Senior Go Backend Engineer for Scalable Microservices

Cognizant; Troy (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Back End Go Developer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs powering enterprise applications. You will collaborate with product managers, architects, QA, developers, and DevOps across a fast-paced agile team.

The role focuses on developing distributed systems, microservices, and secure, high-performance backend solutions using Go, RESTful and gRPC interfaces, and cloud-native practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing backend applications using Go (Golang).
• Strong understanding of software design principles, object-oriented programming concepts, and distributed systems.
• Experience developing RESTful APIs, gRPC services, and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience building microservices and event-driven applications.
• Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or MySQL.
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Redis, or DynamoDB.
• Familiarity with messaging technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, or similar platforms.
• Experience implementing automated testing, including unit, integration, and API testing.
• Experience with Git-based source control workflows and modern branching strategies.
• Understanding of CI/CD practices and deployment automation.
• Experience working with Docker and containerized applications.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience working within Agile development teams using tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services and APIs using Go (Golang).
• Collaborate with product owners, software architects, frontend developers, QA engineers, and DevOps teams to deliver new features and enhancements.
• Develop scalable and maintainable microservices and distributed applications.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs, gRPC services, and event-driven integrations.
• Build secure, performant, and reliable backend systems that adhere to established architecture and development standards.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following industry best practices.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving code quality and engineering practices across teams.
• Design and implement data access layers, business logic, and integration services.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve production issues, application defects, and performance bottlenecks.
• Develop automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure software quality.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation processes.
• Work with cloud services, containerized environments, and orchestration platforms.
• Monitor application performance, availability, and operational health.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, API specifications, and implementation details.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Contribute to ongoing modernization and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Go (Golang)

RESTful APIs

gRPC

Microservices

Distributed systems

Git

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering/Software Engineering/Computer Science/Information Technology

Tools

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

MySQL

MongoDB

Redis

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Azure Service Bus

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

OpenAPI/Swagger

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Back End Go Developer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs powering enterprise applications. You will collaborate with product managers, architects, QA, developers, and DevOps across a fast-paced agile team.

The role focuses on developing distributed systems, microservices, and secure, high-performance backend solutions using Go, RESTful and gRPC interfaces, and cloud-native practices.