Senior Golang Engineer (LATAM Remote)

This is a remote contract for a US-based client. The contractor works from anywhere in Latin America for a US team during US business hours.

About the Company

An established US-based logistics technology company running a high-volume operational platform built on cloud-native, event-driven foundations. They are continuing a multi-year push to modernize their backend stack. The hiring team is US-based, and you will work directly with them from your home country.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship production Go services that run reliably at scale
• Own the backend API surface — gRPC contracts, message schemas, versioning
• Build and tune Kafka-based event pipelines (producers, consumers, ordering, replay)
• Build on AWS with a serverless-first lean where it makes sense, using the AWS SDK for Go
• Review code, mentor engineers, and shape engineering standards
• Contribute to incident retrospectives and feed the lessons back into platform practice

Requirements

• At least 5 years of production Go in a backend or distributed-systems role
• gRPC, including schema design and breaking-change management
• Kafka in production
• AWS, with hands-on experience using the AWS SDK for Go
• Strong written and spoken English — daily collaboration with a US-based team
• Comfortable owning service design end to end

Nice to Have

• Exposure to AI/ML integration in backend services
• Background in logistics, freight, supply chain, or other high-throughput operational platforms

Pay

$30 USD per hour ($5,200 USD per month)

Schedule

12+ months, long-term engagement. Work during US business hours.