Senior Golang Developer

Position Overview :

As a Senior Go Developer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining highperformance backend services and microservices using Golang. Working closely with the Go Integration Architect, you will help deliver scalable APIs and integrations within a distributed, cloudnative environment.

This role also involves mentoring junior engineers, promoting best practices, and contributing to the evolution of our microservices architecture.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and maintain Go-based microservices, RESTful APIs, and gRPC services

• Collaborate with the Integration Architect and product teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions

• Write clean, idiomatic, and well-tested Go code following defined coding and architectural standards

• Implement integrations using GIN framework and gRPC

• Participate in code reviews, share best practices, and drive continuous improvement

• Optimize application performance through profiling, benchmarking, and tuning

• Implement robust error handling, logging, metrics, and distributed tracing

• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and ensure timely resolution

• Mentor junior developers and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture

• Create and maintain technical documentation and knowledge artifacts

Mandatory Skills & Qualifications :

• 7 to 12 years of overall software development experience

• Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience in Golang

Strong mandatory experience with :

• Golang

• gRPC

• GIN framework

• Solid understanding of Go concepts : goroutines, channels, interfaces, error handling, and modules

• Strong experience in microservices architecture and distributed systems

• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience working in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

• Proficiency in RESTful API design and integration patterns

• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis)

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and Agile development practices

• Strong problem-solving and communication skills

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills :

• Exposure to service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)