Senior Go Backend Engineer
Summary
Ruzora, a staffing firm placing senior LatAm engineers with US startups, seeks a Senior Go Backend Engineer to work 100% remote from Latin America for a partner building fintech and developer-infrastructure products. Day to day: designing Go APIs and gRPC/protobuf services, building distributed systems with Kafka/Redis/PostgreSQL, and deploying on Kubernetes/AWS.
Senior Go Backend Engineer (Full-time, remote from LatAm)
Ruzora places senior LatAm engineers full-time with US startups. We're hiring a Senior Go Backend Engineer to join a partner company building the services behind fintech, developer tools and infrastructure products. You'll design APIs, build distributed systems and work close to the infrastructure layer with Kubernetes and gRPC.
What you'll do
- Design and build backend services and APIs in Go
- Build distributed systems: queues, caches, event streams, service meshes
- Write concurrent, well-tested code using goroutines and channels correctly
- Own service reliability: metrics, tracing, alerting, on-call readiness
- Work with platform teams on Kubernetes deployment and scaling
- Join design reviews and mentor other engineers
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of backend development, 3+ years with Go in production
- Strong knowledge of Go concurrency, context and the standard library
- gRPC, REST and Protocol Buffers
- PostgreSQL, Redis and message queues (Kafka, NATS, SQS)
- Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes and at least one major cloud (AWS preferred)
- Excellent written and spoken English (B2 or higher)
Nice to have
- Contributions to Go open-source projects or CNCF tooling
- Experience building developer platforms or internal tooling
- Terraform and infrastructure as code
- Fintech or payments background
Stack: Go, gRPC, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, AWS
What you get
- Full-time, 100% remote from anywhere in Latin America
- Competitive salary in USD
- Flexible hours with overlap with US time zones
- Professional development budget, health insurance stipend, equipment allowance
Full role details: https://www.ruzora.com/jobs/golang-backend-engineer
Location: Remote - Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay
Skills required for this job:
- Back-end development
- Cloud platforms
- Docker
- Fintech
- Go
- Infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Kubernetes
- Message queuing
- PostgreSQL
- Protocol Buffers (Protobuf)
- REST API
- Redis
- gRPC