Backend Developer (Golang)

Businesslist; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Businesslist in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design, deploy, and operate scalable Go services on AWS. You will build reliable, high-performance systems using Go, Kubernetes, Kafka, and Couchbase, with a focus on throughput, scaling, and reliability.

The role emphasizes ownership from design to production, evidence-based decisions, and robust testing. It is a permanent, hybrid position located in Bangsar South, KL with 3 days WFH.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of professional backend software experience in cloud-native environments.
• Hands-on Go (Golang) production backend development.
• Experience building high-throughput, scalable services on AWS.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Go.
• Build scalable, distributed, event-driven systems handling thousands of TPS.
• Design interfaces, data flows, and patterns for independent deployment and scaling.
• Identify bottlenecks and optimize performance and concurrency.
• Operate containerized workloads with Kubernetes and manage cloud resources.

Skills

Go (Golang)

AWS

Kubernetes

Kafka

Couchbase

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

SQL/NoSQL databases

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Software Eng or related

Tools

Docker

Terraform

CloudWatch/OpenTelemetry

Job description

Industry: Software Development

Location: Bangsar South, KL

Purpose: New project/new team

Working term: Permanent

Working hours: Mon-Fri, 9.30am – 6.30pm (Hybrid, 3 days WFH)

Open to all nationalities

Position Overview

We are seeking a skilled Backend Software Engineer to design, develop, deploy, and operate scalable backend services on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The successful candidate will build reliable, high-performance systems using Go (Golang), Kubernetes, Kafka, and relational and NoSQL databases.

This role requires practical experience developing and operating production systems that handle thousands of transactions per second, scale dynamically in response to changing workloads, and maintain performance and reliability under load.

We are looking for an engineer who combines strong programming fundamentals with sound architectural judgment, takes ownership of their work from design through production, and consistently delivers maintainable, well-tested software.

Key Responsibilities

Backend Development and Architecture

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Go (Golang).

• Build scalable, distributed, and event-driven systems capable of handling thousands of transactions per second.

• Design service interfaces, data flows, and integration patterns that support independent deployment, horizontal scaling, and future growth.

• Apply sound software design principles, appropriate abstractions, and proven architectural patterns without introducing unnecessary complexity.

• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, concurrency issues, and resource constraints.

AWS Cloud Infrastructure and Dynamic Scaling

• Develop and deploy production services on AWS using appropriate computer, networking, storage, and managed service offerings.

• Implement horizontally scalable services that dynamically adjust capacity in response to changing traffic and processing demand.

• Deploy and operate containerized workloads using Kubernetes.

• Configure and optimize autoscaling, resource allocation, health checks, and service recovery.

• Apply infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment practices to ensure repeatable, consistent environments.

• Consider performance, availability, security, and cloud operating costs when making engineering decisions.

Event Processing and Data Management

• Build asynchronous, event-driven processing pipelines using Apache Kafka.

• Design reliable message producers and consumers, including appropriate handling of retries, duplicate messages, ordering, and processing failures.

• Design and optimize relational database schemas, SQL queries, indexes, transactions, and data migrations.

• Design, develop, and optimize NoSQL data models using Couchbase, ensuring efficient data access, high throughput, scalability, and performance in distributed systems.

• Understand data consistency, concurrency, transaction boundaries, and the trade-offs between relational and NoSQL storage.

• Ensure data integrity and resilience across distributed services.

Quality, Reliability, and Production Operations

• Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code supported by automated unit, integration, and appropriate end-to-end tests.

• Participate constructively in code reviews, design reviews, and technical discussions.

• Instrument services with meaningful logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerts.

• Troubleshoot production issues through systematic investigation and root-cause analysis.

• Design for failure, including dependency outages, traffic spikes, timeouts, partial failures, and message-processing errors.

• Participate in production support and incident response as appropriate for the team.

• Continuously improve service performance, reliability, security, and maintainability.

Engineering Collaboration and Ownership

• Translate business and product requirements into practical technical designs and deliverable work.

• Own assigned features and services from initial design through implementation, deployment, and ongoing operation.

• Communicate technical decisions, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs clearly.

• Collaborate with other engineers, product stakeholders, and infrastructure teams.

• Contribute to engineering standards and help improve development practices across the team.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend systems in an AWS or comparable cloud-native environment.

• Strong, hands-on proficiency in Go (Golang) for production backend development.

• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating services handling thousands of transactions per second, with the ability to explain how throughput and performance were measured.

• Practical experience implementing dynamic scaling and horizontal scaling for production workloads.

• Hands-on experience deploying and operating containerized applications using Kubernetes.

• Practical experience with Apache Kafka, including producers, consumers, topics, partitions, consumer groups, and failure handling.

• Hands-on experience with relational databases (RDBMS) and NoSQL databases, specifically Couchbase, including data modelling, querying, indexing, and performance optimization.

• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, service integration, concurrency, and distributed systems fundamentals.

• Experience with automated testing, version control, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Understanding of production monitoring, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and service reliability.

• Strong problem-solving skills, sound technical judgment, and the ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with a team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS services such as EKS, EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, or related services, as relevant to the architecture.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.

• Familiarity with Docker, Helm, Kubernetes autoscaling, and resource management.

• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or CloudWatch.

• Understanding of distributed system reliability patterns, including idempotency, backpressure, circuit breakers, rate limiting, and graceful degradation.

• Experience with load testing, capacity planning, latency analysis, and performance profiling.

• Knowledge of cloud security fundamentals, including IAM, least-privilege access, secrets management, encryption, and secure API design.

• Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure for cost and operational efficiency.

Engineering Standards and Expectations

• Ownership: Take responsibility for delivering working software and maintaining its production health, not just completing assigned coding tasks.

• Technical depth: Understand why a solution works, its limitations, and how it behaves under load and failure.

• Quality by design: Treat automated testing, code review, security, and observability as standard parts of development.

• Evidence-based decisions: Use measurements, benchmarks, logs, and production data to validate assumptions and diagnose problems.

• Pragmatic architecture: Choose solutions that meet current requirements while allowing for sensible future growth; avoid both premature optimization and avoidable technical debt.

• Continuous improvement: Learn from incidents, feedback, code reviews, and new technologies, and turn those lessons into better engineering practices.

• Clear communication: Explain technical decisions and trade-offs in language appropriate for both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Education

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field is preferred. Equivalent professional experience and demonstrated technical ability are acceptable.

Sub Specialization : Information Technology;Software Engineer/ Developer Type of Employment : Permanent Minimum Experience : 3 Years Work Location : Kuala Lumpur