Backend Engineer - Configuration Team

Job description

Team Mission The Configuration team is the backbone of Text. We store and manage the core data, settings, licenses, and properties that dictate how our applications behave for clients. We build and maintain high-traffic services, public APIs (such as the Configuration API), and background processing mechanisms (Work-Queue) that teams across the entire company rely on. We also handle feature flags and analytics proxies (Amplitude). Our work directly impacts the core ecosystem of TextApp, ensuring that client settings and cross-domain tasks function flawlessly. About the Role: We’re looking for a solid Backend Engineer (Go) with a strong sense of ownership to join the Configuration team. This is a role for a highly autonomous engineer - we need someone who has mastered the fundamentals, brings initiative, and doesn't just wait for step-by-step instructions. In practice, your day-to-day will be a healthy mix of driving new feature development, maintaining existing systems, and refactoring legacy code. While Go is our primary language for new services, you will also navigate and maintain parts of our ecosystem built in Node.js as we continue our migration and refactoring efforts . We d...