Remote Golang Architect Lead for Cloud-Native Systems

Envision Technology Solutions; Los Angeles (CA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Envision Technology Solutions is seeking a Golang Architect/Lead to drive the architecture, design, and development of scalable Go-based applications. You will lead high-performance microservices, REST APIs, and gRPC services in a remote, long-term contract environment.

You will mentor engineers, define patterns and best practices, collaborate with product managers, DevOps, QA, and other teams, and ensure secure, reliable, and maintainable cloud-native solutions at scale.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with Go.
• Strong knowledge of Go concurrency, goroutines, channels, interfaces, error handling, and performance optimization.
• Extensive experience with microservices and distributed systems architecture.
• Strong experience developing RESTful APIs and gRPC services.
• Proficiency with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or Redis.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform cloud technologies.
• Experience with messaging/event-streaming platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.
• Strong understanding of Git, Agile methodologies, and modern software development practices.
• Excellent technical leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and development of scalable Golang applications.
• Define technical architecture, design patterns, coding standards, and engineering best practices.
• Design and develop high-performance microservices, REST APIs, and gRPC services.
• Build distributed and cloud-native systems focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Lead technical design discussions, code reviews, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, DevOps, QA, and other engineering teams.
• Mentor developers and provide technical guidance on Go development and system architecture.
• Design and implement integrations with databases, messaging systems, and third-party services.
• Drive containerization and deployment using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement observability, logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing solutions.
• Ensure applications follow security, reliability, scalability, and maintainability best practices.

Skills

Go expertise

Concurrency & performance

Microservices & distributed systems

RESTful APIs & gRPC

Databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB/</

Docker & Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Messaging systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ)

Git & Agile

Technical leadership

Communication skills

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Envision Technology Solutions is seeking a Golang Architect/Lead to drive the architecture, design, and development of scalable Go-based applications. You will lead high-performance microservices, REST APIs, and gRPC services in a remote, long-term contract environment.

You will mentor engineers, define patterns and best practices, collaborate with product managers, DevOps, QA, and other teams, and ensure secure, reliable, and maintainable cloud-native solutions at scale.