Senior Backend Engineer (Golang/Platform)

About the Role / Overview

The role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing backend and infrastructure solutions to support business growth.

Responsibilities / What You'll Do

• Design, implement, and optimize backend and infrastructure solutions to support business growth. Deliver at least one major feature or system enhancement per quarter that improves performance, scalability, or maintainability.
• Work with product, data, vehicle and infrastructure teams to design and implement solutions that align with business needs. Provide actionable recommendations and technical feasibility assessments within agreed timelines.
• Monitor and improve system health, proactively addressing performance bottlenecks and outages. Reduce system downtime by at least 5% annually through incident resolution and preventative measures.
• Provide code reviews, technical guidance, and mentorship to junior engineers. Conduct at least one structured knowledge-sharing session per quarter and set individual development goals for mentees.

This role contributes to Bird's mission of making cities more livable by empowering people to move freely and creating a cleaner, more connected future through micromobility solutions that reduce gas-powered car usage and lower carbon emissions.

• Bachelor’s in STEM (or equivalent) with 5+ years of professional backend experience.
• Professional proficiency in Golang and JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, or Scala).
• Proven track record building distributed systems and real-time data pipelines (Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS) for IoT or high-volume telemetry.
• Hands-on experience with communication protocols and interfacing with IoT devices.
• Expertise in CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions) and Observability (Datadog/Grafana) to proactively monitor, debug, and optimize large-scale systems.

• Budgeted salary range: $137,000 USD - $185,000 USD
• Plenty of time off to relax and recharge, plus a wellness resource to help you wind down
• A work-from-home stipend
• An employer-paid healthcare package
• Bird ride credits to get you where you need to be
• Inclusive, open, and diverse work environment

Bird is a global leader in micromobility dedicated to transforming the way the world moves one ride at a time, with cleaner, affordable, and on-demand mobility solutions available in over 200 cities worldwide to help cities meet their shared mobility and climate goals.