Senior Go Backend Engineer - Real-Time, Low-Latency

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

Job summary

hermeneutic Investments in Singapore seeks a seasoned Backend Engineer to build cloud-native backend systems in Go that support real-time data ingestion and low-latency trading workflows.

You will own production services, mentor engineers, and collaborate with trading, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable, observable, and scalable solutions. A strong emphasis on performance, robustness, and continuous improvement pervades the role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend development experience, including 3+ years with Go in production-grade systems.
• Experience leading large-scale system design and mentoring engineers on engineering best practices.
• Strong knowledge of concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization in Go.
• Proven track record of designing and deploying microservice architectures in high-availability, high-throughput environments.
• Solid understanding of message queues, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous processing.
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture and REST/gRPC APIs.
• Strong understanding of networking data transmission protocols (TCP, UDP, WSS, etc.).
• Experience building and deploying cloud-native applications
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration engines (e.g., ECS, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency with message brokers (e.g., Kafka) and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of data storage technologies such as PostgreSQL, Redis, and time-series databases.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of robust high-performance, cloud-native backend systems using Go that support real-time data processing and low-latency workflows.
• Drive engineering excellence through code quality, best practices, and mentorship of other team members.
• Work closely with trading, product, and infrastructure teams to understand system requirements and deliver performant solutions.
• Take ownership of production services, ensuring reliability, observability, and performance tuning. Optimize systems performance and ensure system stability, reliability, and security.
• Contribute to infrastructure automation and CI/CD improvements to support rapid deployment and operational agility.
• Conduct in-depth code reviews, lead technical discussions, and influence engineering culture and standards.
• Implement automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and participate in code reviews and design discussions.
• Deploy and manage services leveraging cloud-native tools and best practices
• Monitor, debug, and troubleshoot production systems and be a part of the on-call incident response team in a high-uptime environment.

Skills

Go

Backend development

Distributed systems

Microservices

Cloud-native

CI/CD

Observability

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Networking

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Redis

REST/gRPC

TCP/UDP/WSS

Job description

hermeneutic Investments in Singapore seeks a seasoned Backend Engineer to build cloud-native backend systems in Go that support real-time data ingestion and low-latency trading workflows.

You will own production services, mentor engineers, and collaborate with trading, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable, observable, and scalable solutions. A strong emphasis on performance, robustness, and continuous improvement pervades the role.