Senior Software Engineer, Golang

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September 8

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Recruitment • B2B • HR Tech

Talent Safari is dedicated to connecting Africa's best talent with innovative startups, facilitating quality-first hiring with a focus on customer success. The company expertly finds high-quality, vetted candidates for startups within two weeks, allowing clients to focus on their growth. With a team that has startup expertise and a vast community of professionals in various fields, Talent Safari provides an efficient recruitment process while ensuring satisfaction through a 90-day probation guarantee.

1 - 10 employees

🎯 Recruiter

🤝 B2B

👥 HR Tech

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs in Go for pipelines and orchestration features • Collaborate on system architecture, performance tuning, and scaling strategies for container-based workloads • Drive end-to-end development: prototyping, API design, testing, deployment, and monitoring • Own CI/CD pipelines and observability (Prometheus, Grafana) • Mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and contribute to best practices around testing, documentation, and security • Partner with product and UX teams to translate requirements into maintainable Go modules and SDKs

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 2+ years of heavy use of Go in production • Deep understanding of Go internals, concurrency patterns (goroutines, channels), and idiomatic code structure • Proven track record building RESTful APIs and GRPC services at scale • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) • Strong debugging and performance-profiling skills; familiarity with tracing tools (Jaeger, OpenTelemetry) • Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset in a remote, cross-functional team • Preferred: Exposure to event-driven architectures (Kafka or RabbitMQ) • Preferred: Knowledge of security best practices for cloud-native applications • Application requires submission of resume and contact information via the provided form