Senior Golang Developer

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I. Job Summary:

Senior Golang Developer

II. Roles & Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend services using Go.
• Develop RESTful and/or gRPC APIs for internal and external consumption.
• Optimize application performance and scalability.
• Write clean, efficient, and testable code.
• Collaborate with DevOps to ensure smooth CI/CD pipelines and deployments.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and mentoring junior developers.
• Troubleshoot and debug production issues as needed.

III. Years of Experience:

5+ years of professional experience.

IV. Educational Qualification & Certifications (Optional):

Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.

V. Skill Set Required:

Required Skills & Experience

• 5 to 8 years of professional software development experience, with 3+ years in Golang.
• Strong understanding of Go's core packages: net/http, context, sync, errors, io, encoding/json, etc.
• Experience with Go modules and dependency management.
• Proficiency in building microservices and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with messaging systems like Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB).
• Solid understanding of concurrency patterns and memory management in Go.
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Preferred:

• Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers.
• Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• HashiCorp Vault experience

Tools & Technologies

• Languages: Go, Bash, SQL
• Frameworks/Libraries (Any 2 atleast): Gorilla Mux, Gin, Echo, gRPC, Cobra
• Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB
• DevOps (atleast 1): Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform
• Monitoring (atleast 1): Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger
• Version Control: Git (GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket)
• Tools :Hashicorp Vault