Backend Software Engineer Python Go

Build Merge infrastructure in San Francisco using Python, Go, and SQL across backend engineering teams. Help deliver reliable, production-ready systems.

Merge is hiring mid-level through staff-level backend engineers for its Foundations team. You will support infrastructure focused on scale, performance, and reliability. The work includes architecture, roadmapping, project leadership, and peer support across engineering, design, product, and business operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in roadmapping and architecture discussions
• Write readable, maintainable, production-ready code
• Lead large projects from inception through production
• Unblock engineers, designers, product managers, and business operators

Requirements:

• Three to seven-plus years of software engineering experience
• Experience with Python and Go
• Extensive knowledge of SQL databases, preferably Postgres
• Ability to handle ambiguous technical challenges
• Startup or SaaS experience preferred

Bring Python, Go, SQL, and infrastructure experience to Merge’s San Francisco Foundations engineering team.