Golang Developer
Posted 2 weeks ago by Insight International (UK) Ltd
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of a Golang Developer involves designing, developing, and maintaining backend services and microservices using Golang in a hybrid work environment. The position requires collaboration with various teams to deliver high-quality software solutions while ensuring application performance and security. The developer will also participate in code reviews and contribute to architectural decisions. This contract role is based in London, UK, and emphasizes strong technical skills in Golang and cloud technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and microservices using Golang.
- Build scalable, high-performance applications for enterprise environments.
- Develop and consume RESTful APIs and integrate with third-party systems.
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices.
- Optimize application performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Collaborate with product owners, architects, QA teams, and DevOps engineers.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical design discussions.
- Troubleshoot production issues and provide timely resolutions.
- Implement security, monitoring, and logging best practices.
- Support CI/CD processes and automated deployments.
- Contribute to architecture decisions and technical improvements across platforms.
- Work within Agile teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.
Key Skills:
- 5–8 years of overall software development experience with at least 3+ years of hands-on Golang development.
- Strong understanding of Go routines, channels, concurrency, and memory management.
- Experience building REST APIs and microservices.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
- Experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle.
- Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Redis, or Cassandra.
- Knowledge of Docker and containerized applications.
- Experience with Git version control.
- Strong understanding of Linux/Unix environments.
- Experience developing scalable and distributed applications.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
- Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack.
- Experience with event-driven architectures.
- Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other messaging platforms.
- Exposure to distributed systems and high-volume transactional environments.
- Knowledge of gRPC and Protocol Buffers.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
- Understanding of cloud-native application development.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Role: Golang Developer
Location: London, UK (Hybrid)
Employment type: Contract
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and microservices using Golang.
- Build scalable, high-performance applications for enterprise environments.
- Develop and consume RESTful APIs and integrate with third-party systems.
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices.
- Optimize application performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Collaborate with product owners, architects, QA teams, and DevOps engineers.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical design discussions.
- Troubleshoot production issues and provide timely resolutions.
- Implement security, monitoring, and logging best practices.
- Support CI/CD processes and automated deployments.
- Contribute to architecture decisions and technical improvements across platforms.
- Work within Agile teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.
Required Skills
Technical Skills
- 5–8 years of overall software development experience with at least 3+ years of hands-on Golang development.
- Strong understanding of Go routines, channels, concurrency, and memory management.
- Experience building REST APIs and microservices.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
- Experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle.
- Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Redis, or Cassandra.
- Knowledge of Docker and containerized applications.
- Experience with Git version control.
- Strong understanding of Linux/Unix environments.
- Experience developing scalable and distributed applications.
Cloud & DevOps
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
- Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with event-driven architectures.
- Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other messaging platforms.
- Exposure to distributed systems and high-volume transactional environments.
- Knowledge of gRPC and Protocol Buffers.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
- Understanding of cloud-native application development.