Senior GoLang Developer

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services using Go
• Architect distributed systems and microservices with a focus on scalability, reliability, and observability
• Optimize performance across APIs, data pipelines, and service-to-service communication
• Implement best practices for code quality, testing, CI/CD, and cloud-native deployment
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, DevOps, and frontend teams to deliver end-to-end solutions
• Lead technical decisions around system design, data modeling, and infrastructure
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, providing code reviews and architectural guidance
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, including performance bottlenecks and distributed system failures
• Contribute to technical roadmaps and long-term engineering strategy

Required Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of backend engineering experience, with 3+ years of hands-on Go development
• Strong understanding of concurrency patterns, goroutines, channels, and Go memory management
• Experience building microservices and distributed systems at scale
• Proficiency with REST, gRPC, GraphQL, or event-driven architectures
• Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, caching layers, and message queues
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, idiomatic Go code
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to lead technical discussions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems
• Background in DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, or SRE practices
• Experience with Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging systems
• Familiarity with domain-driven design (DDD) or clean architecture
• Contributions to open-source Go projects