Developer

About the Role

Viable Solutions is seeking an experienced Golang Backend Developer to design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services and APIs. You will work on building scalable, concurrent, and production‑grade Go applications in a cloud‑native environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-performance backend services and microservices using Go (Golang)
• Build and maintain RESTful and gRPC APIs
• Implement concurrency patterns using Go goroutines, channels, and interfaces
• Develop and optimise database interactions across relational and NoSQL databases
• Integrate with message brokers — Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ
• Containerise and deploy Go applications using Docker and Kubernetes
• Write comprehensive unit and integration tests using Go testing frameworks
• Conduct code reviews and ensure code quality standards are maintained
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams in an Agile delivery environment

Required Skills & Experience

• 5–8+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years hands‑on in Go (Golang) — mandatory
• Strong proficiency in idiomatic Go — goroutines, channels, interfaces, and error handling
• Experience building RESTful and gRPC APIs in production environments
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Experience with Go frameworks — Gin, Echo, Fiber, or Chi
• Strong SQL skills — PostgreSQL or MySQL in production
• Experience with NoSQL databases — MongoDB, Redis, or DynamoDB
• Hands‑on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with AWS — EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, or Fargate
• Strong understanding of API security — OAuth 2.0, JWT, and OpenID Connect
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines — GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar

Nice to Have

• Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf)
• Knowledge of NATS or Kafka Streams for event‑driven architecture
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing
• Exposure to Terraform for infrastructure as code
• Contributions to open‑source Go projects

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• AWS Certified Developer — Associate (advantageous)
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) — advantageous

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