Golang Developer
First seen by Alion on Nov 13, 2026.
A highly autonomous senior backend engineer who can take features from concept to production with minimal supervision, uses AI tools in daily development, and can mentor junior developers.
Responsibilities
Design and build scalable backend services and REST APIs
Apply Domain-Driven Design and microservice patterns
Write unit and integration tests
Own services end to end: CI/CD, monitoring, diagnostics, maintenance
Drive AI adoption in the team, run code reviews, mentor juniors
Work with UI developers, PMs, team leads and DevOps
Must have
5+ years of backend development
Golang (target language), or some Go plus strong Python or TypeScript
Strong REST API design
DDD and microservice architecture
Message queues: one of MQTT, Kafka or SQS
SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) plus one NoSQL (MongoDB, Elasticsearch)
Docker and Docker Compose, basic Kubernetes
Cloud: AWS, Azure or GCP
Logging, distributed tracing, monitoring
CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar)
Solid unit and integration testing, mocking
Secure, failsafe coding for regulated environments
Nice to have
GraphQL, gRPC
CQRS, BFF and other UI/backend decoupling patterns
Frontend patterns (MVVM/MVI)