backend engineer golang for tax research platform

The global Tax Research Platform enables professionals to search, browse, and access specialist tax content.

• Build and maintain backend services in Go
• Work on search and content-delivery services
• Contribute to the migration towards Elasticsearch
• Work with indexing, ingestion, and content-processing pipelines
• Design and evolve REST APIs
• Work with microservices and distributed backend systems
• Work with event-driven architectures and messaging
• Take ownership of features from technical design through production
• Improve performance, scalability, and reliability
• Contribute to testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability
• Help modernise legacy systems and reduce technical debt
• Support less experienced engineers while remaining hands-on
• Contribute to stronger engineering standards and technical craftsmanship
• Define approaches, break down work, and drive features or technical problems through delivery

• Strong hands-on production experience with Go
• Proven senior-level backend engineering experience
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of substantial technical work
• Strong Elasticsearch or search-platform experience
• Experience with indexing, ingestion pipelines, or search-related backend systems
• Strong REST API experience
• Experience with microservices and distributed systems
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging
• Strong system design skills
• Experience designing and operating scalable backend systems
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience with CI/CD and automated testing
• Experience with cloud platforms; the environment runs on Azure/AKS, and other cloud backgrounds are relevant
• Experience with monitoring and observability
• Experience modernising or refactoring existing systems
• Strong communication skills
• Fluent English
• Around eight years of backend engineering experience is a useful benchmark, but not a strict requirement; candidates with approximately five or six years can also be relevant if their experience demonstrates genuine seniority and substantial work with Go, Elasticsearch, or search-related systems
• Будет плюсом: Strong experience in search infrastructure, indexing, or ingestion pipelines; related experience in event-driven systems, data processing, or search

• Up to approximately €3,100 net per month
• The role is based in Serbia through Talcom
• The role includes an initial one-week visit to the Netherlands, with occasional follow-up visits when useful for onboarding, planning, or team collaboration
• Candidates may use AI tools during the technical assignment, provided they are fully transparent about which tools were used and how they contributed to the solution