Job Description
About the Role
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Viable Solutions is seeking an experienced Golang Backend Developer to design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services and APIs. You will work on building scalable, concurrent, and production‐grade Go applications in a cloud‐native environment.
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Key Responsibilities
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Design and develop high-performance backend services and microservices using Go (Golang)
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Build and maintain RESTful and gRPC APIs
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Implement concurrency patterns using Go goroutines, channels, and interfaces
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Develop and optimise database interactions across relational and NoSQL databases
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Integrate with message brokers — Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ
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Containerise and deploy Go applications using Docker and Kubernetes
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Write comprehensive unit and integration tests using Go testing frameworks
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Conduct code reviews and ensure code quality standards are maintained
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Collaborate with cross‐functional teams in an Agile delivery environment
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Required Skills & Experience
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5–8+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years hands‐on in Go (Golang) — mandatory
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Strong proficiency in idiomatic Go — goroutines, channels, interfaces, and error handling
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Experience building RESTful and gRPC APIs in production environments
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Solid understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems
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Experience with Go frameworks — Gin, Echo, Fiber, or Chi
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Strong SQL skills — PostgreSQL or MySQL in production
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Experience with NoSQL databases — MongoDB, Redis, or DynamoDB
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Hands‐on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
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Experience with AWS — EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, or Fargate
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Solid understanding of API security — OAuth 2.0, JWT, and OpenID Connect
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Experience with CI/CD pipelines — GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar
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Nice to Have
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Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf)
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Knowledge of NATS or Kafka Streams for event‐driven architecture
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Familiarity with OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing
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Exposure to Terraform for infrastructure as code
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Contributions to open‐source Go projects
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Education & Certifications
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent experience
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AWS Certified Developer — Associate (advantageous)
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Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) — advantageous
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📌 Developer (Victoria)
🏢 Viable Solutions
📍 Victoria