Golang Developer

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 environment 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