Senior Go Backend Engineer for EV Charging Platform

Astek; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Astek is seeking a hands-on Senior Golang Backend Engineer to develop, support a cloud-native EV charging platform. You will design scalable backend services, build distributed systems and event-driven workflows to ensure high availability.

Collaborate with tech leads, product, and DevOps to deliver reliable backend solutions. You will work with PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud deployments, focusing on performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience designing RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Strong concurrency and distributed systems understanding.
• Advanced SQL skills with PostgreSQL or similar.
• Experience with event-streaming (Kafka).
• Production systems troubleshooting and support.
• Cloud-native environments with AWS or Azure.
• Docker and Kubernetes experience.
• Experience with distributed, real-time, or high-traffic systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services, RESTful APIs, and microservices using Golang.
• Build scalable event-driven and asynchronous workflows for distributed systems.
• Improve application performance, scalability, reliability, and availability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, performing root cause analysis where required.
• Work with PostgreSQL, including SQL queries, indexing, and performance optimisation.
• Develop and maintain integrations with external platforms and third-party systems.
• Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams on cloud deployments, monitoring, and operational readiness.
• Participate in code reviews and ensure code quality, maintainability, and engineering best practices.
• Take ownership of assigned features and technical deliverables from development through production.

Skills

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Concurrency & distributed systems

SQL (PostgreSQL)

Cloud: AWS/Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

Kafka

Terraform

Job description

Astek is seeking a hands-on Senior Golang Backend Engineer to develop, support a cloud-native EV charging platform. You will design scalable backend services, build distributed systems and event-driven workflows to ensure high availability.

Collaborate with tech leads, product, and DevOps to deliver reliable backend solutions. You will work with PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud deployments, focusing on performance and reliability.