Software Engineer

Strategic Employment Partners (SEP); Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 80,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Employment Partners (SEP) is assisting a national healthcare services organization in recruiting a Golang Developer for a fully remote, 6-month W2 contract with conversion to full-time. You'll write Go services, optimize SQL Server queries, and debug end-to-end while collaborating with external partners.

You'll work on a stack including Go, SQL Server, and Angular, handling performance tuning, security, and reliability.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional Go development.
• Solid grasp of Go fundamentals (slices, maps, concurrency, JSON).
• Strong SQL skills with stored procedures and optimization (SQL Server preferred).
• Healthcare interoperability experience (FHIR/HL7) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Write, test, and debug Go services that integrate with external healthcare systems.
• Write and optimize SQL queries and stored procedures on SQL Server.

Skills

Go development

Go concurrency

SQL knowledge

Healthcare interoperability

Architecture walkthrough

Mentoring/leadership

Tools

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Angular

Job description

Golang Developer - Remote (6-Month Contract to Hire)

About the Company

Our client is an established national healthcare services organization with a growing internal IT engineering team. The team builds and maintains the systems that connect the company’s internal platforms with outside healthcare partners.

About the Role

This is a hands-on, individual contributor role. You’ll spend most of your day writing code: building, testing, and debugging Go services that integrate with external healthcare systems, and writing and optimizing SQL queries and stored procedures on Microsoft SQL Server. The broader stack includes Golang, SQL Server, and Angular.

Compensation, Schedule & Location

• 6-month W2 contract, then conversion to full-time
• Contract rate up to $70/hr; up to $135,000 base plus 10% bonus on conversion
• Fully remote (continental US), standard full-time schedule
• One in-person interview in the Midwest
• Two-step interview process, including a technical interview with live coding

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional, hands-on Go development
• Solid grasp of Go fundamentals, including slices, maps, concurrency (goroutines and channels), and JSON handling
• Strong SQL skills: complex queries, stored procedures, and query optimization (SQL Server preferred; PostgreSQL or MySQL considered)
• Ability to walk through the architecture of recent projects and the parts you built
• Healthcare interoperability experience (FHIR, HL7, or similar) is a plus
• Java, Angular, or AI experience is a plus
• Mentoring or tech lead experience while staying hands-on is a plus