Senior Golang Engineer - Event-Driven Architecture
Portugal. Spain. RomaniaFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Languages
- English
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSDockerPostgreSQLDynamoDBGCPKafkaKubernetesAzureCassandraGoGrafanagRPCPrometheusRedisCI/CD
Requirements
- Extensive experience (5+ years) building backend or distributed systems in production environments
- Advanced proficiency in Golang (3+ years), with deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, profiling, benchmarking, and idiomatic Go patterns
- Expert-level hands-on experience with Kafka
- Solid foundation in distributed systems principles: consistency, replication, fault tolerance, event-driven architecture, resiliency patterns, and backpressure handling
- Strong experience with microservices at scale, API design (REST/gRPC), and service-to-service communication
- Proficiency with Docker, CI/CD workflows, and automated testing (unit, integration, load)
- Experience deploying and operating systems in modern cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), including monitoring, alerting, and autoscaling
- Strong communication skills and proficiency in English
- Experience building high-performance APIs with gRPC
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native tooling
- Experience with low-latency, high-throughput, or mission-critical systems
- Practical knowledge of Redis, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, or other distributed storage solutions
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and optimize high-performance backend services in Go (Golang)
- Build and improve event pipelines and messaging systems using Kafka (producers, consumers, partitions, consumer groups)
- Architect and implement scalable and fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Design APIs (REST/gRPC) and integrations across multiple backend microservices
- Implement unit, integration, and performance tests
- Collaborate closely with DevOps, Data Engineering, and QA teams
- Contribute to architectural decisions regarding schemas, event versioning, idempotency, streaming patterns, and backpressure handling
- Enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
- Implement and maintain observability standards using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices
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