Senior Software Engineer - Backend (GO)

About Impact Analytics Impact Analytics is an agentic-first AI software company transforming retail merchandising through cutting-edge AI, LLMs, and Generative AI technologies. As a fast-growing Series D company with deployments across five continents, it is building both industry-leading merchandising solutions and foundational AI agents that are redefining how retail decisions are made. What makes Impact Analytics unique is its combination of deep retail domain expertise, strong innovation culture, and global presence. It is one of the few India-born AI companies recognized globally by organizations like Fortune, Gartner, and the Inc. 5000.For candidates looking to work on next-generation AI products with global scale and real-world impact, Impact Analytics is an exciting place to build your career. Here’s a link to our website: www.impactanalytics.co. The impact that you will be making We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Backend to design and build scalable backend systems that power Android-first mobile applications. The ideal candidate will have strong backend engineering expertise, experience supporting mobile applications, and a passion for building high-performance, reliable distributed systems that operate efficiently under constrained network conditions. You will work closely with Android developers and cross-functional teams to build APIs and backend services that enable seamless mobile experiences, including offline synchronization, scalability, and high availability. What lands you in this role Must have 4–7 years of hands-on backend engineering experience building production-grade services and APIs. Strong programming experience in Go (Golang) , with solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and software engineering principles. Experience designing high-performance and scalable backend services . Strong understanding of REST/gRPC APIs, API design, authentication, authorization, and service-to-service communication . Experience supporting offline-first and intermittently connected applications , including synchronization, conflict resolution, idempotency, retries, and eventual consistency. Strong experience with databases, caching, key-value stores, and messaging/event-driven systems . Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, scalability, and reliability . Experience handling high transaction volumes and large datasets . Strong understanding of observability , including logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring. Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work closely with Mobile/Android, Architecture, Product, and DevOps/Cloud teams . Good to Have Experience with GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes . Experience with Kafka, Pub/Sub , or similar messaging systems. Experience designing mobile synchronization systems , including delta sync, batching, and background synchronization. Experience optimizing APIs for mobile network…