Senior Go Engineer

We are seeking to bring on board a Senior Go Engineer. You will be responsible for leading the development of web applications using Go. You’ll work on the back-end, focusing on delivering efficient, scalable, and robust solutions.

Responsibilities

• Exceptional problem solving skills to identify and solve complex technical issues efficiently.
• Communicates effectively with team members, stakeholders and non-technical persons and also collaborates well within a team, sharing knowledge and mentoring junior developers.
• Shows a strong commitment to learning and staying up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Collaborate with front-end developers, UI/UX designers, and other team members to ensure seamless integration between the front-end and back-end.
• Build efficient, reusable, and scalable code while following best practices for security and performance.
• Develop RESTful APIs to power front-end applications and third-party integrations.
• Mentor junior developers and provide technical guidance to the team.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging to ensure the quality of the applications.

Technology Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as backend developer.
• Deep understanding of Go programming language, including concurrency patterns (goroutines, channels), memory management, and performance optimization.
• Experience building and deploying scalable and resilient backend services and APIs using Go frameworks (e.g., Gin, Echo, Fiber).
• Emphasizes the importance of testing, automated testing frameworks and writing unit tests.
• Extensive experience with Playwright for end-to-end testing of web applications is a plus.
• Proven ability to design, develop, and maintain robust and reliable automated test suites.
• Can design RESTful APIs, architect software systems (taking into consideration scalability, maintainability and performance).
• Familiar with design patterns, microservices and other software design principles.
• Familiar with DevOps practices (CI, CD and deployments pipelines). Utilizes tools like Git, Docker, and Kubernetes for development and deployment.
• Previous experience with high volume, high scale distributed systems.
• Experience working with integration of payment processing platforms, design, develop and optimize API connections to enable smooth payment workflows.
• Understanding of cloud-native architectures and best practices.