Junior Backend Developer (Go, GraphQL, gRPC)

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Muze is a new social network that helps you find your people and enage in meaniful banter around topics that matter to you. They discover like-minded communities, dive into meaningful discussions, and express their viewpoints freely, while creators cultivate dedicated audiences and monetize through exclusive subscription-based spaces. Join our early-stage startup and be the first to shape the user experience that drives creator success.

The Role: As our Back-End Developer, you’ll be responsible for architecting and building the core of Muze’s infrastructure. You’ll work closely with the front-end team and founder to create a high-performance, real-time backend that scales from MVP to millions of users.

If you love building efficient, scalable, and low-latency APIs, working with Go, GraphQL, and gRPC, and solving complex engineering challenges, this is your opportunity.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, develop, and maintain a scalable, high-performance backend using Go (Golang).
• Build real-time, event-driven services using GraphQL and gRPC.
• Optimize data fetching and caching strategies to deliver lightning-fast responses.
• Implement authentication, authorization, and security best practices.
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and horizontal scalability.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to design APIs that power an engaging user experience.
• Work with PostgreSQL, Redis, and message queues (Kafka/NATS/RabbitMQ) for efficient data processing.
• Define and maintain unit, integration, and load testing strategies to ensure reliability.

Who You Are:

• 1+ years of experience in back-end development, with expertise in Go (Golang).
• Strong experience with GraphQL, gRPC, REST API design, and microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, and message brokers (Kafka/NATS/RabbitMQ).
• Experience in building real-time, event-driven systems.
• Comfortable working with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of caching strategies, load balancing, and distributed systems.
• A problem-solver who loves optimizing performance and scaling systems.
• Startup mindset—comfortable in a fast-paced, early-stage environment.

*How to Apply? *

If you’re obsessed with quality, love breaking code, and want to build the social platform of tomorrow, we want you. Send your resume as a link, linkedin, and a brief cover letter explaining why you’re a great fit for this role to https://muze.so/@muze?intent=chat

Let’s build something amazing together. 🚀