MacPaw is a software company that develops and distributes software for macOS and iOS. Today, we have 20 million active users across all our products. At MacPaw, we believe humans and technology can reach their greatest potential together. MacPaw is proud to be Ukrainian. The support and development of Ukraine are significant parts of the company’s culture. MacPaw gathers open-minded people who support each other and aspire to change the world around us.
MacPaw is building the next generation of its Setapp Marketplace—a platform where developers distribute Mac, iOS, and Web applications to a wide audience around the world. Billing is at the core of this platform, powering how customers pay, how vendors earn, and how the business scales globally.
We’re looking for a Senior Back-end Engineer (Golang) to join our team and work on subscription and billing-related functionality within a product environment.
You’ll work with complex business logic, third-party integrations, and existing systems, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams. We’re looking for someone curious, proactive, and responsible who enjoys learning, taking ownership, and improving solutions.
Our back-end stack: Go, Temporal, PHP 8.0+ (Symfony Components, Doctrine ORM); PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ; PHPUnit; Cloud-Native: AWS, GCP, K8s, Docker.
In this role, you will:
Analyze business ideas, validate technical feasibility, and design architecture blueprints before starting the development phase
Write clean, efficient, and scalable code using Go and PHP (Symfony)
Gradually refactor and migrate parts of the monolith into independent, high-performance services
Take full responsibility for code quality by writing unit/functional tests and actively participating in E2E testing (our engineers drive quality alongside QA)
Work closely with PMs, EMs, and cross-functional teams to clarify requirements, handle edge cases, and find the most effective implementation paths
Skills you’ll need to bring:
5+ years of hands-on experience with Golang
System Design & Architecture
Confident work with PostgreSQL/relational databases: schema design, complex SQL queries, migrations, and performance optimization (indexes, profiling)
Experience with Docker in development and runtime environments; ability to work with Docker images/containers and Docker Compose locally
Experience with RabbitMQ (or similar message queues): pub/sub and work queue patterns, producers/consumers, basic configuration concepts
Basic understanding of Kubernetes concepts and common objects (Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps)
CI/CD pipelines and a basic understanding of cloud or infrastructure tooling
Basic testing practices (unit/integration) and awareness of secure coding principles (OWASP)
At least an intermediate level of English & fluent Ukrainian
As a plus:
Workflow orchestration tools such as Temporal or similar solutions
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
NoSQL databases and caching solutions (e.g. MongoDB, Redis)
What We Offer:
We are a Ukrainian company, and we stand with Ukraine against the russian aggression We maintain workplaces for the mobilized Macpawians and provide financial support to colleagues or their families affected by the war. Here, you can also read about the MacPaw Foundation, which intends to help save the lives of Ukrainian defenders and provide relief to as many civilians as possible.
We are committed to our veterans Our Veteran Career and Empowerment Program is designed to ensure our veterans and active military personnel receive the recognition, support, and opportunities they deserve.
Hybrid work model Whether to work remotely or at the hub is entirely up to you. If you decide to mix it, our Kyiv office, which works as a coworking space, is open around the clock. The office is supplied with UPS and Starlink for an uninterrupted work process.
Your health always comes first We guarantee medical insurance starting on your firs
