Senior Go Backend Engineer - High-Load, Scalable Microservices

Bonapolia; Georgia; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Bonapolia is seeking a Senior Go Developer to join our product delivery team, focused on the end-to-end passenger experience in a ride-hailing app. You will design, implement, and optimize robust backend services, collaborating across teams to deliver scalable solutions in a high-load environment.

You will work with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms, contributing to architecture discussions and improving observability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial backend engineering experience in production environments.
• Strong Go expertise, including concurrency, synchronization primitives, context propagation, goroutine lifecycle management, and graceful shutdown patterns.
• Experience building and supporting high-load distributed systems.
• Recent product development experience involving complex business logic and evolving requirements.
• Strong SQL and data modelling skills, including schema design, joins, aggregations, composite indexes, data type selection, query analysis, and scaling strategies such as replication, partitioning, and sharding.
• Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Strong understanding of caching strategies, including Redis, cache-aside, warm-up, and background refresh.
• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous inter-service communication, including gRPC and message brokers, delivery guarantees, idempotency, and load-balancing trade-offs.
• Deep understanding of microservice architecture patterns and efficient client-server interactions, including their trade-offs and limitations.
• Hands-on experience with observability tools and practices, including metrics, logging, distributed tracing, alerting, and Go profiling with pprof.
• Understanding of non-functional requirements, SLA, SLO, and SLI.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms.
• Ability to write maintainable, testable code with solid unit and integration test coverage.
• Proficiency with Git and modern code review workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable backend services according to business needs.
• Drive technical research, architecture design, and implementation of backend services and new features.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver cohesive and optimal solutions.
• Actively participate in code reviews and architectural discussions and help raise the overall technical level of backend services.
• Write clean, effective, and maintainable code in accordance with company standards.
• Take ownership of the backend services lifecycle, including delivery, monitoring, and maintenance in the production environment.
• Set up and maintain observability infrastructure, including metrics, logging, dashboards, and tracing.
• Mentor and guide other engineers, advocating for best practices and high standards.

Skills

Go backend

Concurrency

Distributed systems

SQL design

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Redis caching

gRPC, message brokers

Microservice architecture

Observability (pprof)

Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD

Git & code reviews

Tools

Kafka

NATS

RabbitMQ

Job description

Bonapolia is seeking a Senior Go Developer to join our product delivery team, focused on the end-to-end passenger experience in a ride-hailing app. You will design, implement, and optimize robust backend services, collaborating across teams to deliver scalable solutions in a high-load environment.

You will work with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms, contributing to architecture discussions and improving observability.