Remote Senior Golang Engineer - High-Performance Backends

We Love Pop Ups; Abu Dhabi; Remote; AED 350,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

We Love Pop Ups is hiring a Senior Golang Engineer to design, build, test, deploy, optimize, and maintain high-performance backend services in a fully remote setup. You will own core services, optimize concurrency, and guide architecture decisions.

You will work across APIs, microservices, gRPC, REST, and data stores, with a focus on reliability, observability, and scalability. The role requires hands-on leadership, deep Go knowledge, and the ability to drive quality through CI/CD and

Qualifications

• Extensive production experience with Go (Golang).
• Strong knowledge of goroutines, channels, synchronization, and concurrency.
• Experience designing scalable backend services and distributed systems.
• Proficiency with REST and gRPC interfaces and API design.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain production-grade Go applications.
• Build scalable, reliable, and secure backend services and APIs.
• Translate product needs into robust technical solutions and architectures.
• Lead architectural decisions and drive engineering standards.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native deployments.
• Prioritize performance, observability, and fault tolerance.

Skills

Go

Backend engineering

Concurrent programming

APIs

Microservices

Cloud-native

Databases

Observability

Reliability

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

We Love Pop Ups is hiring a Senior Golang Engineer to design, build, test, deploy, optimize, and maintain high-performance backend services in a fully remote setup. You will own core services, optimize concurrency, and guide architecture decisions.

You will work across APIs, microservices, gRPC, REST, and data stores, with a focus on reliability, observability, and scalability. The role requires hands-on leadership, deep Go knowledge, and the ability to drive quality through CI/CD and