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Title: Golang Developer
Length: 6-months contract
Rate: £400 per day (Outside IR35)
Contact: [email protected]
Overview
We are looking for an experienced Golang Developer to join our engineering team and play a key role in building scalable, high-performance systems. You will work on modernising our architecture, developing microservices, and ensuring reliability across production environments.
Key Responsibilities
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable microservices using Golang
• Contribute to system architecture decisions, including migration from monolith to microservices
• Optimise and manage PostgreSQL databases, including indexing and partitioning strategies
• Ensure application performance and reliability through monitoring, alerting, and testing
• Implement and manage asynchronous communication using Kafka
• Build and maintain deployment pipelines and support production environments
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, DevOps, QA)
• Participate in code reviews and promote engineering best practices
Key Skills & Experience
• 5+ years of professional experience working with Golang
• Strong understanding of gRPC, goroutines, and channels
• Proven experience with PostgreSQL performance tuning
• Hands-on experience with:
- GORM
- Prometheus & Grafana
- Kafka
- Exposure to Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, or TypeScript
• Solid understanding of software design patterns (e.g. Singleton, Factory)
• Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD and environment management
Nice to Have
• Experience in large-scale distributed systems
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Understanding of containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)
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