Go Developer

Contracting period: 6 months, with possibility to extend.

Contract details: B2B/ PFA or SRL

Location: EU/Remote

We are looking for an experienced Go Developer to design, build, and operate high-performance backend services and APIs. In this role, you will work closely with product and platform teams to deliver resilient, secure, and observable systems, with a strong focus on code quality, automation, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services and APIs in Go, following idiomatic Go patterns and clean/hexagonal architecture

• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs, including authentication, authorization, and service-to-service communication

• Work with messaging, caching, and storage systems

• Ensure reliable delivery through CI/CD pipelines

• Implement observability using structured logging, metrics, and distributed tracing

• Collaborate in an Agile environment, refining requirements with product owners

• Contribute to engineering standards, best practices, and technical documentation

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field

• Minimum 5 years of professional software development experience

• Strong, hands-on experience building production-grade services in Go

  • Go modules, tooling, idioms, and best practices

• Solid understanding of concurrency, synchronization, contexts, and error handling in Go

• Experience designing and maintaining APIs, including versioning and backward compatibility

• Practical experience with relational databases

• Experience with at least one messaging or streaming platform

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code

• Strong testing mindset using Gos testing toolkit (testing, httptest) and libraries such as testify

• Ability to break down complex problems and design simple, maintainable solutions

• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Fluent English, written and spoken

Nice to Have

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and managed services

• Knowledge of security best practices

• Exposure to event-driven architectures, streaming systems, caching strategies, and CQRS

• Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and clean/hexagonal architecture

• Background in regulated industries (e.g. insurance, financial services)