Golang Engineer – Senior

SOFTSWISS continues to expand the team and is looking for a Senior Golang Engineer. We need a true, experienced and accomplished professional who shares our culture and values.

Purpose of the role

You’ll design and build scalable backend solutions in Go, helping to shape the architecture of a high-load, business-critical system.

You’ll collaborate closely with the team, contribute to strategic technical decisions, and ensure code quality through thoughtful reviews and clean, testable implementation.

Your deep understanding of system internals, distributed architecture, and data integrity will drive reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborating within a team using the Scrum methodology and participating in planning your own workflow
• Engaging in architectural, infrastructure, and other strategic decision-making processes
• Conducting code reviews for other team members and documenting your own code

Required Experience

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• At least 4 years of recent programming experience with Go as the primary language
• Strong understanding of Go internals: data structures, multithreading, memory management, garbage collection, etc.
• Experience with relational databases, including the ability to write and optimize complex SQL queries
• Solid knowledge of Linux and an understanding of containerization (we use Docker)
• Ability to write testable code and corresponding unit tests
• Experience working with Kafka and Kubernetes
• English – Intermediate
• Russian – Upper-Intermediate

Nice to have

• Experience in developing applications in finance or other fields where data integrity is a key requirement