Golang Developer

Weekday AI; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Weekday AI in Bengaluru is seeking a seasoned Golang Developer to join our engineering team, building scalable backend systems, REST APIs, and microservices in production.

You'll work with Kubernetes and Linux, design and optimize distributed applications, and collaborate with product, DevOps, and engineering peers to deliver reliable, high-performance software.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of hands-on software development.
• Strong Golang and backend development experience.
• Solid Go concepts, concurrency, goroutines, channels, interfaces, error handling, and package management.
• Experience designing REST APIs and microservices.
• Hands-on Kubernetes in production environments.
• Strong Linux proficiency and distributed systems understanding.
• Experience with Git and modern software development practices.
• Good debugging, problem-solving, and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain robust backend apps with Golang.
• Build high-performance REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Write clean, maintainable Go code with best practices.
• Design and implement concurrent, fault-tolerant services using Go.
• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot apps on Kubernetes clusters.
• Create and maintain Kubernetes Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, StatefulSets.
• Work in Linux environments with system troubleshooting and scripting.
• Collaborate with DevOps to improve CI/CD, monitoring, and reliability.
• Optimize performance, scalability, and resource utilization.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and design initiatives.
• Write tests and maintain production documentation.

Skills

Golang (Go)

Backend development

Kubernetes

Linux

REST APIs

Microservices

Concurrency

Git

Debugging

Problem-solving

Tools

Docker

CI/CD tools

Terraform

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Job description

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 1000000 - Rs 2500000 (ie INR 10 - 25 LPA)

Min Experience: 5+ years
Location: Bengaluru
JobType: full-time

We are looking for a highly skilled Golang Developer with 5–7 years of professional software development experience to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Golang, Kubernetes, and Linux, with a proven ability to design, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable and reliable backend systems.

You will work on distributed applications, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure while collaborating closely with product, DevOps, and engineering teams. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems and building high-performance systems in a production environment.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain robust and scalable backend applications using Golang.
• Build and maintain high-performance RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Develop clean, maintainable, reusable, and well-tested Go code following industry best practices.
• Design and implement concurrent and fault-tolerant services using Go's concurrency capabilities such as goroutines and channels.
• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot applications running on Kubernetes clusters.
• Create and maintain Kubernetes resources such as Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and StatefulSets.
• Work extensively in Linux environments, including system troubleshooting, performance monitoring, process management, networking, and shell scripting.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues across application, infrastructure, and Kubernetes layers.
• Collaborate with DevOps engineers to improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, monitoring, and system reliability.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, resource utilization, and system availability.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, technical design, and engineering best-practice initiatives.
• Write unit, integration, and automated tests to ensure application reliability and quality.
• Monitor production systems and proactively identify potential performance, reliability, and scalability issues.
• Maintain technical documentation for applications, APIs, deployment processes, and operational procedures.

Must-Have Skills

• 5–7 years of hands-on software development experience.
• Strong professional experience with Golang (Go) and backend development.
• Excellent understanding of Go programming concepts, concurrency, goroutines, channels, interfaces, error handling, and package management.
• Strong experience designing and developing REST APIs and microservices.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, deployments, services, networking, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Strong proficiency in Linux, including command-line tools, system administration, process management, networking, logs, and troubleshooting.
• Good understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native application architecture.
• Experience with Git and modern software development practices.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and analytical skills.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Docker and containerized applications.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or Redis.
• Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS.
• Familiarity with observability tools, monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools.