Golang Developer
First seen by Alion on Sep 29, 2026.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design and build integration services and APIs in Go, applying appropriate integration and design patterns including message routing, transformation, idempotency, retry/backoff, circuit breaker, saga/compensation, and outbox.
- Build event-driven flows using SQS, SNS, and Lambda, including ordering, deduplication, dead-letter handling, and replay strategy.
- Containerize services and deploy to EKS/Kubernetes; own Helm charts, resource sizing, health/readiness probes, autoscaling, and rollout strategy.
- Model and optimize data access against RDS, including schema design, indexing, connection pooling, transaction boundaries, and migrations.
- Translate integration requirements into interface contracts and sequence flows; document API and event schemas and drive versioning discipline.
- Build observability from day one through structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerting on integration SLAs.
- Use AI-assisted development tooling such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor to accelerate delivery while ensuring AI-generated code meets the required quality and security standards.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing including unit, contract, and integration testing, and non-functional validation including load, failover, and resiliency.
- Provide code review, mentoring, and technical guidance to mid-level developers; raise design risks early to the Tech Lead.
Must-Have Qualifications :
Go Development :
- Go hands-on experience is non-negotiable.
- 3+ years of experience writing production Go.
- Strong understanding of goroutines, channels, context propagation, error handling, and interface-driven design.
- Experience with Go web/API frameworks and gRPC or REST service development.
- Ability to profile and tune Go services for memory, concurrency, and latency.
Enterprise Integration :
- Working knowledge of enterprise integration patterns (Hohpe/Woolf) and their trade-offs, including sync vs. async, orchestration vs. choreography, guaranteed delivery, exactly-once vs. at-least-once, and idempotent consumers.
- Strong understanding of canonical data models for integration, including designing common schema layers, mapping source and target payloads, and determining when canonical models are appropriate versus point-to-point or per-domain contracts.
- Basic knowledge of one or more iPaaS platforms such as MuleSoft, Boomi, Workato, Azure Logic Apps, Informatica, TIBCO, webMethods, or similar, including connector development, mapping/transformation, and orchestration.
- Practical experience with creational, structural, and behavioral design patterns, clean architecture, SOLID, and domain boundaries.
- Experience with API contracts, schema evolution, and backward compatibility.
Cloud & Platform - AWS :
- Hands-on experience with EKS and Kubernetes, including deployments, services, ingress, config/secrets, HPA, and troubleshooting live workloads.
- Strong containerization skills with Docker, including multi-stage builds, image hardening, and small runtime images.
- Knowledge of SQS, SNS, and Lambda in event-driven architectures.
- Understanding of RDS (PostgreSQL or MySQL), including performance tuning.
- Knowledge of IAM, VPC/networking basics, Secrets Manager/Parameter Store, and CloudWatch.
AI in the Development Lifecycle :
- Demonstrable experience using AI coding assistants in real delivery, including the ability to explain what they accelerated, where the tooling failed, and how output was validated.
- Understanding of prompt/context practices for codebases and guardrails including security review, licensing, and hallucination checks.
Engineering Practice :
- Git-based workflow, trunk/branching discipline, and CI/CD using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar.
- Test automation habit covering unit, contract, and integration testing as part of the definition of done.
- Clear written and verbal communication with distributed teams and client stakeholders.
Skills
API, Golang, REST API, AWS, Cloud, Kubernetes, System Integration