Senior Go Backend Engineer - Scalable Microservices

Bonapolia; Athens (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bonapolia is seeking a Senior Go Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services in a microservices architecture. You will drive research, define architectures, and collaborate across teams to ensure production quality and observability.

The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of backend experience, strong Go expertise, and deep knowledge of SQL databases, data modeling, and cloud-native deployment with Docker/Kubernetes. Remote-ready and fast-paced project environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production backend engineering experience
• Strong Go expertise: concurrency, synchronization, context propagation, goroutine lifecycle management, and graceful shutdown
• Experience with high-load distributed systems and microservice architecture
• Strong SQL and data modelling: schema design, joins, indexes, query analysis, replication, partitioning, and sharding
• Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL and Redis caching strategies
• Sync/async inter-service communication using gRPC and message brokers, including delivery guarantees and idempotency
• Observability: metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and Go profiling
• Understanding of NFRs, SLA/SLO/SLI, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud platforms
• Maintainable, testable code; unit/integration testing; Git and code review workflows

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and features
• Drive technical research, architecture design, and implementation
• Collaborate across teams, conduct reviews, and contribute to architectural discussions
• Own service delivery, production monitoring, maintenance, and observability
• Mentor engineers and participate in agile ceremonies

Skills

Go expertise

Concurrency control

Distributed systems

SQL / data modeling

PostgreSQL / MySQL

Redis caching

gRPC

Message brokers

Observability

Docker & Kubernetes

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Code testing

Code reviews

Git

Tools

Git

Kafka

NATS

RabbitMQ

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

Bonapolia is seeking a Senior Go Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services in a microservices architecture. You will drive research, define architectures, and collaborate across teams to ensure production quality and observability.

The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of backend experience, strong Go expertise, and deep knowledge of SQL databases, data modeling, and cloud-native deployment with Docker/Kubernetes. Remote-ready and fast-paced project environment.