Golang Developer

F2Onsite; Vienna (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

F2Onsite is looking for an experienced Golang Developer with strong AWS expertise to join their engineering team in Vienna, Virginia. The role requires knowledge in developing scalable backend systems, microservices architecture, and deploying applications in AWS. Responsibilities include designing and deploying services, building resilient applications, and implementing CI/CD pipelines. This is for a 12+ month contract and candidates must be local to the VA/DC/MD/IL area.

Qualifications

• Must have experience with Golang and AWS.
• Strong understanding of microservices and concurrent programming.
• Proven skills in cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy backend services using Golang.
• Build scalable applications hosted in AWS.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines.
• Optimize application performance through monitoring.

Skills

Golang development experience

Microservices architecture

AWS cloud platform (ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB)

Docker and Kubernetes

Git, CI/CD pipelines

RESTful API design

SQL/NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB)

Testing frameworks

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Prometheus

Grafana

New Relic

Job description

Job Title: Golang Developer with AWS Expertise

Bank experience or Client Financial background required. Must be local to VA/DC/MD/IL. Duration: 12+ month contract, with possible extension or conversion.

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Golang Developer with strong AWS expertise to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in developing scalable backend systems using Go (Golang), experience in cloud-native architectures, and hands‑on skills in deploying and managing applications in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Required Qualifications

• Golang development experience.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture and concurrent programming in Go.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS cloud platform, especially ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and CloudWatch.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
• Proficiency with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments.
• Familiarity with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS).
• Strong knowledge of RESTful API design and development.
• Working knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB).
• Solid understanding of testing frameworks and code versioning best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Exposure to monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or New Relic.
• Knowledge of Python or Node.js for scripting or secondary automation.

Job Description

• Design, develop, and deploy backend services and microservices using Golang.
• Build high‑performance, scalable, and resilient applications hosted in AWS.
• Integrate APIs, data sources, and third‑party systems using REST or gRPC.
• Work with AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, EC2, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, RDS, API Gateway, and SNS/SQS.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Develop infrastructure‑as‑code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Optimize application performance and reliability through monitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Collaborate with DevOps and front‑end teams to ensure seamless system integration.
• Write unit, integration, and load tests to maintain code quality and reliability.