Principal Golang Engineer

About the role

A company building a next-generation digital commerce solution is looking for a highly experienced Golang Engineer who can also guide engineering teams, solve difficult technical problems and make key technology decisions. The role starts full-time next week.

Key responsibilities

• Plan and implement backend solutions using Go and a microservices approach.
• Develop efficient APIs and integrations between internal and external systems.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and improve system stability.
• Help teams make informed decisions on software design and technology choices.
• Work with cloud infrastructure, databases and asynchronous messaging systems.
• Review technical solutions, support other developers and improve development workflows.
• Introduce tools and processes that raise code quality and development efficiency.

Required profile

• 12+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years working extensively with Golang in production environments.
• Previous experience guiding technical initiatives involving multiple development teams.
• Strong analytical, communication and problem-solving abilities.

Required skills

• Distributed applications and service-oriented design.
• REST, gRPC, SQL and PostgreSQL.
• AWS, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Go concurrency, debugging, performance tuning and automated testing.
• Messaging systems, data synchronization and fault-tolerant applications.
• Nice to have: Apache Kafka, Java, Terraform, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Redis, React, TypeScript, large-scale online retail experience, AI-powered development tools.