Golang Job: Golang Developer II Charlotte NC - W2 Candidates o

Job Title: Golang Developer

Locations: Charlotte, NC or Pittsburgh, PA (Hybrid)

Duration: Long-term Contract

Job Description:

• We are looking for a highly skilled Golang Developer to join our engineering team.
• The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on experience in building large-scale, distributed, and high-performance systems using Go.
• You should be proficient in Go's concurrency model, microservices architecture, messaging frameworks, and modern development practices.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-throughput applications using Golang.
• Implement and optimize concurrency patterns using Goroutines, Channels, and Worker Pools.
• Build services leveraging Go Modules, clean architecture, and reusable packages.
• Develop and maintain microservices and distributed systems.
• Work with messaging frameworks (RabbitMQ, Kafka) to ensure reliable event-driven communication.
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable code following best practices and design principles.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and cross-functional teams to deliver new features.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize services for high performance and low latency.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving engineering standards and processes.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of overall software development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Golang, including:
• Goroutines, Channels, Concurrency
• Go Modules & Dependency Management
• Error handling & Go best practices
• Strong foundation in Java development.
• Experience with messaging technologies like RabbitMQ, Kafka, or similar.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented design and system architecture principles.
• Proven experience working on highly scalable and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, microservices, and cloud-native application design.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with C#.
• Advanced experience with Kafka / RabbitMQ.
• Hands-on knowledge of PostgreSQL, SQL, and database optimization.
• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure).
• Understanding of gRPC, Protobuf, and API performance tuning.