Senior Go Backend Engineer | Hybrid, Growth & Impact

Sofico; Zwijnaarde; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal allowance

Company car / mobility budget

Hospitalisation & group insurance

Hybrid work

Ghent office with EV charging

Structured onboarding with coach

Team events & social activities

Job summary

SOFICO, based in Ghent, Belgium, invites a Senior Go Backend Engineer to evolve Miles Enterprise with modern, self-service tooling. You will develop reliable Go backends, design configuration tooling, and collaborate across product, engineering, and business consultants.

You will contribute to backend engineering at scale, sharing knowledge and improving practices while leveraging AI-assisted tools and a passion for high-quality software.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of Go backend experience.
• Strong REST API and microservices experience.
• Experience with automated testing and relational databases.
• Analytical, ownership-driven mindset with fluent English.
• Interest in AI-assisted engineering tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain backend services in Go focused on reliability.
• Lead configuration management and self-service tooling for Miles Enterprise.
• Collaborate with product owners, engineers and consultants to translate requirements.
• Take ownership of backend engineering challenges across the Miles Enterprise platform.

Skills

Go development

REST APIs

Microservices

Automated testing

Relational databases

English fluency

Java/Quarkus

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Domain models

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Quarkus

Job description

SOFICO, based in Ghent, Belgium, invites a Senior Go Backend Engineer to evolve Miles Enterprise with modern, self-service tooling. You will develop reliable Go backends, design configuration tooling, and collaborate across product, engineering, and business consultants.

You will contribute to backend engineering at scale, sharing knowledge and improving practices while leveraging AI-assisted tools and a passion for high-quality software.