Primary Title: Golang Backend Engineer
About The Opportunity
A fast-growing software product company operating in cloud-native backend systems and enterprise SaaS — building resilient, high-throughput APIs and microservices for business-critical applications. We are hiring an on-site Golang Backend Engineer in India to own backend services, optimise performance at scale, and deliver secure production systems.Role & Responsibilities
- Design, implement and maintain production-grade backend services in Go (Golang) with a focus on scalability, reliability, and low latency.
- Build and own microservices (REST/gRPC) including API contracts, data modelling, and service integrations across distributed systems.
- Write clean, well-tested code—author unit/integration tests, run CI/CD pipelines, and participate in code reviews to maintain engineering quality.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and implement profiling, caching, and concurrency optimisations (goroutines, channels) to improve throughput and latency.
- Containerise services using Docker and deploy/manage workloads on Kubernetes; collaborate on infrastructure-as-code and observability (metrics, logging, tracing).
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, QA, and SRE teams to deliver features end-to-end and support production incidents.
Skills & Qualifications
Must-Have
- 3+ years of professional experience building backend services in Go (Golang) for production systems.
- Strong understanding of concurrency in Go (goroutines, channels), memory management, and performance tuning.
- Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs and/or gRPC, relational (Postgres/MySQL) and/or NoSQL databases.
- Practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Git-based CI/CD pipelines, and Linux server environments.
Preferred
- Experience with distributed tracing, Prometheus/Grafana metrics, and designing for observability and SLOs.
- Familiarity with message brokers (Kafka/RabbitMQ), authentication/authorization patterns, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
Benefits & Culture Highlights
- On-site role with strong engineering collaboration, mentorship, and fast product iteration cycles.
- Opportunity to work on large-scale, performance-critical systems and influence architecture decisions.
- Culture that values ownership, continuous learning, and pragmatic engineering excellence.
Location & Workplace
: India — On-site role. Candidates must be available to work from the assigned office location and participate in in-person collaboration.Apply if you are a results-driven Go engineer who enjoys building reliable backends, optimising systems for scale, and shipping high-impact product features.Skills: go,docker,kubernetes,go (golang)