Senior Backend Developer

PIXELATE EVERYTHING; Puchong; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Puchong is seeking an experienced backend architect to create and maintain high-performance services using Go-zero. The role involves deploying microservices on AWS, integrating with various managed services, and optimizing performance through efficient coding and infrastructure management. The ideal candidate will have experience with Kafka, gRPC, and observability stacks. Benefits include flexible working hours, optical and dental coverage, and a thirteenth month salary.

Benefits

Flexi Working Hours

Optical and Dental

Body Screening and Insurance Claims

13 months salary

Qualifications

• Experienced in backend engineering with microservice frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with running microservices on AWS.
• Strong SQL schema and query optimization skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect, code and maintain GO-zero services for high throughput.
• Apply DDD, CQRS, and event sourcing patterns.
• Integrate with AWS Aurora, ElastiCache and other services.

Skills

Backend engineering

Go-zero

Microservice frameworks

AWS experience

Kafka

gRPC

SQL optimization

Docker

Terraform

Git-based CI/CD

Observability stacks

Job description

• Architect, code and maintain GO-zero(Go) services for high throughput, low latency workloads
• Apply DDD, CQRS, and event souricng patterns, publish/consume Kafka events and expose gRPC for internal traffic and REST via API gateway for external traffic
• Integrate with AWS Aurora, ElastiCache and other AWS managed services, optimize schemas, queries and caching strategy
• Package and ship services with Docker to ECS/ECS, setting autoscaling and health checks
• Tune Go goroutine scheduling and connection pools performance
• Integrate with BetterStack, CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray
• Add and maintain Terraform modules for new infrastructure
• Write unit, integration and contract tests, perform code reviews

Requirements

• Experienced in backend engineering with Go-zero, Go kit or similar microservice framework
• Hands on experience with running microservices on AWS
• Production use of Kafka and gRPC alongside REST
• Strong SQL schema and query optimizatio skills and Redis strategies
• Experienced with Docker, Git-based CI/CD workflows and Terraform
• Familiar with observability stacks and distributed tracing
• Clear written and verbal communication, able to document designs and justify architecturaldecisions

Benefits

• Flexi Working Hours
• Optical and Dental
• Body Screening and Insurance Claims
• 13 months salary