Senior Backend Developer

PIXELATE EVERYTHING; Subang Jaya; Hybrid; MYR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Malaysia is seeking a backend engineer experienced in Go-zero to architect, code, and maintain microservices for high throughput applications. The role requires hands-on expertise with AWS, Kafka, and gRPC, as well as strong SQL optimization skills. Benefits include flexible working hours and 13 months of salary. Candidates should have excellent communication skills and ability to document designs effectively.

Benefits

Flexi Working Hours

Optical and Dental

Body Screening and Insurance Claims

13 months salary

Qualifications

• Experienced in backend engineering with Go-zero or similar frameworks.
• Hands on experience with running microservices on AWS.
• Production use of Kafka and gRPC.

Responsibilities

• Architect, code and maintain Go-zero services for high throughput.
• Apply DDD, CQRS patterns, and optimize AWS services.
• Write unit and integration tests.

Skills

Backend engineering

Microservices with Go-zero

AWS

Kafka

gRPC

SQL optimization

Docker

Git-based CI/CD

Terraform

Observability stacks

Job description

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Architect, code and maintain GO-zero(Go) services for high trhoughput, 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

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