As Emumba’s Senior Golang Engineer, you’ll help architect and scale the backbone of modern, high-performance systems. This role goes beyond writing APIs; it’s about building production-grade services that are resilient, observable, and designed for scale from day one.
You’ll collaborate across product and infrastructure teams, shape technical direction, and elevate engineering standards through thoughtful design and mentorship. If you enjoy working close to the runtime, thinking deeply about concurrency, and solving distributed systems challenges, this is where you’ll thrive.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years working extensively with Go
- Deep understanding of Go internals: goroutines, channels, scheduler behavior, sync primitives, and context package
- Strong command of Go concurrency patterns and performance optimization
- Strong computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, complexity analysis, system design)
- Working knowledge of operating system concepts as applied to runtime behavior
- Strong grasp of distributed systems principles (CAP theorem, consistency models, consensus, fault tolerance)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
Backend & Service Architecture
- Design and build scalable, production-grade Go services and APIs
- Own features end-to-end: from architecture and development to deployment and monitoring
- Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to define and refine technical direction
Performance & Reliability Engineering
- Optimize system performance, scalability, and fault tolerance
- Improve observability through structured logging, tracing, and metrics
- Debug complex concurrency and distributed system issues
Engineering Excellence & Mentorship
- Conduct thorough code reviews and uphold high engineering standards
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong technical culture
- Continuously improve deployment pipelines and operational best practices
Nice-to-Have
- Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers
- Familiarity with Go profiling and tracing tools (pprof, go trace, race detector)
- Experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production
- Work on complex backend challenges that demand technical depth
- Influence system architecture and long-term engineering direction
- Collaborate with high-caliber engineers in a culture that values clarity and ownership
- Opportunity to mentor and lead through technical excellence
