Go Backend Engineer — Infra, APIs & Cloud Platform

Harnham; Randstad; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Rapid career development

Close collaboration with an experienced team

Job summary

A fast-growing startup in Flevoland is seeking a Software Engineer to design and build backend services using Go. You will work with APIs in GraphQL, gRPC, and REST and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Kubernetes. The role offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to play a significant part in shaping the company's core platform, making it ideal for engineers who thrive in collaborative environments and wish to influence key decisions early in their careers.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience in backend software engineering.
• Proficiency in Go for building and maintaining services and APIs.
• Experience designing and consuming GraphQL, gRPC, and REST APIs.
• Solid understanding of relational databases and confident SQL skills.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Practical experience running services on Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs in Go.
• Develop and manage GraphQL, gRPC, and REST interfaces.
• Work with SQL databases to design schemas and optimise performance.
• Use Terraform for cloud infrastructure management.
• Build and operate containerised workloads on Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with other engineers on deployment practices.

Skills

Backend software engineering

Proficiency in Go

GraphQL APIs

gRPC APIs

REST APIs

SQL

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

A fast-growing startup in Flevoland is seeking a Software Engineer to design and build backend services using Go. You will work with APIs in GraphQL, gRPC, and REST and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Kubernetes. The role offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to play a significant part in shaping the company's core platform, making it ideal for engineers who thrive in collaborative environments and wish to influence key decisions early in their careers.