Senior Go Backend Engineer – Fintech/Crypto (Remote)

EMCD; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work worldwide

Flexible hours

Paid vacation days

Job summary

EMCD is seeking a Senior Go Developer to join a backend team, building high-load services for financial and mining products. You will work on transaction lifecycles, money flows, and core architecture modernization.

The role requires strong Go and PostgreSQL skills, experience with gRPC/REST and Kafka, and a track record of applying microservice patterns to financial systems. Remote work is fully supported.

Qualifications

• Production experience with money operations in fintech or crypto: holds, debits, credits, balances, transaction lifecycle, and reconciliation.
• Strong knowledge of safe money movement: decimal precision, operation keys, idempotency, consistency, and auditability.
• Strong production experience with Go, PostgreSQL, gRPC/REST, and Kafka.
• Real experience applying microservice patterns to financial systems: Saga, compensation, distributed transactions, outbox, idempotent consumers, and reconciliation loops.
• Experience integrating external providers via REST with timeouts, provider-side statuses, delayed reversals, and reconciliation.

Responsibilities

• Build new backend services in Go and improve existing products.
• Integrate external providers via REST and internal services via gRPC and Kafka.
• Refactor legacy services to reduce costs, simplify architecture, and improve test coverage.
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and security for financial flows.
• Support production systems, investigate incidents, and track operation lifecycle end to end.
• Provide technical mentorship within the team.

Skills

Go

PostgreSQL

gRPC/REST

Kafka

Microservices

Money operations

Idempotency

Auditability

Distributed transactions

AI agents in development

Job description

EMCD is seeking a Senior Go Developer to join a backend team, building high-load services for financial and mining products. You will work on transaction lifecycles, money flows, and core architecture modernization.

The role requires strong Go and PostgreSQL skills, experience with gRPC/REST and Kafka, and a track record of applying microservice patterns to financial systems. Remote work is fully supported.