Remote Go Software Engineer — Open Source Services

YO IT Consulting; Abu Dhabi Emirate; On-site; AED 201,000 - 391,000; Full time

Job summary

YO IT Consulting seeks an experienced Go Software Engineer for Open Source Services to join a remote contractor engagement in Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE. You will develop scalable Go components, review code, and contribute to open-source projects while maintaining high reliability and performance.

The role emphasizes writing clean APIs, asynchronous patterns, and thorough documentation. Candidates with strong open-source credentials and distributed-systems background are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• Relevant open-source experience preferred.
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud services is desirable.
• Strong knowledge of Go and concurrent programming.
• Experience in code reviews and performance optimization.
• Familiarity with AI or ML systems is a plus but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Analyze repository structure, service boundaries, dependencies, and build requirements.
• Review feature requests and propose implementation plans.
• Develop production-grade Go services, packages, libraries, and utilities.
• Design clear APIs and internal interfaces that support maintainable system growth.
• Apply effective goroutine, channel, and synchronization patterns.
• Prevent race conditions, deadlocks, resource leaks, and uncontrolled concurrency.
• Build reliable error handling, cancellation, timeout, and retry behaviour.
• Reproduce software defects using focused test cases and diagnostic evidence.
• Investigate logs, traces, runtime metrics, and test output to locate root causes.
• Resolve functional errors, integration issues, compatibility failures, and performance constraints.
• Benchmark critical paths and optimize components based on measurable results.
• Refactor complicated packages to improve cohesion, readability, and testability.
• Add table-driven tests, integration coverage, and regression checks.
• Validate formatting, static analysis, builds, and automated tests before submission.
• Create clear pull requests describing the problem, implementation, and validation approach.
• Work constructively with maintainers to revise changes during review.
• Assess peer contributions for correctness, efficiency, concurrency safety, and architectural fit.
• Participate in technical discussions and communicate design trade-offs clearly.
• Update API references, configuration guidance, examples, and contributor documentation.
• Follow project licensing, governance, security, and version-control standards.

Skills

Go programming

Open-source development

Distributed services

Goroutines

Channels

Synchronization

Context cancellation

API design

Algorithms and data structures

Runtime diagnostics

Benchmarking

Performance optimization

Table-driven testing

Integration testing

Static analysis

Code refactoring

Git workflows

Pull-request review

Technical documentation

C

Python

Java

TypeScript

Rust

Tools

Git

Job description

YO IT Consulting seeks an experienced Go Software Engineer for Open Source Services to join a remote contractor engagement in Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE. You will develop scalable Go components, review code, and contribute to open-source projects while maintaining high reliability and performance.

The role emphasizes writing clean APIs, asynchronous patterns, and thorough documentation. Candidates with strong open-source credentials and distributed-systems background are encouraged to apply.