About Object Edge:
Established in 1994, Object Edge is an award-winning digital consultancy working with leading global brands. In a challenging digital landscape, we help businesses differentiate and compete by creating effortless digital experiences. We design, implement, and support commerce, content, subscription, and CPQ with a data-driven, highly collaborative, and best-in-class team.We serve enterprise businesses who need to build digital experiences and want a nimble, personalized, and specialized partner..
About the Position:
We are looking for a seasoned Senior Golang Engineer to lead the design and development of our high-scale backend services. In this role, you will be responsible for building robust, concurrent, and low-latency systems that power our core platform. You will not only write idiomatic "Go" code but also architect distributed systems, mentor junior developers, and drive engineering excellence across the stack.
Location:
Remote- Brazil
What You’ll Do:
- System Architecture: Design and implement scalable, microservices-based architectures using Golang to support high-traffic applications.
- High-Performance Coding: Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, leveraging Go’s unique concurrency primitives (Goroutines and Channels).
- API Development: Build and maintain high-performance RESTful and gRPC APIs.
- Performance Optimization: Profile and optimize services to reduce latency and improve resource utilization (CPU/Memory).
- Infrastructure & DevOps: Work closely with DevOps to containerize applications using Docker and orchestrate them via Kubernetes.
- Quality Assurance: Lead the charge in writing comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure 99.9% system reliability.
- Mentorship: Conduct rigorous code reviews and provide technical guidance to mid-level and junior engineers.
Modern Tooling:
Integrate AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot) into the workflow to accelerate delivery without sacrificing quality.
Experience You’ll Bring:
- Core Go Mastery: 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5+ years dedicated to Golang in a production environment.
- Concurrency: Deep understanding of Go's concurrency model, including sync packages, context handling, and race condition mitigation.
- Microservices: Proven experience with microservices patterns (Service Discovery, Circuit Breakers, API Gateways).
- Database Expertise: Proficiency with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL solutions (Redis, MongoDB, or Cassandra).
- Messaging: Experience with message brokers or event-streaming platforms like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS.
- Cloud Native: Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and a strong grasp of Kubernetes/Docker.
- Testing: Mastery of table-driven testing in Go and tools like testify or mock.
Soft Skills
- Problem Solver: Ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems issues in production.
- Collaborator: Strong communication skills to articulate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
- Leadership: A proactive "owner" mindset with a passion for mentoring others.
Preferred Qualifications (Bonus)
- Experience with Rust or other systems-level languages.
- Contributions to open-source Go projects.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi).
- Experience in [Insert Industry: e.g., Fintech, Healthcare, E-commerce].
Our Tech Stack
- Language: Go 1.2x+
- Frameworks: Echo, Gin, or GRPC-Go
- Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka
Platform:
Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions
Compensation:
Salary is commensurate with experience, based on department and role.
Object Edge provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. We believe in providing employees with a work environment free of unlawful discrimination and harassment. In addition to national law requirements, Object Edge complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
