
Sr. Backend Engineer (Remote) at Mode Mobile
Mode: Fast-growing earn-as-you-go software enabling equitable financial opportunity.
Team of 111$11.47M total funding
Own and stabilize a newly acquired production consumer VPN backend and Go networking engine; focus on understanding inherited systems, closing technical and security gaps, and building foundations to scale a VPN with 10M+ installs, 1,000+ servers in 45+ countries, including restrictive network environments; core work includes hardening and extending a Go library cross-compiled for Android and iOS that embeds a userspace TCP/IP stack and drives Shadowsocks and WireGuard clients; own account, subscription, and server-selection APIs, WireGuard peer/configuration pipeline, and integrations with payments, analytics, attribution, and observability providers; establish automated testing, API docs, and CI/CD where missing; work closely with mobile frontend, DevOps/network engineering, product, and operations; must have 5+ years senior backend experience supporting native mobile apps; must: strong Go, networking/VPN expertise, Python, Node.js, PostgreSQL, document store, Redis, AWS, Docker, Terraform/Ansible familiarity, REST/OpenAPI, JWT/OAuth, rate limiting, GitHub PR workflows, testing/CI/CD, Stripe and mobile IAP validation, analytics/attribution tooling, Datadog, applied security engineering, daily use of AI coding agents; bonus: consumer VPN/privacy backend, censorship-circumvention tooling, wireguard-go/gVisor/lwIP/Shadowsocks in Go, multi-provider infra and Cloudflare, event-driven workflows, GDPR/CCPA/SOC 2, Kotlin/Swift, acquired-product integrations
Remote anywhere