Software Engineer IV (Backend)

We’re looking for a backend engineer with strong experience in Ruby, Python, or PHP who is excited to grow into Go (Golang) while working on real, production-critical systems.

Our core backend services are written in Go and PHP, but we do not expect Go expertise on day one. What matters most is your ability to design systems, reason about data, and operate production software. If you’ve built APIs, background workers, and data-driven applications in Rails, Django, FastAPI, Laravel, Symfony, or custom PHP stacks, this role is a natural next step.

We value engineers who care about clarity, reliability, and business impact over framework novelty. 

We expect engineers at this level to leverage modern tooling — including AI-assisted development — to improve velocity, test coverage, and code quality while maintaining strong engineering judgment.

COMPENSATION: The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $175,000- $200,000. Actual compensation may vary based on work experience, education, and skill level. 

What You’ll Do:

• Build and maintain backend services written in Go
• Design and evolve clean, well-documented APIs
• Own services end-to-end: design, implementation, deployment, and monitoring
• Work on high-throughput, revenue-critical workflows
• Collaborate closely with frontend, data, and product partners
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and retrospectives
• Ramp into Go with support, feedback, and real ownership

How Your Existing Skills Transfer:

Your background in Ruby, Python, or PHP directly applies:

• Designing REST APIs
• Modeling data and working with relational databases
• Building background jobs, queues, and workers
• Understand current and implement new Kafka streams
• Balancing speed, maintainability, and operational risk
  
  

We’ll help you level up on:

• Idiomatic Go and explicit error handling
• Strong typing and simpler abstractions
• Concurrency using goroutines, channels, and context
• Performance tuning and memory awareness
• Building systems that are easier to operate at scale
  

Technical Environment:

• Languages: Go (primary), legacy services in Ruby / Python / PHP
• Frontend: React
• Datastores: PostgreSQL, Redis
• Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes (or equivalent)
• Messaging / Events: Kafka, SQS, or similar
• Observability: Datadog
  
  

•  5+ years of professional backend engineering experience
• Strong experience in Ruby, Python, or PHP
• Track record of owning production systems
• Solid understanding of databases, schemas, and migrations
• Interest in learning Go and systems-level concepts
• Pragmatic approach to architecture and tradeoffs
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
  

Nice to Have

• Exposure to Go (production, side projects, or learning)
• Experience in modernizing legacy PHP or monolithic systems
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures
• Experience in data-heavy or high-volume environments
• Prior on-call or operational ownership
• Compliance experience - SOC 2, NIST, Hipaa
• AWS DevOps and infrastructure experience
  
  

About DMS

Digital Media Solutions (DMS) is a performance-driven digital marketing company that connects consumers and brands through data, technology, and proprietary media solutions. Operating in high-volume, transaction-intensive markets, DMS manages multiple revenue streams, variable margins, and complex unit economics across its portfolio of offerings.

The company partners closely with clients to deliver measurable outcomes, leveraging analytics, optimization, and disciplined execution in dynamic market conditions.