Go Backend Engineer – Distributed Systems / Realtime / Messaging

About the Role

Turium AI is building Qale — an AI-native communication platform designed for the future of realtime collaboration and intelligent communication.

We are looking for a strong Go Backend Engineer to help build scalable backend systems powering realtime messaging, WebSockets, distributed services, event-driven systems, and modern infrastructure.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving challenging problems around performance, concurrency, scale, reliability, and low-latency systems.

What You’ll Work On

• Build high-performance backend services in Go / Golang
• Develop realtime communication systems (messaging, notifications, presence, streaming)
• Design and optimise WebSocket infrastructure
• Build distributed, event-driven backend architectures
• Design scalable APIs, services, and internal platform components
• Improve system performance, observability, reliability, and scalability
  

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain backend services using Go
• Build distributed systems with strong focus on scalability and resilience
• Develop realtime backend capabilities using WebSockets / PubSub patterns
• Work with asynchronous workflows, queues, and event processing
• Optimise performance, concurrency, memory usage, and system efficiency
• Design APIs and service integrations
• Collaborate with product, frontend, AI, and infrastructure teams
• Contribute to architecture and engineering best practices
  
  

Required Skills & Experience

Strong experience in:

• Go / Golang
• Distributed Systems
• WebSockets / Realtime Systems
• Messaging / Event-Driven Architecture
• Concurrency, Goroutines, Channels
• High-scale backend development
• REST APIs / gRPC
• Databases, caching, and performance optimisation
• Experience with some of the following is highly desirable:
• Kafka / NATS / Redis / PubSub systems
• PostgreSQL / Redis / ScyllaDB
• Docker / Kubernetes
• gRPC / Protobuf
• AWS / GCP / Cloud infrastructure
• Prometheus / Grafana / Observability tooling

Nice to Have

Experience building:

• Messaging or collaboration platforms
• High-throughput backend systems
  Realtime applications
• SaaS / infrastructure / platform products
• AI, communication, or developer tooling products

Why Join Us

• Work on a next-generation AI communication platform
• Solve technically challenging distributed systems problems
• High ownership and engineering impact
• Opportunity to help shape core platform architecture
• Fast-moving, product-driven engineering environment