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ENVIRONMENT: Our client is a specialist technology consultancy that provides expert developers to leading banking, financial services and technology organisations across South Africa. They are seeking a Go Developer to join a backend engineering team responsible for designing, developing and maintaining modern, high-performance services, APIs and microservices. The role is suited to a developer who writes clean, efficient and reliable code, understands distributed systems and is comfortable working within cloud-native, containerised environments. DUTIES: • Design, develop and maintain backend services and microservices using Go (Golang). • Build and integrate RESTful and gRPC APIs with internal and third-party systems. • Work with relational and NoSQL databases, designing data models and writing efficient queries. • Build services that are reliable under load, using Go's concurrency features (goroutines and channels) effectively. • Containerise and deploy services using Docker and Kubernetes on a cloud platform. • Write clean, tested and well-documented code, and take part in code reviews. • Contribute to CI\/CD pipelines, monitoring and production support. • Collaborate with product owners, architects, testers and other developers in an Agile team. • At Senior level, guide and mentor intermediate developers and contribute to technical design and architecture decisions. REQUIREMENTS: • Intermediate: around 3 to 5 years' commercial software development experience, with solid hands-on Go. Senior: 5+ years, with strong production Go experience. • Strong experience building backend services, REST APIs and microservices in Go. • Good understanding of concurrency, distributed systems and performance optimisation. • Experience with gRPC, message queues or event streaming (such as Kafka) advantageous. • Experience with relational databases (such as PostgreSQL or MySQL) and ideally a NoSQL database (such as MongoDB or Redis). • Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes and a cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP). • Experience with Git, CI\/CD pipelines, automated testing and Agile ways of working. • Banking, payments or financial services experience advantageous. • A relevant degree or diploma in Computer Science, IT or a related field advantageous. ATTRIBUTES: • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with good attention to detail. • Clear communicator who works well in a team and with business stakeholders. • Takes ownership of work and delivers reliably to deadlines. • Curious and keen to keep learning, especially around cloud-native and distributed systems.
