Senior Go Backend Engineer - Scale & Performance

GXBank; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

GXBank is seeking an experienced backend engineer focused on Go to design and optimize scalable services. You will own microservices, collaborate with infra, product, and experience teams, and contribute to architecture decisions.

The role emphasizes performance tuning, clean code, and modern cloud deployments with Kubernetes and Docker. Candidates should have 3-5+ years in backend development and a solid grasp of RESTful APIs and CI/CD.

Qualifications

• 3+–5 years of backend development experience required.
• Proficient in building scalable backend systems with a focus on Go.
• Strong understanding of design patterns and clean code practices.
• Hands-on experience with microservices and cloud deployments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD processes and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and write Go for scalable backend services.
• Collaborate with engineering to explore architecture for scale and performance.
• Participate in code and design reviews to uphold standards.
• Engage in capacity planning, performance analysis, and tuning.
• Define and prototype feature specifications with product teams.
• Work with infra to build and scale services and perform RC investigations.
• Design, build, analyze, and fix large-scale systems.
• Learn full-stack performance tuning and optimization.

Skills

Golang

RESTful APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

Design patterns

SOLID principles

Clean architecture

Cloud deployment

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Tools

Kafka

SQS

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

GXBank is seeking an experienced backend engineer focused on Go to design and optimize scalable services. You will own microservices, collaborate with infra, product, and experience teams, and contribute to architecture decisions.

The role emphasizes performance tuning, clean code, and modern cloud deployments with Kubernetes and Docker. Candidates should have 3-5+ years in backend development and a solid grasp of RESTful APIs and CI/CD.