Senior Golang Developer

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Senior Golang Developer to design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and cloud-native applications. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Go (Golang), Microservices Architecture, APIs, Distributed Systems, and Cloud Platforms. The role requires technical leadership, mentoring developers, and driving best practices across the software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable backend services using Golang.
• Architect and implement Microservices-based applications.
• Build and maintain RESTful and gRPC APIs.
• Develop highly available, fault-tolerant, and distributed systems.
• Lead technical design discussions and code reviews.
• Optimize applications for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Architects, DevOps, and QA teams.
• Mentor junior developers and promote engineering best practices.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Ensure application security, observability, and operational excellence.

Required Skills

Core Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency in Golang with 4+ years of hands-on experience.
• Overall 6-10 years of software development experience.
• Expertise in Go routines, channels, concurrency patterns, and memory management.
• Strong understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, and Design Patterns.
• Experience building REST APIs and gRPC services.
• Experience with Microservices and Event-Driven Architectures.
• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented and Domain-Driven Design principles.

Cloud & DevOps

• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.

Databases

• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• MongoDB
• Redis
• Elasticsearch

Messaging & Streaming

• Apache Kafka
• RabbitMQ
• NATS

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Service Mesh technologies such as Istio.
• Knowledge of Observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, and OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with API Gateway solutions.
• Exposure to Serverless architectures.
• Knowledge of security standards, OAuth2, JWT, and authentication mechanisms.
• Experience in performance tuning and capacity planning.

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Ability to drive technical design and architecture decisions.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience mentoring development teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Educational Qualification

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.

Good-to-Have

• Experience working on large-scale distributed systems.
• Exposure to FinTech, Retail, E-commerce, or Enterprise platforms.
• Experience with cloud-native and containerized applications.
• Certification in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, or Cloud Technologies.