Senior Golang Developer

Job Title : Senior Golang Developer

Location : Pune

Experience : 5 to 8 yrs exp

I. Job Summary :

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Golang Developer to join our team. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance backend services and APIs using Go. This role requires deep expertise in Golang, a strong understanding of system design, and experience with modern development toolsets. It will be beneficial to have worked with Hashicorp Vault or similar.

II. Roles & Responsibilities :

Key Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend services using Go.

Develop RESTful and / or gRPC APIs for internal and external consumption.

Optimize application performance and scalability.

Write clean, efficient, and testable code.

Collaborate with DevOps to ensure smooth CI / CD pipelines and deployments.

Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and mentoring junior developers.

Troubleshoot and debug production issues as needed.

III. Years of Experience :

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of professional experience.

IV. Educational Qualification & Certifications (Optional) :

Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.

V. Skill Set Required :

Required Skills & Experience

5 to 8 years of professional software development experience, with 3+ years in Golang.

Strong understanding of Go’s core packages : net / http, context, sync, errors, io, encoding / json, etc.

Experience with Go modules and dependency management.

Proficiency in building microservices and distributed systems.

Familiarity with messaging systems like Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ.

Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB).

Solid understanding of concurrency patterns and memory management in Go.

Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).

Familiarity with CI / CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI).

Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Preferred :

Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers.

Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

HashiCorp Vault experience

Tools & Technologies

Languages : Go, Bash, SQL

Frameworks / Libraries (Any 2 atleast) : Gorilla Mux, Gin, Echo, gRPC, Cobra

Databases : PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB

DevOps (atleast 1) : Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform

Monitoring (atleast 1) : Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger

Version Control : Git (GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket)

Tools : Hashicorp Vault