Go Developer

The Vault; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Vault is seeking a Go Developer to join our engineering division of a financial group. You will build backend services, microservices and a BFF for web and mobile clients, and integrate with brokerage and payment systems.

You’ll work in a small cross-functional team (PO, DevOps, QA, designer, backend and frontend) where every engineer influences architecture and product. The team uses Russian as the working language, with English sufficient to read documentation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of commercial Go development experience.
• Solid knowledge of the standard library, concurrency, and network stacks.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes at the developer level.
• Familiarity with distributed systems concepts such as idempotency and retries.
• Experience with financial data security and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evolve backend services in Go (microservices, BFF for mobile and web clients).
• Design integrations with external financial APIs (brokerage and payment providers).
• Work with event-driven architecture on Kafka and ClickHouse.
• Participate in design, write tech designs, and conduct code reviews.
• Ensure service reliability and observability: metrics, logs, alerts, incident reviews.
• Collaborate on security and regulatory compliance for financial data.

Skills

Go

Microservices

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

gRPC/REST

Testing

Concurrency (goroutines)

Code reviews

Tools

GitLab CI

ArgoCD

ClickHouse

AWS (EKS, RDS)

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

We’re looking for a Go Developer to join our engineering division of a financial group. We build products for investment and banking: client personal account, backend services, integrations with brokerage and payment systems, KYC/AML processes. We work in a small cross-functional team (PO, DevOps, QA, designer, backend and frontend), where every engineer influences architecture and product.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and evolve backend services in Go (microservices, BFF for mobile and web clients)
• Design and implement integrations with external financial APIs (brokerage platforms, payment providers, market data providers, custodial services)
• Work with event-driven architecture on Kafka and the ClickHouse analytical data warehouse
• Participate in design: discuss architectural decisions, write tech designs, conduct code reviews
• Ensure service reliability and observability: metrics, logs, alerts, participation in incident review
• Work with financial data security: authentication, anti-fraud mechanisms, regulatory compliance
• 3+ years of commercial Go development experience
• Solid knowledge of the standard library, concurrency (goroutines, channels, context), working with gRPC/REST
• Experience with PostgreSQL (or another relational DB), understanding of transactions and data consistency
• Experience with message brokers (Kafka or similar)
• Understanding of distributed systems principles: idempotency, retries, failure handling
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes at the developer level
• Habit of writing tests and working through code review
• Russian as the team’s working language; English at a level sufficient to read documentation

Nice to Have

• Experience in fintech: brokerage, payments, banking, KYC/AML
• Experience with ClickHouse
• Familiarity with AWS (EKS, RDS, DynamoDB), GitLab CI, ArgoCD
• Experience integrating with financial APIs (Bloomberg/Refinitiv, brokerage APIs, Fireblocks, etc.)
• Experience with observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaLogs)
• Fully remote work
• Product development, no outstaffing, influence on architecture and roadmap
• Small team, minimal bureaucracy, direct access to the business