Senior Go Developer

🔥 30 minutes ago

🌐 Portugal, Georgia, +3 more countries – Remote

🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote 🇬🇪 Georgia – Remote 🇦🇲 Armenia – Remote 🇷🇸 Serbia – Remote 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Bonapolia

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Bonapolia is a recruitment and talent-matching firm focused on connecting candidates with technology and engineering roles through a candidate-centric, client-partner approach. The company operates a global, largely remote job marketplace and offers career counseling, interview coordination, and relocation support (notably to Portugal) while building long-term relationships with clients to deliver hired talent efficiently. Bonapolia emphasizes scalable boutique recruitment services, training support for employees, and a streamlined application/connect process for job seekers.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and reliable backend services according to business needs • Drive technical research, architecture design, and implementation of backend services and new features • Collaborate across teams to deliver cohesive and optimal solutions • Participate in code reviews and architectural discussions • Help raise the overall technical level of backend services • Write clean, effective, and maintainable code according to company standards • Own the backend services lifecycle, including delivery, monitoring, and production maintenance • Set up and maintain observability infrastructure, including metrics, logging, dashboards, and tracing • Mentor and guide other engineers while advocating best practices and high standards • Work on the end-to-end passenger experience for a ride-hailing application • Complete English check, internal technical interview, client interview, and client cultural-fit interview stages

🎯 Requirements

• Intermediate English proficiency • Candidate must be located in the EU, Georgia, Armenia, Serbia, or Kazakhstan • Ability to work in the CET time zone • 5+ years of commercial backend engineering experience in production environments • Strong Go expertise, including concurrency, synchronization primitives, context propagation, goroutine lifecycle management, and graceful shutdown patterns • Experience building and supporting high-load distributed systems • Recent product development experience involving complex business logic and evolving requirements • Strong SQL and data modelling skills, including schema design, joins, aggregations, composite indexes, data type selection, query analysis, replication, partitioning, and sharding • Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL • Strong understanding of caching strategies, including Redis, cache-aside, warm-up, and background refresh • Experience with synchronous and asynchronous inter-service communication, including gRPC and message brokers, delivery guarantees, idempotency, and load-balancing trade-offs • Deep understanding of microservice architecture patterns and efficient client-server interactions, including trade-offs and limitations • Hands-on experience with observability tools and practices, including metrics, logging, distributed tracing, alerting, and Go profiling with pprof • Understanding of non-functional requirements, SLA, SLO, and SLI • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms • Ability to write maintainable, testable code with solid unit and integration test coverage • Proficiency with Git and modern code review workflows • Ability to explain project architecture at the required level of depth • Ability to independently transform ambiguous problems into solutions by clarifying requirements and workload • Nice to have: event-driven architecture experience with Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ • Nice to have: familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools • Nice to have: Go performance profiling and optimisation using pprof and trace • Nice to have: familiarity with design handoff tools and cross-platform collaboration workflows • Nice to have: experience using AI-assisted development tools

🏖️ Benefits

• B2B contract with Bonapolia • Monthly invoicing and payment, usually on the same schedule the client pays Bonapolia (usually 30 days) • Contract written under the candidate's country's law • Bonapolia handles client-side paperwork, including MSA, NDA, and invoicing