Senior Golang Engineer

🤖 Golang Engineer

📍 REMOTE

💰 USD 3,500 gross a month

I'm looking for an experienced Golang Developer to join my client fully remote, and help build the backend systems powering their financial platform. You’ll play a key role in designing and developing the backend services behind our payments, transactions, and real-time financial data processing. This is an opportunity to work on mission-critical systems where performance, security, and reliability truly matter.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and scale backend services and APIs using Go (Golang)
• Architect high-performance systems for financial transaction processing
• Build secure payment engines and financial data pipelines
• Design RESTful and gRPC APIs for mobile and platform integrations
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery
• Implement robust security practices (encryption, auth, secure protocols)
• Optimize system performance and scalability
• Create unit, integration, and end-to-end test coverage
• Contribute to system architecture and technical decisions
• Monitor production services, troubleshoot issues, and deploy solutions
• Document system designs, APIs, and architecture

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• 4+ years of hands-on Go (Golang) development
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture and related patterns
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs
• Solid SQL database knowledge (PostgreSQL, MySQL) including performance tuning
• Experience with message queues or event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS)
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
• Comfortable with Git and CI/CD practices
• Strong testing mindset and experience with automated testing
• FinTech experience (payments, banking, financial infrastructure) is a strong plus

Please apply to be contacted with further information.