Senior Golang Engineer

Project Description

You will build and run backend services in a high-scale, event-driven microservices environment. The stack is Golang on Kubernetes in AWS. Teams own services end to end with strong CI/CD, automated testing, and observability. You will collaborate daily with product, design, frontend, and data peers to ship reliable platform capabilities and customer-facing experiences.

You will join one of two domains:

• Customer Care Tribe - internal tools for support agents, customer self-service, and core customer service platforms.
• Shopping Foundation Domain - shopping cart services, platform capabilities, and scalable backend for core shopping flows.

The work is platform-heavy and impact-driven. You will improve reliability, performance, and developer experience while delivering features iteratively.

Responsibilities

• Build Go microservices in an event-driven architecture for Customer Care or Shopping Foundation
• Own services end to end: design, coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, on-call
• Operate on Kubernetes in AWS with solid CI/CD automation
• Design REST/gRPC APIs and integrate with Kafka/SNS/SQS, PostgreSQL, and Redis
• Ensure quality and security (unit/integration/contract tests, secure coding, secrets/IAM)
• Strengthen observability and reliability (logs/metrics/traces, SLOs, runbooks, timeouts/retries/idempotency, safe migrations/feature flags/canary)
• Collaborate in Agile with product, design, frontend, and data; document decisions; review code and mentor

Skills Required

Must have

• 5+ years of backend engineering with 3+ years in Go
• Strong grasp of concurrency, networking, and distributed systems
• Production experience with microservices on Kubernetes and Docker
• AWS fundamentals: EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS
• API design and integration using REST and gRPC
• Messaging systems such as Kafka or SNS/SQS
• CI/CD and automated testing: unit, integration, contract
• Observability mindset: logs, metrics, traces, Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry
• Clear communication in English

Nice to have

• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Helm or Argo CD
• PostgreSQL proficiency including schema design and migrations
• Redis caching and basic DynamoDB familiarity
• Performance profiling in Go (pprof) and tuning
• Domain-driven design and eventing patterns
• Experience in large-scale consumer or e-commerce platforms
• Exposure to Kotlin or JVM stack

Engagement Model: Direct Independent Contractor (Please read carefully)

This is an independent contractor opportunity based on a direct contractual relationship between Zoolatech and the individual service provider.

To facilitate this direct partnership, we engage with professionals who are registered and operate as a sole proprietorship, private entrepreneur, or an equivalent self-employment status in your country.

Please note, our model does not accommodate contracts through third-party intermediaries such as agencies, incubators, or umbrella companies. The essential requirement is your ability to enter into a service agreement and invoice Zoolatech directly. This is not an offer of direct employment

Please note that only candidates whose profiles closely match our requirements will be contacted.