Senior GoLang Developer

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

Job Title: Senior GoLang Developer

About the Role

We are 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 work closely with product architecture operations and QA teams to deliver scalable reliable solutions optimise performance and lead technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect develop and maintain robust backend microservices using Go (Golang) implementing best practices for concurrency memory management performance and code quality.
• Design and implement RESTful and/or gRPC APIs data processing pipelines event driven workflows and integration with databases (SQL/NoSQL) 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 promote best practices and help build technical capability in the team.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines containerisation (e.g. Docker Kubernetes) cloud deployment (AWS GCP or Azure) and infrastructure as code tools to drive efficient delivery.
• Ensure high standards of code quality testing (unit/integration) documentation and software development practices (e.g. Agile/Scrum) are upheld.
• Keep abreast of emerging technologies languages and frameworks in the backend/Go ecosystem and propose innovations to enhance our architecture and development processes.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related technical 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 Dev Ops collaborative workflow.
• 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.

Key Competencies & Behaviours

• Strategic technical thinker: able to influence architecture decisions anticipate scalability/performance issues and drive improvements.
• High ownership and accountability: takes responsibility for end to end delivery quality and outcomes.
• Mentoring mindset: supports team growth shares knowledge and helps elevate others capabilities.
• Adaptable and agile: thrives in a fastmoving software development environment comfortable with changing priorities.
• Results oriented: focused on measurable outcomes (performance scalability delivery) rather than just output.
• Collaborative and inclusive: works well across teams communicates clearly and fosters collective success.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits aligned with market and experience.
• Opportunity to work on cutting edge backend systems with GoLang in a growing IT services/software development setting.
• Exposure to full lifecycle software development cloud native architectures and high performance systems.
• Professional growth opportunities mentoring and learning focused culture.