Golang Developer

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 1000000 - Rs 2500000 (ie INR 10 - 25 LPA)

Min Experience: 5+ years
Location: Bengaluru
JobType: full-time

We are looking for a highly skilled Golang Developer with 5–7 years of professional software development experience to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Golang, Kubernetes, and Linux, with a proven ability to design, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable and reliable backend systems.

You will work on distributed applications, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure while collaborating closely with product, DevOps, and engineering teams. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems and building high-performance systems in a production environment.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain robust and scalable backend applications using Golang.
• Build and maintain high-performance RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Develop clean, maintainable, reusable, and well-tested Go code following industry best practices.
• Design and implement concurrent and fault-tolerant services using Go's concurrency capabilities such as goroutines and channels.
• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot applications running on Kubernetes clusters.
• Create and maintain Kubernetes resources such as Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and StatefulSets.
• Work extensively in Linux environments, including system troubleshooting, performance monitoring, process management, networking, and shell scripting.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues across application, infrastructure, and Kubernetes layers.
• Collaborate with DevOps engineers to improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, monitoring, and system reliability.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, resource utilization, and system availability.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, technical design, and engineering best-practice initiatives.
• Write unit, integration, and automated tests to ensure application reliability and quality.
• Monitor production systems and proactively identify potential performance, reliability, and scalability issues.
• Maintain technical documentation for applications, APIs, deployment processes, and operational procedures.

Must-Have Skills

• 5–7 years of hands-on software development experience.
• Strong professional experience with Golang (Go) and backend development.
• Excellent understanding of Go programming concepts, concurrency, goroutines, channels, interfaces, error handling, and package management.
• Strong experience designing and developing REST APIs and microservices.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, deployments, services, networking, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Strong proficiency in Linux, including command-line tools, system administration, process management, networking, logs, and troubleshooting.
• Good understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native application architecture.
• Experience with Git and modern software development practices.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and analytical skills.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Docker and containerized applications.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or Redis.
• Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS.
• Familiarity with observability tools, monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools.