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Job Title: Senior Software Engineer/ Lead Analyst - Go Lang developer
Position: Senior Software Engineer// Lead Analyst
Experience: 5-7 Years
Category: Software development / Engineering
Shift: General Shift
Main location: Bangalore/Hyderabad/Chennai/Pune/Mumbai
Position ID: J0626-2047
Employment Type: Full Time

Education Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or higher with minimum 3 years of relevant experience.

Position Description: We are looking for an experienced Go Lang Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate should be passionate about coding and developing scalable and high-performance applications. You will work closely with our back-end developers, designers, and other members of the team to deliver quality solutions that meet the needs of our clients.

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services and microservices using Go (Golang).
• Build and optimize REST APIs, WebSocket-based real-time systems, and gRPC services for scalable distributed applications.
• Develop resilient, fault-tolerant services with robust error handling, logging, observability, and retry mechanisms.
• Design and implement event-driven architectures using NATS and Kafka.
• Create efficient data access layers, schema designs, and query strategies for PostgreSQL and Cassandra.
• Implement advanced caching strategies using Redis to improve application performance and reduce latency.
• Build secure authentication and authorization mechanisms for internal and external APIs.
• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Work with AWS and Azure services to build and maintain cloud-native applications.
• Collaborate closely with frontend, DevOps, QA, and product teams to deliver reliable and scalable solutions.
• Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, technical standards, and engineering best practices.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

Must-Have Skills:
Golang Expertise

• Strong understanding of Go language internals and runtime behaviour
• Advanced experience with:

o concurrency patterns
o goroutines and channels
o synchronization primitives
o context propagation and cancellation
o memory management and garbage collection
o profiling tools such as pprof and benchmarking techniques

• Databases and Caching
• Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL
• Experience with Cassandra or other NoSQL databases
• Strong understanding of database schema design, indexing, query optimization, and performance tuning
• Experience implementing caching strategies using Redis
• Messaging and Event Streaming
• Hands-on experience with message brokers / event streaming platforms such as:

o NATS
o Kafka

• Good understanding of asynchronous communication, consumer groups, event ordering, retries, and failure handling
• Cloud, Containers, and DevOps
• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience deploying and managing services on AWS and/or Azure
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices
• Strong knowledge of Git-based workflows and release processes

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Familiarity in using AI tools like GitHub CO-Pilot and Codex
• Exposure to service mesh, API gateways, and cloud-native observability tools
• Experience with distributed tracing, metrics, and centralized logging
• Knowledge of security best practices for APIs and distributed systems
• Contributions to open-source projects or technical communities
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

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