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title: 'Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) at nahc.io'
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# Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) at nahc.io

- **Company:** nahc.io
- **Location:** Hong Kong
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-12-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/nahc/39c6544e-0b84-41bd-8ffd-ddafe20dac09

## Job description

Our client is seeking a seasoned Backend Engineer to help build high-performance, cloud-native infrastructure to support our research, trading, and data pipelines. This role is crucial to enabling real-time data ingestion and processing workflows, and ensuring our systems can meet the demands of a high-uptime, low-latency trading environment.

## What You Will Do

- Lead the design and development of robust high-performance, cloud-native backend systems using Go that support real-time data processing and low-latency workflows.
- Drive engineering excellence through code quality, best practices, and mentorship of other team members.
- Work closely with trading, product, and infrastructure teams to understand system requirements and deliver performant solutions.
- Take ownership of production services, ensuring reliability, observability, and performance tuning. Optimize systems performance and ensure system stability, reliability, and security.
- Contribute to infrastructure automation and CI/CD improvements to support rapid deployment and operational agility.
- Conduct in-depth code reviews, lead technical discussions, and influence engineering culture and standards.
- Implement automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and participate in code reviews and design discussions.
- Deploy and manage services leveraging cloud-native tools and best practices
- Monitor, debug, and troubleshoot production systems and be a part of the on-call incident response team in a high-uptime environment

## What You Will Need

- 5+ years of backend development experience, including 3+ years with Go in production-grade systems.
- Experience leading large-scale system design and mentoring engineers on engineering best practices.
- Strong knowledge of concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization in Go.
- Proven track record of designing and deploying microservice architectures in high-availability, high-throughput environments.
- Solid understanding of message queues, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous processing.
- Strong understanding of microservice architecture and REST/gRPC APIs.
- Strong understanding of networking data transmission protocols (TCP, UDP, WSS, etc.)
- Experience building and deploying cloud-native applications
- Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration engines (e.g., ECS, Kubernetes).
- Proficiency with message brokers (e.g., Kafka) and distributed systems.
- Knowledge of data storage technologies such as PostgreSQL, Redis, and time-series databases.

## About nahc.io

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: A full-service recruitment agency providing talent acquisition and human capital solutions for startups and innovative companies across Asia.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped, no funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Hong Kong, Hong Kong (with offices in Singapore and Taipei)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Lawrence Chan (Co-founder & CEO), Cicely Leung (Co-founder & Head of Recruitment – Tech & Digital), Zoie Lin (Co-founder & Head of Recruitment – Commercial & Operations), Charlotte Wong (Co-founder & Head of Client Engagement & Partnerships)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Human Resources Services (Recruitment & Staffing)
- **Target customers**: B2B – startups, innovative companies, and businesses undergoing transformation in Asia
- **Mission/purpose**: “To empower people to make the best informed decision for their career or for their business in talent recruitment.” The company aims to change the recruitment industry by offering a non-transactional, relationship-driven experience.

## Products & Services
- **Talent Acquisition**: Core recruitment services covering Sales, Marketing, Information Technology, Human Resources, Strategy & Operations, Finance, and Web3. The firm vets and shares candidate profiles quickly (48-hour turnaround) and boasts a 94% probation pass rate for placed candidates.
- **Bespoke Human Capital Solutions**: Advisory services for scaling companies, including remote worker hiring and remote office setup, employer branding, HR systems/process setup, and startup hiring/scaling advisory.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (privately held)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue estimated between $1M–$5M (per LinkedIn company data)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors identified; the firm appears to be bootstrapped. Key partnerships are not publicly listed.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - LinkedIn followers: 1,825 (+9.2% year-over-year)
  - Expanding presence: active hiring for a Business Development Manager in Taipei (Taiwan) as of early 2026
  - 11,000+ candidates in their talent community across APAC
  - However, headcount declined 22.2% YoY to 4 employees (as of latest data), indicating a lean, focused team.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Relationship-first approach**: Emphasizes long-term relationships over transactional placements, building trust with both clients and candidates.
- **Asia-specific expertise**: Deep understanding of the Asian startup ecosystem, with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and now Taipei.
- **High-quality placements**: 94% of placed candidates pass probation, and the firm provides a 48-hour profile turnaround.
- **Bespoke solutions**: Offers not just recruitment but full human capital advisory (HR systems, employer branding, remote setup) – a differentiator for early-stage companies.

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic expansion**: Moving into new markets like Taiwan (Taipei) while solidifying presence in Hong Kong and Singapore.
- **Scaling human capital solutions**: Growing the advisory side of the business (HR systems, remote hiring, employer branding) to become a holistic partner for startups.
- **Investing in people**: Committed to continuous skills training for its own team, aiming to build a talent advisory force that can provide genuine, ethical recommendations.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: “People-first” ethos with a strong emphasis on ethical conduct, transparency, and long-term relationships. The team is small (4 people), offering direct mentorship from the founders.
- **Growth opportunities**: The firm “invests in our people through continuous skills training and new opportunities.” Internships are available for university students, providing hands-on experience mentored by founders.
- **Work environment**: Offices in Hong Kong (Sheung Wan) and Singapore (Vision Exchange). The Taipei role is listed as on-site. Remote/hybrid policy is not explicitly stated, but the company advises on remote hiring for clients.
- **Unique perk**: The company uses AI tools to support hiring (resume review, analysis) but notes that final decisions are made by humans – transparency in their own hiring process.
- **Impact**: As a small team, employees can directly shape the company’s growth and have a tangible impact on candidates’ careers and clients’ businesses.

## Sources
1. [nahc.io](https://www.nahc.io/)
2. [nahc.io/about-us](https://www.nahc.io/about-us)
3. [nahc.io/join-us](https://www.nahc.io/join-us)
4. [linkedin.com/company/nahc-io](https://linkedin.com/company/nahc-io)
5. [jobs.lever.co/nahc](https://jobs.lever.co/nahc)

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