The Go Engineer is responsible for leading the design, development, and operation of scalable, resilient microservices that power customer-facing and internal technology products. This role drives backend architecture and distributed systems strategy while also contributing to modern, responsive front-end applications.

You will serve as a technical anchor for our service-oriented architecture, leading the design of independently deployable services in Go and driving high availability, performance, and observability standards across the organization. The idóneo candidate brings deep expertise in microservice architecture, API design, inter-service communication, and cloud-native.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the design and development of scalable, resilient microservices using Go, setting patterns and standards for the broader engineering team

Define and maintain clear API contracts (REST and/or event-driven interfaces) between services

Architect distributed systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance

Implement inter-service communication patterns (synchronous and asynchronous)

Design and manage service-level database schemas and data ownership models

Build and maintain responsive front-end components that consume backend services

Implement observability practices including logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting

Lead code reviews, mentor engineers across experience levels, and champion engineering best practices organization-wide

Partner cross-functionally with DevOps, QA, product, and design teams; serve as a technical liaison and contribute to roadmap and architecture decisions

Document service architecture, APIs, and operational procedures

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field (preferred)





5-7+ years of professional software engineering experience

3+ years of experience building and operating production backend services in Go

Strong experience designing and implementing microservice architectures

Experience building RESTful APIs and/or event-driven services

Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts (service discovery, load balancing, circuit breaking, retries, idempotency)

Experience with synchronous and asynchronous communication patterns (HTTP/gRPC, messaging systems)

Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases in a service-oriented architecture

Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including managed services, IAM, and infrastructure-as-code

Strong debugging, performance tuning, and production support experience

Strong problem-solving skills and architectural judgment

Excellent communication skills and collaborative mindset

Strong sense of ownership and accountability

Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and elevate team technical capability.

ADVANCED ENGLISH IS A MUST , you won't be considered if your are not fluent thank you!

Nice-to-Haves

Experience with event streaming platforms (Kafka, Pub/Sub, NATS)

Experience with API gateways and service meshes

Experience implementing authentication and authorization (OAuth2, JWT, SSO)

Familiarity with domain-driven design (DDD) principles

Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments

Benefits

Contrato a largo plazo.

100% Remoto.

Vacaciones y PTOs

Posibilidad de recibir 2 bonos al año.

2 revisiones salariales al año.

Clases de inglés.

Equipamiento Apple.

Plataforma de cursos en linea

Budget para compra de libros.

Budget para compra de materiales de trabajo

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