Remote Go Backend Engineer - Scalable Microservices

Placements24; Polokwane; Remoto; ZAR 800.000 - 1.200.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Health insurance

Professional development opportunities

Remote-first culture

Descrizione del lavoro

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong Go expertise to build scalable backend services and microservices for a remote-first team based in South Africa. You will design, implement, test, and deploy high-performance APIs, work closely with product managers and engineers, and contribute to architecture decisions in a distributed, globally distributed environment.

The role emphasizes robust code, scalable systems, and ongoing learning in Go, modern databases, and cloud

Competenze

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years in software development.
• 2+ years with Go (Golang).
• Strong knowledge of concurrent programming and distributed systems.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Docker. Cloud familiarity is a plus.

Mansioni

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable backend services and APIs using Go (Golang).
• Write clean, efficient, well-tested, and maintainable code.
• Collaborate effectively with product managers, designers, and other engineers in a remote setting.
• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex technical issues.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and advocate for best practices in software development.
• Optimize application performance and scalability.
• Work with various data storage solutions (SQL, NoSQL).
• Stay current with the latest developments in Go and the broader software engineering landscape.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes and tools.

Conoscenze

Go

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Docker

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

AWS

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Strumenti

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

AWS

Descrizione del lavoro

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong Go expertise to build scalable backend services and microservices for a remote-first team based in South Africa. You will design, implement, test, and deploy high-performance APIs, work closely with product managers and engineers, and contribute to architecture decisions in a distributed, globally distributed environment.

The role emphasizes robust code, scalable systems, and ongoing learning in Go, modern databases, and cloud