Back End Developer

Job Title: Microservices Backend Engineer (Python / Go)

Location: U.S. (Remote-friendly)

U.S. citizenship is required for this role due to federal government contracting requirements.

Candidates with prior experience in cybersecurity, regulated environments, or security-focused organizations will be given priority—please highlight this experience in your application or reach out directly.

About RapidFort

RapidFort delivers hardened, production-ready container images and cloud-native security solutions used by enterprises and government organizations to secure modern infrastructure at scale. Our platform operates in high-performance, security-sensitive environments where reliability, observability, and scalability are critical.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate high-performance, scalable microservices that power RapidFort’s platform. This role requires deep expertise in Python and Go (Golang) , strong distributed systems knowledge, and hands-on experience running production services in Kubernetes-based environments.

You will work closely with product, frontend, security, and DevOps teams to deliver secure, reliable backend services that support real-time analytics, automation, and cloud-native workloads.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend microservices using Python and Go
• Build and evolve RESTful APIs used across internal and customer-facing systems
• Collaborate with Product and Frontend teams to define API contracts and system integrations
• Deploy, monitor, and scale services in Kubernetes environments
• Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms (JWT, API auth, IAM)
• Write comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical planning
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues with a focus on reliability and performance
• Continuously improve system performance, security posture, and developer productivity

Required Qualifications

Core Experience

• 3+ years of professional backend software development experience
• Significant hands-on experience building and operating microservices in production
• Proven experience working with distributed systems at scale
• Experience deploying and operating services on AWS, Azure, or GCP

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

• Python (expert level; FastAPI, Flask, or Django)
• Go (Golang) (expert level; high-concurrency microservices)

Microservices & APIs

• RESTful API design, development, and deployment
• Service-to-service communication patterns

Security

• API authentication and authorization
• JWT , OAuth-style flows, and identity providers (e.g., Keycloak )

Datastores

• Real-time analytics systems ( ClickHouse )
• Relational databases ( MySQL ) with query optimization
• NoSQL / in-memory stores ( Redis )

Infrastructure

• Kubernetes for container orchestration, deployment, and scaling

Testing

• Strong testing discipline across unit, integration, and E2E layers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments
• Strong observability practices (metrics, logging, tracing)
• Expertise with Git and collaborative development workflows
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and streaming systems
• Performance tuning and optimization in Python and Go
• Security best practices in API and backend design

Why RapidFort

• Work on security-critical systems used by enterprise and government customers
• Build high-scale, real-world cloud-native infrastructure
• Highly technical, collaborative engineering culture
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and growth opportunities