BACKEND ENGINEERING

Senior Backend Developer (Golang)

Develop backend services in Go for distributed systems and secure networking. The role covers concurrency, event streaming, caching and deployments on AWS and Kubernetes.

Dubai, UAEFull-Time8+ Years experience

What you’ll work on

  • Design and implement backend services in Golang, focusing on concurrency, performance, and reliability.
  • Develop components that integrate WireGuard protocol for secure communication and advanced networking.
  • Build APIs and services for real-time workloads and secure data flows.
  • Use Redis for caching, session management, distributed coordination, and Pub/Sub messaging.
  • Build streaming and data processing pipelines with Kafka to support real-time events and analytics.
  • Deploy and operate services on AWS (EKS, EC2, ElastiCache, MSK) and on-prem Kubernetes clusters.
  • Contribute to infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Implement monitoring and observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Write clean, maintainable, and testable code with automated unit and integration tests.
  • Conduct performance benchmarking, profiling, and optimization for low-latency, high-throughput systems.
  • Participate in load testing, failover simulations, and incident response improvements.
  • Work closely with tech leads and DevOps engineers from design through release.
  • Review code, join design discussions and help improve the team’s engineering practices.

What you’ll bring

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of backend engineering experience, with at least 5+ years in Golang.
  • Strong proficiency in Golang (concurrency, networking, memory management, performance tuning).
  • Hands-on experience with WireGuard protocol or similar secure networking technologies.
  • Proficiency with Redis (cache strategies, Pub/Sub, clustering).
  • Solid understanding of Kafka (consumer groups, partitions, streaming pipelines).
  • Experience with Kubernetes (EKS, on-prem clusters), containers, and microservices.
  • Strong working knowledge of AWS services (VPC, EC2, IAM, CloudWatch, MSK, ElastiCache).
  • Experience in building high-concurrency systems with focus on throughput and low latency.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible).
  • Plus: Knowledge of Linux networking (iptables, nftables, routing).
  • Plus: Experience with additional messaging systems (RabbitMQ, NATS).
  • Plus: Familiarity with distributed tracing and debugging in large systems.

What’s on offer

  • Help shape the product architecture and secure networking work.
  • Modern, high-spec equipment allowance.
  • Paid annual leave, company health coverage, and quarterly bonuses.
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