Senior Go Developer

We are looking for an experienced Senior Go Developer to join a team working on a large-scale banking and lending platform. This role is prospective and has been created in line with the company’s planned team expansion.

The project focuses on further development of a credit processing and scoring ecosystem. The goal is to move from evaluating customers separately for each individual credit product toward a unified credit scoring and credit-limit approach, allowing several lending products to be offered within a single customer journey.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services using Go.
• Design and implement functionality within a microservice architecture.
• Develop and maintain REST APIs and integrations with internal and external systems.
• Work with credit-processing, scoring, and multi-product lending workflows.
• Implement reliable data processing and messaging between distributed services.
• Work with PostgreSQL and optimize SQL queries.
• Implement caching and performance optimization using Redis.
• Ensure reliability, fault tolerance, and maintainability of backend services.
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and solution design.
• Support CI/CD and containerized deployment processes.
• Independently deliver assigned development tasks.
• Proactively communicate blockers and risks to avoid delivery delays.
• Participate in troubleshooting, defect resolution, and preparation for production release.

Required Skills & Experience

• 4-5+ years of commercial development experience with Go.
• Strong backend development experience.
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture.
• Practical experience designing and developing REST APIs.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL and confident SQL skills.
• Experience with message brokers such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD, preferably GitLab CI/CD.
• Experience integrating backend services with external systems.
• Understanding of distributed-system reliability and fault-tolerance approaches.
• Experience with caching solutions such as Redis.
• Ability to independently deliver development tasks.
• Strong ownership and proactive communication skills.
• Ability to quickly escalate blockers and work effectively within a delivery-focused team.

Nice to Have

• Previous experience in Banking or FinTech.
• Experience with credit processing / lending platforms.
• Understanding of credit scoring and decision-making systems.
• Experience with BPM or process orchestration solutions.
• Experience working with high-load or transaction-heavy backend systems.

Working Environment

• Remote, full-time position.
• Working hours are aligned with the project time zone.
• Expected working window: approximately 07:00-16:00 or 08:00-17:00 GMT+3; the final schedule is to be confirmed.
• Agile-based delivery environment.