Golang Technical Lead

TechDigital Group; Duluth (MN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

TechDigital Group is seeking a Senior Golang Architect/Lead to design and scale microservices. You will drive code quality, DevOps practices, and cloud-first delivery across Azure, GCP, and AWS. You’ll mentor engineers, shape architecture decisions, and partner with product teams to deliver robust backend services.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in software development, 5+ years with Go, and strong distributed systems experience in modern cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of overall software development experience.
• 5+ years of hands‑on Golang experience.
• 2+ years in technical leadership roles.
• Strong experience with distributed systems and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable Golang‑based microservices.
• Define coding standards and best practices for Go development.
• Evaluate and select Go frameworks, libraries, and tools.
• Conduct design and code reviews.
• Champion security, quality, and DevOps/SRE practices.
• Develop backend services and APIs using Golang.
• Build event‑driven and asynchronous systems.
• Deploy containerized applications on cloud platforms.
• Collaborate with product and architecture teams.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues.
• Mentor engineers on Go best practices and system design.
• Act as technical anchor for the team.
• Partner with engineering managers on planning and delivery.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement.

Skills

Golang

REST APIs

gRPC

Concurrency

SQL

NoSQL

Observability

Cloud-native

Containerization

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Azure

GCP

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Mandatory Skills

• Experience in Retail or E-commerce domain.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Golang for scalable microservices.
• Experience with REST and gRPC APIs.
• Strong understanding of goroutines, channels, and concurrency patterns.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Performance tuning and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog.
• Cloud‑native development and containerization experience.

Project Tech Stack

• Backend: Golang, REST, gRPC
• Cloud: Azure (primary), GCP, AWS
• Databases: PostgreSQL, Spanner, Bigtable, Cassandra
• Caching & Messaging: Redis, Kafka, Pub/Sub
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
• CI/CD & DevOps: GitLab CI, Jenkins, Terraform
• Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Design and architect scalable Golang‑based microservices.
• Define coding standards and best practices for Go development.
• Evaluate and select Go frameworks, libraries, and tools.
• Conduct design and code reviews.
• Champion security, quality, and DevOps/SRE practices.

Hands‑On Development & Execution

• Develop backend services and APIs using Golang.
• Build event‑driven and asynchronous systems.
• Deploy containerized applications on cloud platforms.
• Collaborate with product and architecture teams.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues.

Team Leadership & Mentorship

• Mentor engineers on Go best practices and system design.
• Act as technical anchor for the team.
• Partner with engineering managers on planning and delivery.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement.

Qualifications & Experience Required

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of overall software development experience.
• 5+ years of hands‑on Golang experience.
• 2+ years in technical leadership roles.
• Strong experience with distributed systems and cloud platforms.