Senior GoLang Developer

Role Overview

Senior GoLang Developer to lead the development of scalable, resilient backend services in a 100% remote full-time role.

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
• Apply best practices for code quality, testing, CI/CD, and cloud-native deployments
• Collaborate with product, DevOps, and frontend teams to deliver end-to-end solutions
• Lead technical decisions for system design, data modeling, and infrastructure
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers (code reviews and architectural guidance)
• Troubleshoot complex production issues (performance bottlenecks, distributed system failures)
• Contribute to technical roadmaps and long-term engineering strategy

Requirements

• 5–8+ years backend engineering experience, including 3+ years hands-on Go
• Strong concurrency fundamentals: 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 and containers: AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes
• Strong database knowledge: SQL/NoSQL, caching layers, and message queues
• Familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Ability to write clean, idiomatic, maintainable Go
• Strong communication skills and ability to lead technical discussions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems
• Background in DevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, or SRE
• Messaging experience: Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ, or similar
• Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) or clean architecture
• Contributions to open-source Go projects