Go Developer / Backend Engineer (Golang)

About the job: We are looking for a Go Developer to build and operate high-performance backend systems that power real-time user experiences. This role focuses on scalable APIs, event-driven services, and resilient distributed systems with strong attention to latency, throughput, reliability, and production observability. Key Responsibilities • Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services and microservices using Go (Golang). • Build scalable, low-latency APIs and backend components for real-time applications. • Develop and support event-driven architectures and real-time data pipelines using messaging or streaming systems. • Profile and optimize critical code paths for latency, throughput, CPU, and memory efficiency. • Write clean, testable, and maintainable code with strong engineering standards, including unit and integration tests. • Design systems that remain reliable under burst traffic, production spikes, and changing workload conditions. • Debug production issues in high-pressure environments and improve observability using logs, metrics, and tracing. • Collaborate with frontend, DevOps, QA, and product teams to deliver robust user-facing features. • Contribute to architecture, system design, performance engineering, and code reviews across the platform. Core Requirements • 1+ year of hands-on experience building backend services in Go (Golang). • Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and Go runtime fundamentals. • Experience designing and building REST APIs plus WebSocket- and/or gRPC-based backend services. • Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and/or MySQL. • Familiarity with Redis or similar caching / in-memory data systems. • Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including reliability, scalability, and failure handling. • Experience with Git and modern version control workflows. • Ability to debug, benchmark, and improve backend performance in production-like environments. Preferred Skills • Experience with low-latency or high-throughput systems such as trading platforms, gaming backends, telemetry, or streaming products. • Exposure to Kafka, NATS, Redis Streams, or similar event/streaming systems. • Understanding of networking fundamentals such as TCP/IP, HTTP, WebSockets, and latency optimization. • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native deployment environments. • Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure. • Familiarity with observability stacks and tools for metrics, structured logging, tracing, and alerting. • Exposure to profiling and benchmarking tools such as pprof, Go benchmarks, or tracing tools is a plus. Compensation & Benefits • Competitive salary aligned with experience, technical capability, and impact. • Opportunity to work on high-performance, real-time systems at scale. • High ownership, fast decision-making, and direct product impact in a lean engineering environment. Work Location & Eligibility • Chennai, Tamil Nadu: Candidates must be able to reliably commute to the office or be willing to relocate before joining. • This role is in-person and requires close collaboration with engineering and product teams on-site. Equal Opportunity GoCharting is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. Applicants from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply Who can apply: Only those candidates can apply who: • have minimum 1 years of experience • are Computer Science Engineering students Salary: Competitive salary Experience: 1 year(s) Deadline: 2035-01-01 00:00:00