Golang Backend Developer

Role Overview

Viable Solutions is recruiting a seasoned Golang Backend Developer responsible for architecting, creating, and maintaining robust backend services and APIs optimized for high throughput. This role focuses on constructing scalable, concurrent, cloud-native Go applications suitable for production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build efficient backend services and microservices leveraging Go.
• Develop and sustain RESTful and gRPC based APIs.
• Implement concurrency paradigms with goroutines, channels, and interfaces in Go.
• Optimize and manage interactions with both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Incorporate message broker systems such as Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ into services.
• Containerize Go applications and deploy them via Docker and Kubernetes.
• Create thorough unit and integration tests using Go's testing tools.
• Perform code reviews to uphold high-quality code standards.
• Work collaboratively within Agile teams alongside various stakeholders.

Required Skills and Expertise

• At least 5 years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years dedicated to Go programming.
• Advanced knowledge of idiomatic Go including goroutines, channels, interfaces, and error handling.
• Proven capabilities in building production REST and gRPC APIs.
• Solid comprehension of microservices design and distributed system concepts.
• Experience with Go web frameworks like Gin, Echo, Fiber, or Chi.
• Strong proficiency in SQL with PostgreSQL or MySQL in live environments.
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Redis, or DynamoDB.
• Hands-on ability with Docker containerization and Kubernetes orchestration.
• Experience deploying on AWS services including EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, or Fargate.
• Understanding of API security techniques like OAuth 2.0, JWT, and OpenID Connect.
• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions or Jenkins.

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience working with gRPC and Protocol Buffers.
• Knowledge of NATS or Kafka Streams for event-driven architectures.
• Exposure to distributed tracing frameworks like OpenTelemetry.
• Familiarity with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code implementations.
• Participation in open-source Go projects is a plus.

Educational Background

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or similar fields.
• Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Developer - Associate and Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) are advantageous.