Backend Engineer (Go)

About the role

A company is looking for a hands-on Backend Engineer with strong Go (Golang) experience to build and maintain scalable, secure and reliable backend services and APIs. The role works closely with engineering and product teams to support web and mobile applications.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Go.
• Write clean, reusable and maintainable code.
• Implement safe and efficient concurrent processes using goroutines and channels.
• Design and optimise APIs, database queries and data structures.
• Improve application performance, reliability and security.
• Write automated unit and integration tests.
• Participate in code reviews and troubleshoot technical issues.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to deliver reliable features.

Required profile

• Proven experience building and maintaining production backend services with Go.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related field preferred; equivalent practical experience also considered.
• Strong problem-solving, communication and collaboration skills, and ability to take ownership of tasks.

Required skills

• Go: interfaces, generics, package design and concurrency.
• REST APIs, and familiarity with gRPC, Protocol Buffers or GraphQL.
• Relational or non-relational databases.
• Nice to have: Agile or Scrum experience, SQL and database validation, and exposure to performance, security, accessibility or cross-device testing.