Golang Developer

About the Role :

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Go (Golang) Developer with deep expertise in developing, deploying, and managing scalable microservices on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). You will be a key player in designing our next-generation, high-performance, and resilient cloud-native platform. The ideal candidate has a strong background in distributed systems, concurrency, and the entire DevOps lifecycle within the Azure ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities :

Microservice Development & Performance (Go) :

- Design and implement robust, highly concurrent, and high-performance microservices using the Go programming language.

- Optimize application performance, focusing on minimizing latency and maximizing resource efficiency by leveraging Goroutines and Channels.

- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services for internal and external consumption.

- Ensure code quality, stability, and maintainability through rigorous unit, integration, and end-to-end

testing, and by actively participating in code reviews.

- Work with various data stores, including NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Cosmos DB) and SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL, Azure SQL Database).

Cloud-Native Deployment & Orchestration (AKS) :

- Architect and implement deployment strategies for Go microservices on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

- Define and manage Kubernetes resources, including Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and

- Ingress (using controllers like Azure Application Gateway Ingress Controller or NGINX).

- Utilize Helm or Kustomize for packaging and deploying applications to various AKS environments.

- Integrate with core Azure services such as Azure Container Registry (ACR), Azure Monitor/Log Analytics, and

- Azure Key Vault for secure deployment and operation.

- Implement and manage Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) and other scaling policies for AKS to ensure optimal resource utilization and high availability.

DevOps & Observability :

- Collaborate with the DevOps team to implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) for automated testing, building, and deployment to AKS.

- Implement robust monitoring, logging, and tracing using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, or Azure

- Monitor to troubleshoot and identify production issues rapidly.

- Contribute to the infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) definition using Terraform or ARM Templates for provisioning and managing AKS clusters and associated Azure resources.

Required Skills & Qualifications :

- 4-11 years of experience in software development, with 3+ years of dedicated experience using Go (Golang) in a production environment.

- Expert proficiency in the Go programming language, its ecosystem, design patterns, concurrency primitives (goroutines, channels), and tooling.

- Strong, hands-on experience with Kubernetes in a production setting, specifically with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

- Proficiency with containerization technologies, particularly Docker.

- Solid understanding of microservices architecture, distributed systems, and inter-service communication patterns.

- Experience with testing frameworks in Go (e.g., standard testing package, testify).

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Preferred (Nice-to-Have) Skills :

- Experience with Kubernetes Operators, Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), and extending the Kubernetes API.

- Familiarity with network policies, service mesh (e.g., Istio, Linkerd), and other advanced AKS/K8s networking concepts.

- Professional certification (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate, CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator/Developer).

- Experience with stream processing technologies like Apache Kafka or Azure Event Hubs.

- Prior experience in a FinTech, AdTech, or high-transaction volume environment.