Senior GoLang Backend Architect

Caliberly; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Professional growth opportunities

Mentoring & learning culture

Job summary

Caliberly is seeking an experienced Senior GoLang Developer to design, build and maintain high-performance backend systems, services and APIs in a dynamic software development environment. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with product, architecture, operations, and QA teams to deliver scalable solutions and drive technical excellence.

The role requires strong Go expertise, microservices experience, and cloud deployment knowledge, with opportunities to mentor junior engineers and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 58 years of professional software development experience including 2 years hands-on with Go (Golang) in production environments.
• Strong expertise in Go: idiomatic Go code, concurrency patterns (goroutines, channels), performance optimisation and Go toolchain.
• Solid experience with microservices architecture, database systems (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis or NoSQL), API design (REST/gRPC) and cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with containerisation/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git) and DevOps.
• Excellent problem solving skills, attention to detail, strong communication and ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
• Fluent in English. Arabic proficiency would be an advantage but is not essential.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop and maintain robust backend microservices using Go (Golang).
• Design and implement RESTful and/or gRPC APIs, data processing pipelines, event-driven workflows and integration with databases and third-party systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate product requirements and architecture into scalable, maintainable solutions; participate in design reviews and set coding standards.
• Optimize system performance, reliability and scalability; monitor metrics, profile applications, identify bottlenecks, ensure high availability and fault tolerance.
• Lead and mentor junior/midlevel developers: conduct code reviews, share knowledge and promote best practices.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), cloud deployment (AWS/GCP/Azure) and infrastructure as code tools.
• Ensure high standards of code quality, testing (unit/integration), documentation and Agile/Scrum practices are upheld.
• Keep abreast of emerging technologies in the backend/Go ecosystem and propose innovations to enhance architecture.

Skills

Go (Golang) expertise

Backend development

REST/gRPC APIs

Microservices

Cloud platforms

Docker/Kubernetes

CI/CD

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Caliberly is seeking an experienced Senior GoLang Developer to design, build and maintain high-performance backend systems, services and APIs in a dynamic software development environment. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with product, architecture, operations, and QA teams to deliver scalable solutions and drive technical excellence.

The role requires strong Go expertise, microservices experience, and cloud deployment knowledge, with opportunities to mentor junior engineers and