Go Architect / Solution Architect (Go)

Andersen is hiring a Go Architect / Solution Architect (Go) for a project building scalable distributed systems and high-performance platforms supporting business growth and innovation.

Our customer is an international organization operating in the financial and protection services domain. The company provides a diverse portfolio of customer-oriented solutions across multiple business areas and markets. With a strong focus on digital capabilities, operational excellence, and long-term development, the organization continuously invests in technology, process improvement, and service innovation to support evolving customer and business needs.

The project focuses on building and evolving a high-performance, scalable distributed platform designed to support complex business operations and rapid product growth. The system is developed in Go, with a strong emphasis on efficient concurrency models, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and evolving scalable distributed systems in Go, choosing appropriate concurrency models and ensuring a balance between performance and maintainability.
• Collaborating with Product Managers to refine high-level business goals into actionable technical plans and delivery roadmaps.
• Anticipating and highlighting edge cases, risks, and technical constraints early in the planning phase to avoid issues during implementation.
• Representing the engineering team in meetings with external stakeholders, explaining technical topics in clear, business-centric terms and challenging unrealistic requirements.
• Leading and performing code reviews for other senior engineers, ensuring high standards for code quality, resilience, and reliability.
• Driving improvements in CI/CD pipelines and engineering processes, helping the team ship high-quality code faster and safely.

Must-haves:

• Software development experience for 7+ years.
• Hands-on, production-level experience with Go for 4+ years, including deep understanding of goroutines, channels, context, memory model, and concurrency patterns.
• Higher education in Computer Science (software development, etc.).
• Extensive experience working with AI and the process of implementing/configuring it within a team.
• Experience in fintech, banking, or other regulated/high-compliance domains.
• Proven experience designing distributed, microservice-based, and/or high-load systems.
• Strong expertise in API design (REST and/or gRPC), including versioning and backward compatibility.
• Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL), including schema design, query optimization, transactions.
• Experience with message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS) and event-driven architecture.
• Strong knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience with system design for high performance and maintainability.
• Hands-on experience CI/CD tools and pipelines (e.g. GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.).
• Understanding of system design principles: scalability, fault tolerance, security, observability (metrics, logging, tracing).
• Experience conducting architecture reviews and writing design.
• Level of English - from Advanced and above.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, ClickHouse) or caching layers (Redis).
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and cloud-native architecture patterns.
• Experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) or Event-Driven Architecture.
• Prior experience in a formal Architect, Staff Engineer, or Principal Engineer role.
• Familiarity with additional languages (Java, Python, C++) for cross-team collaboration.
• Experience integrating AI/LLM components into production systems.
• Contributions to open-source Go projects or internal frameworks/libraries.
• Experience with SRE practices (SLI/SLO, error budgets, incident response).
• Relevant certifications (AWS/GCP/Azure architecture certifications).

Reasons why this job would be interesting to you:

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Job conditions - you can work both fully remotely and from the office or can choose a hybrid variant.
• Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.
• The opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 USD per month, depending on the level of expertise, which will be included in the annual bonus, by participating in the company's activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• Private health insurance and compensation for sports activities.

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