Senior Software Engineer - Golang

Senior Software Engineer

Bangalore, India

Shell Recharge Solutions is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Golang

The ideal candidate is an integral part of a fast-paced development team, we are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer (Golang) to design, build, and optimize scalable backend systems. This hands-on individual contributor role is ideal for someone with strong expertise in Golang, microservices architecture, AWS, Kafka, system design, and distributed systems. You will work closely with product, architecture, and engineering teams to deliver high-performance, reliable, and future-ready solutions

Key Responsibilities

Design & Development

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance microservices using Golang.
• Build and optimize distributed backend applications for scalability, low latency, and resilience.
• Develop RESTful and gRPC APIs with clean architecture and high reliability.
• Work with product managers, architects, and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into technical solutions
• Ensure high code quality through best practices, code reviews, testing, and CI/CD pipelines
• Optimize system performance, scalability, and reliability
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering standards and design reviews
• Participate in system architecture discussions and technology evaluations

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, with strong hands-on experience in Golang.
• Strong experience in microservices architecture , service decomposition, and distributed system patterns.
• Experience in Apache Kafka or similar streaming platforms.
• Hands-on experience architecting cloud-native systems on AWS.
• Advanced understanding of system design, concurrency, multithreading, CAP theorem, caching strategies, and scalability .
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong problem-solving skills, performance optimization, and production debugging abilities.
• Solid knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB.
• Experience with cloud platform like AWS, Azure or GCP
• Proficiency with Git, code reviews, and Agile development practices
• Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and performance testing

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).
• Exposure to distributed caching systems (Redis, Memcached).
• Experience with message queues like SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Knowledge of cloud architecture patterns (serverless, event sourcing, sidecar, API gateway patterns).
• Familiarity with gRPC and protobuf schema design.
• Understanding of security practices—IAM, VPC design, network security, secret management.

What We Offer:

• A work environment that allows you to work with and learn from some of the best and brightest in this emerging industry
• The ability to make a difference in a world that needs our technology to help reduce carbon emissions and enable a more sustainable energy future through the use of electric vehicle charging software, services and infrastructure
• The freedom to learn, suggest, and implement innovative new ideas applied to our systems, processes, programs and technologies
• Daily ownership of your role in a challenging, high-growth environment.
• A casual work environment and culture that support work life ‘fit’, enabling you to fit life into your work and work into your life, i.e. flexible scheduling, virtualization options, and a generous holiday package
• Competitive pay and benefits programs designed to enable you to thrive inside and outside of work
• Participation in Shell Recharge Solutions’ performance and rewards bonus program
• Best in class medical benefits for employees
• Innovative Paid Time Off Program