Senior Golang Developer

About Persistent

We are an AI-led, platform-driven Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization partner, combining deep technical expertise and industry experience to help our clients anticipate what's next. Our offerings and proven solutions create a unique competitive advantage for our clients by giving them the power to see beyond and rise above. We work with many industry-leading organizations across the world, including 20 Fortune 50 companies and 4 of the 5 top banks in both the US and India, and numerous innovators across the healthcare ecosystem.

Our disruptor's mindset, commitment to client success, and agility to thrive in the dynamic environment have enabled us to sustain our growth momentum. Persistent has been recognized across top industry platforms for innovation, leadership, and inclusion. We reported $1,654.4M FY26 revenue with 17.4% Y-o-Y growth. We have delivered 24 sequential quarters of growth with $436.0M in Q4 FY26 revenue, up 3.2% Q-o-Q and 16.2% Y-o-Y growth. Our 27,500+ global team members, located in 18 countries, have been instrumental in helping the market leaders transform their industries. We have been recognized as the Fastest Growing IT Services Brand Globally in the 2026 Brand Finance IT Services 25 Report. We named a Leader in the Everest Group Private Equity (PE) Services PEAK Matrix Assessment 2026 and Software Product Engineering PEAK Matrix Assessment 2026.

About Position:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with strong expertise in Golang and Microservices Architecture to join our dynamic engineering team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing and developing scalable, high-performance, and secure applications that support complex global payment platforms. This role requires deep technical expertise in Golang, cloud-native development, distributed systems, API development, containerization, and infrastructure automation. The successful candidate will play a key role in architecting systems capable of handling massive transaction volumes with low latency while maintaining reliability, security, and operational excellence.

• Role: Senior Golang Developer
• Location: Pune
• Experience: 10 to 15 Years
• Job Type: Full-Time Employment

What You'll Do:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable microservices using Golang for mission-critical transaction processing systems.
• Architect and build highly available distributed systems capable of processing large-scale transaction volumes with low latency.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and gRPC services for enterprise integration and service communication.
• Build cloud-native applications leveraging AWS services and containerized deployment models.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners, and engineering teams to define and implement technical solutions.
• Design and optimize microservices architectures focused on resiliency, scalability, and maintainability.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and modern DevOps toolchains.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, and Infrastructure-as-Code principles.
• Establish observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks to ensure operational excellence.
• Implement secure coding standards, PAM controls, authentication, authorization, and access governance mechanisms.
• Optimize application performance, throughput, and resource utilization.
• Design efficient database access patterns across relational and NoSQL databases.
• Participate in architecture reviews, design discussions, and technology evaluations.
• Conduct code reviews and enforce engineering best practices and coding standards.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical leadership initiatives.

Expertise You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• 10-15 years of software development experience with significant backend engineering expertise.
• Expert-level proficiency in Golang and enterprise application development.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, Goroutines, Channels, and Go performance optimization techniques.
• Deep expertise in Microservices Architecture and Distributed Systems design.
• Experience building high-performance REST APIs and gRPC services.
• Strong knowledge of Event-Driven Architecture and asynchronous messaging systems.
• Experience with cloud-native application development on AWS.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized application deployment.
• Expertise in service discovery, resilience patterns, scalability, and fault-tolerant architectures.
• Strong experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and DevOps automation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Chef.
• Experience working with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other enterprise database technologies.
• Knowledge of caching, performance tuning, database optimization, and scalability techniques.
• Understanding of cloud security, application security, and governance frameworks.
• Experience supporting production environments and critical business applications.
• Strong troubleshooting, monitoring, and performance engineering capabilities.
• Experience working in Agile and DevOps-driven organizations.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and leadership skills.
• Proven experience mentoring engineers and driving engineering excellence.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Culture focused on talent development with quarterly growth opportunities and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
• Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
• Annual health check-ups
• Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

Values-Driven, People-Centric & Inclusive Work Environment:

Persistent is dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We invite applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, and regardless of gender or gender preference. We welcome diverse candidates from all backgrounds.

• We support hybrid work and flexible hours to fit diverse lifestyles.
• Our office is accessibility-friendly, with ergonomic setups and assistive technologies to support employees with physical disabilities.
• If you are a person with disabilities and have specific requirements, please inform us during the application process or at any time during your employment

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