Must-have skills

- Golang development experience in production environments
- Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs
- Understanding of authentication and authorisation patterns
- Experience integrating with third-party services and APIs
- Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals
- Experience developing and operating backend services at scale

Engineering Practices

- Test automation (unit, integration and end-to-end testing)
- Git and modern source control workflows
- CI/CD pipeline experience, including GitHub Actions
- Code review participation and feedback
- Debugging and production issue investigation
- Agile delivery experience

Cloud & Operations

- Experience deploying and operating cloud-hosted applications (AWS preferred)
- Application monitoring and observability
- Logging, alerting and operational support
- Infrastructure and setting management fundamentals

Professional Skills

- Ability to break down requirements into deliverable work
- Effective collaboration with Product, Design and Engineering peers
- Clear written and verbal communication
- Ownership mindset and accountability for outcomes
- Ability to work independently with moderate direction

Nice-to-have skills

- Platform & Architecture
- Database design and querying (SQL)




- Event-driven architectures
- Messaging technologies (Kafka, SNS/SQS, EventBridge, etc.)
- Domain-driven design
- API gateway and service mesh patterns
- Experience with high-traffic consumer-facing platforms
- E-commerce experience

DevOps & Reliability

- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK)
- Kubernetes and container orchestration
- Site Reliability Engineering practices
- DORA metrics understanding
- Resilience and failure-testing practices

Performance Engineering

- Performance and load testing experience
- Experience with tools such as Artillery, JMeter or k6
- Capacity planning and performance analysis

Tooling & Delivery

- Vercel platform experience
- Analytics and experimentation platforms
- A/B testing frameworks
- AI-assisted engineering tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.)

Security

- Secure SDLC practices
- OWASP Top 10 knowledge
- Identity and SSO integrations
- GDPR and privacy considerations

Leadership & Influence

- Mentoring junior engineers
- Leading small technical initiatives
- Running technical design discussions
- Contributing to engineering standards and best practices

📌 Golang Developer (Noida)
🏢 WPP ES
📍 Noida