Senior Golang Developer
Summary
Senior backend engineer role building scalable microservices and APIs using Go (Golang), with responsibilities spanning database design, cloud infrastructure (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and message brokers (Kafka/RabbitMQ) for a real estate investment and development company in Abu Dhabi.
We are looking for a highly skilled Backend Golang Engineer to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services using Go (Golang). You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build robust APIs, optimize system performance, and deliver reliable software solutions following modern software engineering principles and best practices.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain backend applications and services using Go (Golang).
- Build, test, and maintain RESTful APIs and gRPC services.
- Design and implement scalable microservices-based architectures.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following software engineering best practices.
- Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Design, develop, and optimize relational and NoSQL databases.
- Integrate third-party APIs and external services.
- Implement authentication and authorization mechanisms using JWT and OAuth2.
- Develop background services, scheduled jobs, and asynchronous processing using message brokers such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.
- Write unit, integration, and performance tests to ensure application quality.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate with Frontend, DevOps, QA, and Product teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement permanent solutions.
- Work with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines to support deployment automation.
- Monitor application health, performance, and logs to ensure system reliability.
- Maintain technical documentation and contribute to architectural decisions.