Job Title: Senior Backend Developer – Go / Platform
Key Skills: Go (Golang), GCP, Microservices, REST APIs, gRPC, Kubernetes, Docker, Distributed Systems, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, NoSQL, Relational Databases, GitOps, DevOps
Experience: +7 years of experience.
Location: Bolivia
Mode: Remote
We at Coforge are hiring Senior Backend Developer – Go / Platform (#19695) with the following skill set
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy high-performance, resilient, and scalable cloud-based systems for a cybersecurity platform.
- Lead software capabilities from concept to production, ensuring high quality and efficient delivery throughout the SDLC.
- Utilize Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to build and operate highly available backend systems.
- Identify and resolve system-level and component-level performance challenges.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, Operations, and Platform Engineering.
- Integrate monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to improve reliability, performance, and system availability.
- Maintain high engineering standards through automated testing, CI/CD workflows, and best SDLC practices.
- Propose and design technical solutions aligned with product requirements and user stories.
- Participate in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, and code reviews.
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers while promoting engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in backend engineering or distributed systems development.
- 4+ years of expert-level hands-on experience with Go (Golang).
- Strong expertise in microservices architecture, REST API development, and gRPC.
- Experience building and maintaining scalable cloud-native applications in GCP (preferred).
- Strong hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized environments.
- Experience with asynchronous messaging technologies such as Google Pub/Sub or Kafka.
- Strong knowledge of both relational and NoSQL databases.
- Experience writing unit tests, integration tests, and BDD-style tests.
- Strong system design capabilities; familiarity with UML and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is desirable.
- Experience with GitOps, DevOps practices, CI/CD automation, and engineering tooling.
- Strong understanding of modern SDLC practices and experience working in agile teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated experience scaling distributed and microservice-based systems in production.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple stakeholders and technical teams.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with Ruby.
- Experience building platform-level or miss