Senior Golang Software Engineer

We're looking for an experienced Go developer to build and lead development of high-performance microservices. You'll work with modern cloud technologies and help design our distributed systems using gRPC and containerized services.
 

What You'll Do:

• Lead architectural decisions for microservices and mentor junior developers;
• Design and build gRPC APIs using Protocol Buffers;
• Optimize service performance, reliability, and scalability;
• Collaborate with DevOps on deployment and monitoring;
• Establish coding standards and conduct code reviews;
• Work with distributed systems and inter-service communication.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years Go (Golang) production experience;
• 3+ years microservices architecture experience;
• gRPC & Protocol Buffers for service design and RPC communication;
• Docker containerization and service deployment;
• PostgreSQL & Redis for databases and caching;
• Git, CI/CD, and modern development workflows;
• Experience with high-traffic, distributed systems;
• Previous senior/lead developer role preferred.

Technical Knowledge:

• Service mesh architectures and communication patterns;
• Authentication/authorization (JWT, OAuth2);
• API gateway design and traffic management;
• Database per service patterns and data consistency;
• Envoy Proxy configuration and load balancing.

Nice to Have:

• Event-driven architecture experience;
• Buf for Protocol Buffer management and code generation;
• Service discovery and observability tools;
• Cloud-native deployment experience;
• Performance optimization and monitoring.