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The best candidate will be someone who thrives in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and exceptionally dynamic setting and is excited to design and build scalable backend systems, drive architectural improvements, and deliver resilient, high-performance services in production environments.\nStrong technical expertise in Go, distributed systems, and microservices architecture is essential, along with experience in building and operating cloud-native applications in containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes. 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