Golang Job: Golang Developer with AWS Expertise

Job Title: Golang Developer with AWS Expertise

Location: Remote

Duration: 12+ Months contract with possible extension/conversion

Job Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Golang Developer with strong AWS expertise to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in developing scalable backend systems using Go (Golang), experience in cloud-native architectures, and hands-on skills in deploying and managing applications in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Required Qualifications:

• Golang development experience.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture and concurrent programming in Go.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud platform particularly with ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and CloudWatch.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
• Proficiency with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments.
• Familiarity with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS).
• Strong knowledge of RESTful API design and development.
• Working knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB).
• Solid understanding of testing frameworks and code versioning best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Exposure to monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or New Relic.
• Knowledge of Python or Node.js for scripting or secondary automation.

Job Description:

• Design, develop, and deploy backend services and microservices using Golang.
• Build high-performance, scalable, and resilient applications hosted in AWS.
• Integrate APIs, data sources, and third-party systems using REST or gRPC.
• Work with AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, EC2, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, RDS, API Gateway, and SNS/SQS.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Optimize application performance and reliability through monitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Collaborate with DevOps and front-end teams to ensure seamless system integration.
• Write unit, integration, and load tests to maintain code quality and reliability.