Senior Go Developer

Andersen Lab; Dubai; On-site; AED 331,000 - 477,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Annual bonus

Referral program

Certification reimbursement

Training portal access

Hybrid/Remote options

Team events

Pizza days / snacks / games

Career development mentoring

Job summary

Andersen Lab in the United Arab Emirates invites a Go Developer to join a project building a global digital platform for insurance and assistance. You will own backend systems powering multiple apps, with a focus on real-time data, scalability, and reliable microservices using gRPC and REST APIs.

You will work with PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ or Kafka, and implement monitoring with Grafana/Prometheus, delivering high-availability systems within an Agile/Scrum environment, while collaborating with

Qualifications

• 5+ years commercial development experience, including 3+ years with Go in production.
• Higher education in Computer Science.
• Experience with AI integration in a team setting.
• FinTech/banking domain experience and complex integrations.
• Strong Go concurrency (goroutines, channels) and production-grade microservices with gRPC.
• Containerizing and deploying backend services.
• PostgreSQL expertise: schema design, queries, migrations.
• RabbitMQ or Kafka for event-driven architectures.
• REST API design and testing.
• Grafana/Prometheus for monitoring and alerting.
• Strong knowledge of scalable, highly available systems.
• Active code reviews and Agile/Scrum experience.
• English level: Upper-Intermediate+.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve a real-time cross-selling platform with real-time data flows.
• Own backend powering multiple user-facing apps and microservices.
• Design/maintain REST and gRPC APIs for core insurance platforms and third parties.
• Model transactional data in PostgreSQL, including audits.
• Implement event-driven workflows with RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Write unit/integration tests focusing on monetary calculations and claims accuracy.
• Instrument services with Grafana/Prometheus for monitoring.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure high quality and maintainability.
• Contribute to scalable, available platform design and architecture decisions.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts, QA, and DevOps in Agile/Scrum.

Skills

Go

Concurrency

Goroutines

Channels

gRPC

REST APIs

Microservices

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Grafana

Prometheus

Agile/Scrum

English

Containerization

Education

Higher education in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Job description

Andersen is hiring a Go Developer for a project developing a global digital platform and delivering scalable backend solutions for the insurance and assistance industry.

Our customer is an international organization operating in the financial and protection services domain. The company provides a diverse portfolio of customer-oriented solutions across multiple business areas and markets. With a strong focus on digital capabilities, operational excellence, and long-term development, the organization continuously invests in technology, process improvement, and service innovation to support evolving customer and business needs.

The project is focused on developing and enhancing a global digital platform for the insurance and assistance industry. It supports travel, automotive, health, and assistance services by delivering scalable, reliable solutions that improve customer experience and streamline business operations.

Responsibilities:

• Building and evolving a real-time cross-selling platform, working with real-time data flows and business logic for personalized offers within an insurance context.
• Owning the backend powering multiple user-facing apps, advancing our gRPC-based microservice architecture.
• Designing and maintaining REST/gRPC APIs for integration with core insurance platforms and third-party services (risk scoring, KYC, payments).
• Working with PostgreSQL to model and managing transactional data such as policies, claims, and customer records, including audit trails.
• Implementing event-driven workflows using RabbitMQ or Kafka to handle claims events, policy updates, and notifications reliably.
• Writing and maintaining unit and integration tests, with particular attention to logic involving monetary calculations and claims/premium accuracy.
• Instrumenting services with Grafana/Prometheus to monitor critical flows and proactively catch issues before they impact users.
• Actively participating in code reviews to ensure the platform and codebase meet the highest quality standards.
• Taking a proactive role in all aspects of platform design and development, with a strong emphasis on scalability, availability, and resilience.
• Collaborating closely with Business Analysts, QA, and DevOps within an Agile/Scrum framework, translating evolving business and regulatory requirements into technical solutions.
• Contributing to architectural decisions that balance flexibility for multiple consuming apps with long-term maintainability and fault tolerance.

Reasons why this job would be interesting to you:

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Job conditions – you can work both fully remotely and from the office or can choose a hybrid variant.
• Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.
• The opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 USD per month, depending on the level of expertise, which will be included in the annual bonus, by participating in the company's activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• Private health insurance and compensation for sports activities.

Join us!

Skills

Must-haves:

• Commercial development experience for 5+ years, including 3+ years working with Go in production environments.
• Higher education in Computer Science (software development, etc.).
• Extensive experience working with AI and the process of implementing/configuring it within a team.
• Experience of working in fintech, banking domains, and working with complex integrations.
• Strong hands-on experience, including concurrency (goroutines, channels). Proven experience designing, developing, and maintaining production-grade microservice architectures using gRPC.
• Experience with containerizing and deploying backend services.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and database migrations.
• Hands-on experience with RabbitMQ or Kafka for event-driven and asynchronous communication.
• Experience designing and implementing REST APIs.
• Practical experience writing unit and integration tests for backend services.
• Experience instrumenting services with Grafana and Prometheus, including metrics collection, monitoring, and alerting.
• Experience designing scalable, highly available systems capable of handling high-throughput, real-time workloads.
• Active participation in code reviews, with a strong focus on code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Ownership mindset with the ability to take end-to-end responsibility for backend components throughout their lifecycle.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.
• Strong understanding of fault-tolerant system design, idempotency, SLA considerations, and service reliability.
• Level of English – from Upper-Intermediate and above.

Nice to have

• Prior experience in insurance other regulated domains; familiarity with data privacy/compliance standards (GDPR, PCI DSS); understanding of core insurance concepts (policies, underwriting, claims lifecycle).