At MacPaw, we craft software that makes everyday tech life simpler, cleaner, and more enjoyable. From globally loved products like CleanMyMac and Setapp to emerging cybersecurity tools like ClearVPN and Moonlock, we are building a product ecosystem that reaches millions of people worldwide.
We believe humans and technology can reach their greatest potential together. By fusing high engineering standards, thoughtful design, and practical AI, we rethink how people interact with their devices and shape the daily tech routines of the future.
Working at MacPaw means owning outcomes, not just tasks. We build for global scale from day one, giving you the trust, freedom, and room to experiment.
In our team, we challenge ideas directly, support each other genuinely, and build software that makes a meaningful difference — both in the tech world and beyond.
For This Role
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.
We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) to build the Ledger and Promotion domains from the ground up. On the Ledger side that means commission terms, revenue splits, and the contracts between developers, sellers, and the platform. On the Promotion side it means coupons, promo codes, redeem codes, and gift cards, and the acquisition and gifting models built on them.
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:
- Own the solution design end to end: take an ambiguous business task, propose how the system should evolve, defend it in a peer design review, and then build it
- Model new commercial concepts for Ledger and Promotion capabilities so they stay consistent with the rest of the platform's domain model
- Work closely with PMs, EMs, and cross-functional teams to clarify requirements, handle edge cases, and find the most effective implementation paths
- 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)
- Write clean, efficient, and scalable code using Go and PHP (Symfony)
Skills you’ll need to bring:
- 5+ years building production services in Golang
- Solution and system design as a primary skill
- DDD in practice: bounded contexts, aggregates, when to split a service, and why a shared database isn't a boundary
- Confident work with PostgreSQL/relational databases: schema design, complex SQL queries, migrations, and performance optimization (indexes, profiling)
- Experience with RabbitMQ (or similar message queues): pub/sub and work queue patterns, producers/consumers, basic configuration concepts
- API design: resource modeling, versioning, idempotency keys, error contracts, backward compatibility for public APIs
- Go depth: concurrency and graceful shutdown, detecting data races and goroutine leaks, pprof, table-driven testing
- Docker, plus working knowledge of Kubernetes objects and probes
- CI/CD, feature flags, trunk-based development, safe migrations
- Observability: logs, metrics, traces, SLI/SLO/SLA
- Awareness of secure coding principles (OWASP)
- At least an intermediate English and fluent Ukrainian
As a plus:
- Workflow orchestration (Temporal or similar) for compensation and retries in long-running money flows
- PHP (Symfony), since parts of the current system still live there
- Terraform, Redis, MongoDB
Meet a fellow MacPawian
Petro Shcherbatiuk
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 first working month. For those abroad, you can receive a yearly Medical insurance allowance as compensation for managing your medical expenses.
Flexible working hours
- You can choose a schedule that is comfortable for you. No one here tracks your clock in/out because MacPaw is built on trust and cooperation.
Space to grow both professionally and personally
- Education opportunities to grow both hard and soft skills, annual development reviews, and internal community.
Teams we are proud of
- We build honest, transparent, and reliable relationships within teams. Every Macpawian can improve processes and implement their ideas. We encourage open and constructive feedback and provide training for Macpawians on giving and receiving feedback.
Office designed for people (and pets)
- Our office has it all: a spacious workplace with enough room for sitting up, lying down, and running around; a gym for recreation; cozy kitchens; a sleeping/meditation room; and a terrace with a view where we throw summer parties. Also, we have two cats living in the office.
Time-off policy that covers life’s needs
- Convenient personal time-off policy to help you take care of essential matters in your personal life, and parental leaves. On top of all that, sabbaticals are open after 5 years of being with MacPaw.
Join social initiatives with MacPawCares
- MacPaw participates in numerous humanitarian aid and charity projects across many fields, and you are welcome to jump in to make the world a better place.
We’re an equal-opportunity employer. Here is a safe place for applicants of all backgrounds
- We are hiring talented humans. Meaning with all our variety of backgrounds and identities, including service members and veterans, women, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals with disabilities, and other often underrepresented groups. MacPaw does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
- Some benefits are under development, and new adjustments are possible.
