Senior Go Developer

Job description

Tech Level: Senior

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: Poland, Kazakhstan, EU, Georgia

Time Zone: CET

Start: ASAP

Project Duration: 4 months

Project Phase: Ongoing

About the Customer

Our customer is a global mobility and urban services platform providing transportation and related digital services.

About the Project

The project is focused on a branding management platform that supports the complete branding lifecycle, including branding management and verification processes.

Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and reliable backend services

- Drive technical research, architecture design, and implementation of backend services and new features

- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and product teams to deliver effective technical solutions

- Participate in code reviews and architectural discussions while promoting engineering best practices

- Write clean, maintainable, testable, and production-ready code

- Own the full lifecycle of backend services, including deployment, monitoring, and production support

- Design and maintain observability solutions covering metrics, logging, dashboards, and distributed tracing

- Participate in Agile activities, including discovery, refinement, decomposition, sprint planning, and demos

- Mentor other engineers and contribute to the technical growth of the team

Requirements

- 5+ years of commercial backend engineering experience, preferably in high-load environments

- Experience working in product-led environments and building and scaling distributed systems

- Expert-level Go knowledge, including advanced features such as generics, reflection, unsafe, and custom synchronization primitives

- Strong SQL expertise, including schema design, replication, partitioning, sharding, and query optimization

- Deep understanding of Redis data structures and their efficient application in high-load systems

- Experience with synchronous and asynchronous service communication, including gRPC and message brokers

- Strong understanding of microservice architecture and client-server communication patterns

- Experience designing and implementing observability strategies, including metrics, logging, dashboards, and distributed tracing

- Hands-on experience with Docker, CI/CD, Kubernetes or equivalent technologies, and cloud infrastructure

- Ability to write maintainable and testable code with solid unit and integration test coverage

- Good knowledge of Git

- Experience with project management and collaboration tools

- Intermediate English

Nice to Have

- Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging technologies

- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools

- Experience profiling and optimizing Go service performance

- Familiarity with design collaboration tools and cross-platform workflows

- Experience using AI-assisted development tools for coding, testing, and code reviews

- Interest in emerging technologies and continuous professional development

Soft Skills

- Proactive approach and ability to identify stakeholders and drive tasks independently

- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

- Ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and business teams

- Curious mindset and focus on continuous improvement

- Strong organizational and time management skills

Tech Stack

Go, Docker, CI/CD, Kubernetes, AWS

Interview Process

- English check with — 15 min

- Internal technical interview — 1–1.5 hours

- Client interview — 1 hour