Senior Go Backend Engineer – Scalable Streaming APIs

Brightgrove Ltd.; Medellín; On-site; COP 126,562,000 - 221,484,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Interview process respects time

Professional IT community

Internal meet-ups

Job summary

Brightgrove Ltd. in Medellín seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and build high performance, scalable backend services in Go. You’ll work with gRPC and REST APIs, Kafka pipelines, and Kubernetes deployments across AWS and GCP.

You’ll mentor juniors, drive performance tuning, and contribute to architecture reviews while adopting AI-assisted tooling to boost code quality and delivery velocity. Join a fast-moving, collaborative team with emphasis on testing, CI/CD, and security in a vibrant

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering, including owning backend services in production.
• 3+ years building production, highly scalable Go services, with concurrency and performance tuning.
• Experience designing high-performance gRPC and REST services with protobuf contracts and API versioning.
• Experience building Kafka pipelines and event streams with schema evolution and delivery guarantees.
• Production experience running services on Kubernetes in AWS (EKS) or GCP (GKE).
• Familiarity with AI-first tooling and agentic coding workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain data-intensive gRPC and REST APIs in Go and Node.js.
• Refactor legacy services to idiomatic Go for performance and stability.
• Build and operate Kafka pipelines for high throughput event streaming.
• Containerize and deploy Go microservices on Kubernetes using AWS and GCP services.
• Contribute to architecture reviews and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Go backend development

gRPC & REST

Kafka

Kubernetes (EKS/GKE)

AWS & GCP

Performance tuning

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

AWS

GCP

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Redis

MongoDB

Job description

Brightgrove Ltd. in Medellín seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and build high performance, scalable backend services in Go. You’ll work with gRPC and REST APIs, Kafka pipelines, and Kubernetes deployments across AWS and GCP.

You’ll mentor juniors, drive performance tuning, and contribute to architecture reviews while adopting AI-assisted tooling to boost code quality and delivery velocity. Join a fast-moving, collaborative team with emphasis on testing, CI/CD, and security in a vibrant