Senior Backend Engineer – Golang Experience Required: 5+ Years

Location:
Bengaluru, Hyderabad

Job Description
We are looking for a skilled Senior Backend Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Golang to design, develop, and scale distributed, high-throughput backend systems. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in Go microservices, event-driven architecture, Kafka, payment integrations, database optimization, and production-grade backend engineering.

Key Responsibilities
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Go microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Build event-driven systems using Kafka, including Outbox patterns, retries, and idempotency.
• Design and integrate webhooks with reliable delivery mechanisms.
• Integrate third-party payment gateways, handling transaction flows, reconciliation, refunds, and failure scenarios.
• Develop concurrent applications using Goroutines, Channels, Context, and graceful shutdown mechanisms.
• Design efficient data models and optimize SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Implement caching strategies using Redis.
• Work with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms.
• Write unit and integration tests, conduct code reviews, and maintain code quality.
• Monitor production systems, troubleshoot issues, and drive root-cause analysis.




• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver reliable backend solutions. Required Skills
• 5+ years of backend development experience.
• Solid hands-on expertise in Golang.
• Advanced Go concepts: Goroutines, Channels, Sync primitives, Worker Pools, Context, and Graceful Shutdown.
• Strong experience in Microservices and Distributed Systems.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar message brokers.
• Experience with REST APIs, Webhooks, and Payment Gateway Integrations.
• Strong SQL knowledge (PostgreSQL/MySQL).
• Experience with Redis and caching strategies.
• Working knowledge of Docker, CI/CD, and AWS/GCP.
• Understanding of JWT, OAuth, and Role-Based Access Control.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Kibana, New Relic, and CloudWatch.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and ownership skills. Good to Have
• Go Monorepos and Bazel.
• API Gateways such as KrakenD.
• Fintech, Payments, or E-commerce domain experience.
• OpenSearch or Elasticsearch.
• Clean Architecture and Domain-Driven Design.
• Experience with high-volume, high-concurrency systems.
• Mentoring or team leadership experience.

📌 Senior Golang Backend Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 ShimentoX Technologies
📍 Bengaluru