Golang Engineer - Hybrid Dublin, High-Performance Microservices

Digital Skills ltd; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Skills is recruiting an experienced Golang Engineer to design and build high-performance microservices in a hybrid Dublin setting. The role focuses on scalable, low-latency services for payments, fraud detection and developer platforms, using Golang, REST APIs and gRPC.

You will work in an enterprise financial services environment, maintain cloud-native deployments and contribute to CI/CD pipelines. Senior-level candidates will mentor others.

Qualifications

• Design and build scalable Golang microservices.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in cloud-native environments.
• Knowledge of gRPC and distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins preferred).
• Experience with relational or NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform/Ansible/Chef).
• Financial services, payments or fraud domain experience is a plus.
• Knowledge of secure engineering practices in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain scalable microservices using Golang.
• Build secure services supporting payments, fraud detection and developer platforms.
• Develop and integrate RESTful APIs and gRPC services.
• Optimize systems for high transaction volumes and low latency.
• Deploy and operate containerised apps using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automated delivery processes.
• Support infrastructure automation with Terraform/Ansible/Chef.
• Work with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring where appropriate.

Skills

Golang

Microservices design

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

REST API / gRPC

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

gRPC

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Job description

Digital Skills is recruiting an experienced Golang Engineer to design and build high-performance microservices in a hybrid Dublin setting. The role focuses on scalable, low-latency services for payments, fraud detection and developer platforms, using Golang, REST APIs and gRPC.

You will work in an enterprise financial services environment, maintain cloud-native deployments and contribute to CI/CD pipelines. Senior-level candidates will mentor others.