Senior Backend Engineer, Golang

Company

BiTaksi

Date Posted

12-06-2025

Location

Kağıthane, Istanbul, Turkey

About bitaksi:

bitaksi is Turkey's leading taxi-hailing app, transforming urban mobility with innovative technology. For over 12 years, we've grown from a small startup to a pivotal part of people's daily lives, providing safe, easy, and modern transportation solutions.


Company Vision:

Our vision is to transform the way people move by leveraging cutting-edge technology and creating seamless experiences for both riders and drivers. We aim to be the preferred transportation platform of choice, setting new industry standards and reshaping urban mobility.


Why Choose bitaksi:

Impactful Work: By joining bitaksi, you will have the opportunity to work on projects that have a direct impact on the lives of millions of people. Your contributions will help shape the future of transportation and make a difference in the way people navigate their daily lives.

Innovation and Technology: Be part of a dynamic team that leverages the latest technology to develop user-centric solutions in a rapidly evolving industry.


Responsibilities:

  • Play an active role in the development team to design, develop, and deploy scalable and efficient backend solutions
  • Participate in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback to improve code quality and performance
  • Excel in improving monitoring processes using tools like New Relic.
  • Take an active role in enhancing software standards across the team.
  • Collaborate closely with product managers and other stakeholders to define project goals, scope, and deliverables.
  • Write clean and well-documented code following the industry best practices and coding standards with support of experienced teammates

Skills and Knowledge:

  • 7+ years experience delivering production code for backend services.
  • Experience with Golang
  • Knowledge of payment systems or integration with payment gateways is a strong plus.
  • Experience with HTTP/REST and web technologies like gRPC, Protobufs
  • Excellent knowledge of one of the databases such as PostgreSQL, Mongo, MYSQL
  • Knowledge of data-driven architecture and systems design
  • Knowledge of the philosophy of cloud and an experience maintaining cloud native services (AWS)
  • Experience of designing, building, scaling and maintaining production services, and knowledge about how to compose a service oriented architecture.
  • Experience creating, managing and maintaining Micro Services.
  • Hands-on experience with tools like Datadog, Grafana, New Relic, Prometheus, Kibana, etc.


What we offer?

  • Open communication, teamwork and strong company culture of continuous development
  • Competitive salary
  • Private health insurance (family included)
  • Meal card
  • Monthly IstanbulCard reimbursement
  • We care about your wellbeing; free psychological counseling, legal advice, financial advice etc.
  • Team and company activities for motivation
  • Discounted gym membership
  • Online education platforms


Join Us: Become part of a team that’s redefining urban mobility. Together, let’s create innovative solutions that enhance the lives of millions.