Senior Backend Engineer (Go) - Scalable Microservices

GXS Bank; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

GX Bank Berhad (GXBank) is recruiting a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, to design and implement scalable Go-based services in Petaling Jaya. You will work with a diverse engineering team to enhance availability, latency, and efficiency of the bank's digital services, participate in architecture decisions, and own several microservices through design, development, and deployment cycles.

The role requires strong backend coding skills, experience with RESTful APIs, and familiarity with

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend development experience.
• Proficient in Go or willingness to learn Golang.
• Experience building scalable microservices and RESTful APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services in Go to improve availability and latency.
• Collaborate with team to explore new architectures for scale.
• Participate in code and design reviews to uphold standards.
• Handle capacity planning, performance tuning, and debugging of production systems.
• Build and maintain microservices with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

Skills

Go

REST APIs

Microservices

SOLID principles

Design patterns

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Code review

Tools

Kafka

SQS

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

GX Bank Berhad (GXBank) is recruiting a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, to design and implement scalable Go-based services in Petaling Jaya. You will work with a diverse engineering team to enhance availability, latency, and efficiency of the bank's digital services, participate in architecture decisions, and own several microservices through design, development, and deployment cycles.

The role requires strong backend coding skills, experience with RESTful APIs, and familiarity with