Golang 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

About you

• 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