I am looking for: Senior Go Backend Engineer (5+ years)

HSR Layout, Bangalore | On-site
KV Consulting

We're growing our Bangalore team and looking for a strong Senior Go Backend Engineer to work on a German / US project to build production-ready platform services from the ground up. You'll work on realtime, distributed, and streaming-adjacent systems — think WebSocket fan-out, high-concurrency connections, and event-driven architectures at scale. If you enjoy owning architecture decisions and building greenfield services that need to be fast, reliable, and clean, this one's for you.

Experience: 5+ years as a Backend Engineer, incl. 2+ years at senior level

What You'll Do

* Build production-ready, greenfield platform services in Go
* Design and operate realtime backends: WebSockets, fan-out, backpressure, many concurrent connections
* Work across distributed systems using Kafka, Redis, and Pub/Sub
* Design and evolve APIs (REST, RPC or GraphQL) on top of PostgreSQL
* Write unit, integration, and contract tests in Go
* Own architecture decisions and document them via ADRs
* Optimize for latency, throughput, and event persistence
* Critically review AI-generated code and use agentic tooling responsibly

Must Have

* 5+ years backend experience, incl.



2+ years at senior level
* Solid hands-on Go/Golang expertise
* Experience shipping greenfield projects to production
* Distributed systems: Kafka, Redis, Pub/Sub
* Solid PostgreSQL
* API design with REST, RPC or GraphQL
* Realtime experience: WebSockets, fan-out, backpressure, high concurrency
* Testing discipline in Go: unit, integration, contract tests
* Ownership of architecture and code quality (ADRs)
* Hands-on with AI agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor) and the ability to critically vet AI output — blind copy-paste is a no-go

Good to Have

* Realtime/chat systems: event persistence, latency optimization
* Video/streaming integration: LL-HLS, SSAI/SCTE-35, CDN (no GPU, codecs, or transcoding — those are integrated, not built)
* OAuth2/OIDC, ClickHouse or other analytics databases
* Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud (AWS/GCP), CI/CD and observability (GitHub Actions, Prometheus/Grafana)

How to apply

Fill out the application form here https://lnkd.in/geuHE2iq
You can also drop your CV in [email protected] — but filling the form helps us move faster.

Work Location: In person

📌 Senior Go Backend Engineer (5+ years) (India)
🏢 KV Consulting
📍 India