Senior Go Engineer: Scalable Backend & Microservices

Bonapolia; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bonapolia is seeking a Senior Go Engineer to design and build scalable backend services in a fast-paced, distributed environment. You will own architectural decisions, performance, and production readiness while mentoring other engineers.

The role demands deep Go expertise, experience with microservices, SQL databases, and modern cloud infrastructure. The position is based in Europe with a start ASAP timeline and a contract model through Bonapolia.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production backend engineering experience and complex product development.
• 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 PostgreSQL or MySQL 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.
• Event-driven architecture experience with Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform or Pulumi.

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.
• Familiarize with technology stack including Go, Microservices, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis, gRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

SQL

Microservices

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis

gRPC

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Pulumi

Git

Job description

Bonapolia is seeking a Senior Go Engineer to design and build scalable backend services in a fast-paced, distributed environment. You will own architectural decisions, performance, and production readiness while mentoring other engineers.

The role demands deep Go expertise, experience with microservices, SQL databases, and modern cloud infrastructure. The position is based in Europe with a start ASAP timeline and a contract model through Bonapolia.