Golang Developer

Job title: Golang Developer

Location: Phoenix, AZ (Onsite)
Employment Type: Contract

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Golang Developer to join our engineering team in Phoenix, AZ. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience designing and developing cloud-native, distributed systems using Go (Golang), with a strong background in microservices, event-driven architectures, containerization, and modern DevOps practices. This role requires hands-on expertise in building scalable, high-performance backend platforms that support mission-critical enterprise applications.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of software development experience with at least 5+ years of hands-on Golang development.
• Strong expertise in designing and implementing scalable distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Experience developing high-throughput, low-latency applications in production environments.
• Deep understanding of Go concurrency patterns, goroutines, channels, memory management, and performance tuning.
• Expertise in RESTful APIs, gRPC, GraphQL, and API gateway technologies.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra, or Redis.
• Experience with event streaming and messaging platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Amazon SQS/SNS.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and DevOps best practices.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry.
• Familiarity with security best practices including OAuth2, JWT, TLS, encryption, and secure coding standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable backend systems and cloud-native applications using Golang.
• Architect and implement microservices and event-driven solutions for enterprise-scale platforms.
• Build resilient, fault-tolerant, and highly available services deployed in Kubernetes environments.
• Develop secure and performant APIs and integrations with internal and external systems.
• Optimize application performance, resource utilization, and system reliability.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners, DevOps engineers, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Conduct code reviews, mentor junior developers, and establish engineering best practices.
• Drive technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and technology evaluations.
• Implement automated testing strategies including unit, integration, and performance testing.
• Participate in production support, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and incident resolution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD), CQRS, and Event Sourcing.
• Knowledge of service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.
• Experience working in financial services, banking, healthcare, insurance, or large enterprise environments.
• Exposure to AI/ML platform integrations and data-intensive applications.
• Experience with GitOps, ArgoCD, Helm, and Kubernetes Operators.
• Certifications in AWS, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), or Cloud Technologies.