Senior Software Engineer – Golang

Jobtailor; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 750,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Sweden seeks a design-minded backend engineer to build production-grade services in Golang. You will design scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems, implement REST and WebSocket APIs, and actively participate in architectural decisions that impact the platform’s reliability and performance.

You will optimize concurrency, tackle performance bottlenecks, and improve developer productivity by advancing testing, monitoring, and deployment practices within AWS-based environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on Golang development experience.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and backend architecture.
• Experience with event-driven systems.
• Solid SQL and data modelling skills.
• Experience building REST and/or WebSocket APIs.
• Experience working within cloud environments (AWS preferred).
• Strong understanding of concurrency, synchronization, and fault-tolerant systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services using Go in production systems.
• Develop scalable, high-availability distributed architectures.
• Build REST and WebSocket APIs and event-driven workflows.
• Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and production issues.
• Contribute to engineering best practices and coding standards.

Skills

Years of experience

Golang development

Distributed systems

Event-driven systems

SQL & data modelling

REST/WebSocket APIs

Cloud environments (AWS)

Concurrency & fault tolerance

Job description

Overview

Design and develop production-grade backend services using Golang. Build scalable, highly available distributed systems. Participate in architectural design and technical decision-making. Develop APIs and event-driven workflows. Write clean, maintainable, and testable code. Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and production issues. Drive improvements around scalability, reliability, and developer productivity. Contribute to engineering best practices and technical standards.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years of hands-on Golang development experience
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and backend architecture
• Experience with event-driven systems
• Solid SQL and data modelling skills
• Experience building REST and/or WebSocket APIs
• Experience working within cloud environments (AWS preferred)
• Strong understanding of concurrency, synchronization, and fault-tolerant systems