Backend & DevOps Engineer

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Role Summary

We are seeking a Backend & DevOps Engineer to design, develop, deploy and maintain production-ready REST API services in Go and the associated Google Cloud Platform infrastructure. The role combines hands-on backend engineering with CI/CD automation, containerisation, security integration and cloud service operations. The engineer will work within defined architectural standards and will own both application code and infrastructure automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop production-grade REST APIs in Go using gorilla/mux.
• Implement and maintain a three-layer application architecture: Handler to Service to Repository.
• Write, review and optimise raw parameterised SQL for PostgreSQL using database/sql, without ORM dependencies.
• Create and maintain database migrations and version history using Flyway.
• Develop and optimise GCP Cloud Build pipelines for continuous integration and environment deployments.
• Package applications using multi-stage Docker builds with distroless, non-root runtime images.
• Deploy and operate containerised services on GCP Cloud Run and integrate with Cloud SQL.
• Implement inbound Azure AD JWT/JWKS validation and outbound OAuth2 client-credentials flows.
• Manage application secrets and configuration securely through GCP Secret Manager.
• Integrate SonarQube code-quality gates and FOSSA open-source licence compliance checks into CI/CD.
• Develop comprehensive table-driven unit tests using httptest, mockery and go-sqlmock.
• Participate in code reviews, troubleshoot production and pipeline issues, and drive corrective actions through closure.
• Prepare weekly technical status updates covering API delivery, migrations, pipeline health, test coverage, risks and blockers. <

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