Senior Software Engineer
Senior Golang Backend Engineer
Golang | AWS | Kubernetes | Linux | Distributed Systems
Are you passionate about building high-performance backend systems that operate at enterprise scale? We're looking for a Senior Golang Backend Engineer to join a team developing secure, cloud-native applications and distributed services that power mission-critical platforms.
This is an opportunity to work on complex engineering challenges involving microservices, authentication, cloud infrastructure, and high-throughput systems in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
What You'll Do
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Golang
- Build and enhance cloud-native microservices deployed in Kubernetes environments
- Develop RESTful and gRPC APIs for enterprise applications
- Design secure authentication and authorization solutions
- Collaborate with architects and engineers to design scalable, reliable systems
- Troubleshoot production issues and resolve software defects
- Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability
- Refactor existing code to improve maintainability and efficiency
- Translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Participate in architecture reviews, design discussions, and code reviews
- Create and maintain technical documentation
- Estimate development effort and deliver high-quality software
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of backend software development experience
- 2+ years of professional experience developing applications with Golang
- Strong experience building distributed systems and microservices
- Deep understanding of Linux operating systems and development environments
- Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience building RESTful and/or gRPC services
- Experience with Git-based version control
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and analytical skills
- Ability to work independently while collaborating across engineering teams
Technical Skills
Programming Languages
- Golang (Go)
- Python or JavaScript (preferred)
- C programming experience is a plus
Cloud & Infrastructure
- AWS (EKS, ECS, S3, Lambda, SNS/SQS, or similar services)
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Terraform (preferred)
Backend Technologies
- Microservices Architecture
- Event-Driven Systems
- REST APIs
- gRPC
- Concurrent Programming (Goroutines)
Identity & Security
Experience with one or more of the following:
- Active Directory
- LDAP
- PKI / Certificate Management
- SSH Key Management
- OAuth
- OpenID Connect (OIDC)
- SAML
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Databases
Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including:
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- DynamoDB
- Redis
- SQL
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with any of the following is highly desirable:
- High-volume, low-latency distributed systems
- Enterprise platform engineering
- API gateway development
- Workflow orchestration
- Messaging technologies (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS)
- Performance tuning and scalability optimization
- CI/CD pipelines
- Code reverse engineering and legacy modernization
- Observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or Splunk
We're Looking For Someone Who
- Enjoys solving complex backend engineering problems
- Thrives in cloud-native, distributed environments
- Writes clean, maintainable, production-quality code
- Takes ownership of projects from design through deployment
- Values collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement
- Has experience building highly scalable, reliable backend platforms
Why Join Us?
You'll work alongside talented engineers building secure, scalable systems that support millions of users and mission-critical applications. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact while working with modern technologies in a collaborative engineering environment.
GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Senior Software Engineer
Other similar jobs
Popular job searches
Your next job
starts here.
JOB SPECIALISMS
LATEST JOBS
TOP SEARCHES
LOCATIONS
- IT Support & Infrastructure
- Engineering
- Controls & Automation
- Data
- Project Management
- BI & Data Analytics
- Network security consultant
- DevOps
- IT Audit & Risk
- Hardware & Electronics
- Testing & QA
- Software Development
LATEST JOBS
- Electrical Utility Manager
- Data Engineer
- Technical Project Manager
- Azure Ops Engineer - Contract
- Director of Security Engineeri...
- Entry-Level Master Control Ope...
- Master Control Operator
- Automation Test Lead
- Test Lead
- Senior DevSecOps Engineer
- Product Security Analyst - Vul...
- Application Security Engineer
TOP SEARCHES
LOCATIONS
- Engineer
- Data Scientist
- Senior Data Scientist
- Head of Data Science
- Trainee Data Scientist
- Data Science Graduate
- Senior Financial Accountant
- Management Accountant
- Cost Accountant
- Civil Engineer
- Senior Civil Engineer
- Civil Design Engineer