Golang Engineer

Ztek Consulting, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 152,000; Part time

Job summary

Ztek Consulting, Inc. is seeking a Golang Engineer for a remote contract role. You will deliver code against tickets across multiple workstreams, build Go-based backend services, and extend APIs while integrating with identity-verification and Salesforce/Snowflake systems.

You will write tests, review code, and document technical decisions to enable smooth handoffs in a fast-moving, compliant environment. North America-based contractors preferred.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver working code against scoped tickets across multiple workstreams.
• Build and extend Go-based backend services and APIs.
• Integrate with third-party and internal systems including identity-verification and CRM tools.
• Write tests, participate in code reviews, and follow team conventions.
• Document technical decisions to enable handoff without ongoing presence.

Skills

Go

Backend development

REST APIs

Git/GitHub

CI/CD

Docker

Frontend basics

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

GitHub

Job description

Job Title: Golang Engineer

Location: Remote

Type of hire: Contract

Job Description :

Duties:

• Deliver working code against scoped tickets across the program's workstreams (entity clustering, risk scoring, internal review tooling, due diligence tooling, AI-assisted review)
• Build and extend Go-based backend services capability APIs, risk-scoring logic, data models following existing patterns in the team's codebase
• Build/extend internal tooling surfaces used by compliance agents to review and action business-customer records
• Integrate with third-party and internal systems: identity-verification vendors, Salesforce (DD case management), Snowflake, sanctions screening and clustering services
• Write tests, participate in code review, and follow existing team conventions
• Turn around well-defined tickets quickly across shifting priorities and multiple workstreams; flag blockers, scope creep, or cross-team dependencies rather than absorbing them
• Document technical decisions clearly enough to hand off cleanly this is a delivery engagement, so context needs to transfer without requiring your continued presence

Skills:

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience,
• 4+ backend-leaning or full-stack
• Strong proficiency in Go the primary backend language across this program
• Comfortable working in a modern frontend stack (React/TypeScript, Node) for internal tooling surfaces
• Solid experience building and consuming REST APIs and integrating with third-party vendors
• Strong Git/GitHub workflow fluency (branching, PR review, code owners) and working DevOps knowledge (CI/CD pipelines, containerization/Docker, basic deployment tooling)
• Able to work independently against scoped tickets across multiple concurrent workstreams without needing deep, ongoing onboarding into service ownership
• Strong written communication you document decisions and hand off context cleanly by default
• Ability to effectively utilize coding agents like Claude and Codex to build and review code; working knowledge of consuming MCP tools
• Comfortable in a fast-moving, ambiguous, compliance-adjacent environment
• Based in North America; able to work core Eastern Time collaboration hours

Education:

Undergraduate degree in computer engineering, computer science, information technology or a related discipline.