Mid/Senior-level Golang Data Engineer

Inca Digital; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Inca Digital, a veteran-owned data and intelligence company, seeks a Go backend engineer to design, build, and operate scalable services in a fully remote setting. You will work with AWS, REST/gRPC APIs, Kafka, and modern data stores to deliver robust analytics pipelines and client-facing APIs.

You will join a cross-disciplinary team including engineers, data scientists, and investigators to translate requirements into scalable, maintainable systems with strong emphasis on data quality and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience developing backend services with Golang.
• Good knowledge of Go fundamentals, including concurrency, testing, etc.
• Experience with REST APIs and/or gRPC
• Experience working in AWS environments
• Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka/RabbitMQ/SQS/etc
• Experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB/Redis/DynamoDB
• Familiarity with microservices and distributed systems
• Experience with Docker, Git, and CI/CD

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services in Go.
• Develop and maintain REST APIs and/or gRPC endpoints.
• Work in AWS-based environments and with messaging systems.
• Collaborate on microservices architecture and data storage choices.
• Contribute to observability and deployment automation.

Skills

Go / Golang

REST APIs

gRPC

AWS

Microservices

Distributed systems

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

Kafka

CI/CD

Tools

Docker

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

About Us:Inca Digital is a veteran-owned data and intelligence company specializing in digital-asset analytics for exchanges, financial institutions, regulators, and blockchain ecosystems. Our technology and expertise provide clarity across crypto markets, tracking blockchain transactions, liquidity movements, and illicit finance, helping clients identify risk, enhance transparency, and improve decision-making. Inca's infrastructure fuses structured and unstructured data from blockchains, exchanges, social networks, and financial markets. The result is a powerful analytics engine that supports ecosystem monitoring, market surveillance, and counter-illicit finance intelligence across digital-asset networks. Inca operates as a fast-paced, nimble, global, and remote technology company. We leverage an asynchronous-first workflow, try to minimize time spent on meetings, and believe in open debate and logic over authority. Work alongside some of the sharpest minds in the world, including intelligence analysts, defense veterans, data engineers, quant researchers, linguists, and more.

Areas of Work

• Design, build, and operate end-to-end batch and incremental ETL/ELT pipelines, turning raw data into production-grade APIs, dashboards, and automated alerts.
• High-throughput data acquisition from diverse sources: relational databases, third-party and vendor APIs, flat files, blockchain nodes and indexers, and social and web text at scale.
• Develop NLP pipelines working with unstructured and semi-structured text data — entity and claim extraction, classification, deduplication, and enrichment feeding downstream risk models.
• Case management, report generation, and intelligence portal supporting data systems.
• Partner with the Head of R&D, engineers, data scientists, and our investigations team to translate intelligence requirements into scalable client-facing products.
• Contribute to technical design and architecture in a written, argued design process.
• Support improving system data quality and system maintenance: versioning, validation, lineage, reconciliation, and freshness monitoring.

What We Require

• 3+ years of professional experience developing backend services with Golang
• Good knowledge of Go fundamentals, including concurrency, testing, etc
• Experience with REST APIs and/or gRPC
• Experience working in AWS environments
• Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka/RabbitMQ/SQS/etc
• Experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB/Redis/DynamoDB
• Familiarity with microservices and distributed systems
• Experience with Docker, Git, and CI/CD

Nice to Have

• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Familiarity with observability tooling and practices
• We operate in a fully remote, high-trust environment, and we prioritize impact and delivered results over hours logged.
• We offer competitive compensation paired with a comprehensive benefits suite, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
• We invest in our people through childcare and wellness stipends and dedicated employee assistance resources.
• Join a thought leader at the intersection of national security and digital assets, working with cutting-edge tech that defines the field.

Curious about how we build at Inca Digital? Hear directly from our Head of R&D on how our team builds the infrastructure that powers Inca's intelligence, merging financial, natural language, and blockchain data into custom dashboards and automation tools built around each client's needs.

Inclusion & Equal Opportunity: As a veteran-owned company, Inca Digital thrives on diverse perspectives, specifically across race, gender, neurodivergence, and veteran status, to solve complex data challenges. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer; all qualified applicants receive consideration without regard to protected status, including disability or national origin.