Go Developer

The Vault; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Competitive salary

Annual performance bonus

Direct access to business

Job summary

The Vault seeks a Go Developer to join its engineering team in a financial group delivering backend services for investment and banking products. You’ll work on microservices, BFFs, and integrations with brokerage, payment, and data providers.

You’ll participate in architecture design, ensure reliability, and focus on security with KYC/AML considerations. The role requires strong Go experience, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Docker, and Kubernetes, with Russian as the team language and English for

Qualifications

• 3+ years of commercial Go development experience.
• Solid knowledge of the standard library and concurrency (goroutines, channels, context).
• Experience with gRPC/REST and PostgreSQL or other relational DBs.
• Experience with Kafka or similar message brokers.
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes at the developer level.
• Ability to write tests and participate in code reviews.
• Russian as team language; English to read documentation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evolve backend services in Go (microservices, BFF for mobile and web).
• Design and implement integrations with external financial APIs (brokerage, payments).
• Work with event-driven architecture on Kafka and ClickHouse.
• Participate in design discussions, write tech designs, and conduct code reviews.
• Ensure service reliability with metrics, logs, alerts, and incident reviews.
• Address authentication, anti-fraud measures, and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Go programming

Concurrency

Testing

English communication

Russian language

Tools

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

ClickHouse

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)
• Competitive salary
• Annual performance bonus
• Fully remote work
• Product development, no outstaffing, influence on architecture and roadmap
• Small team, minimal bureaucracy, direct access to the business
• Working hours are from 9:00 to 18:00 (Cyprus Time)
• 24 working days of paid annual leave, in addition to statutory public and bank holidays in Cyprus
• 14 working days of paid sick leave per calendar year