Senior Golang Developer

We are looking for a Senior Golang Developer

🗣️ Language Proficiency: Intermediate

🌍 Candidate Location: EU, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Moldova

🕐 Working Time Zone: CET

🧭 Planned Work Duration: 6 months

👥 Customer Description:

The customer is a global mobility and urban services platform that enables users to book rides and other services.

🧩 Project Description:

The project focuses on enhancing a high-load fleet management platform for ride-hailing operations across multiple countries.

⚙️ Project Phase:

Ongoing

🤝 Soft Skills:

• Ability to explain, at any level of detail, the architecture of projects.

• Ability to independently drive ambiguous problems to a solution by clarifying requirements.

💡 Hard Skills / Must Have:

• 5+ years of commercial backend engineering experience in production environments.

• Strong Go expertise, including concurrency, synchronization primitives, context propagation, goroutine lifecycle management, and graceful shutdown patterns.

• Experience building and supporting high-load distributed systems.

• Recent product development experience involving complex business logic and evolving requirements.

• Strong SQL and data modelling skills, including schema design, joins, aggregations, composite indexes, data type selection, query analysis, and scaling strategies such as replication, partitioning, and sharding.

• Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL.

• Strong understanding of caching strategies, including Redis.

• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous inter-service communication, including gRPC and message brokers.

• Deep understanding of microservice architecture patterns and efficient client-server interactions.

• Hands-on experience with observability tools and practices, including metrics, logging, distributed tracing, alerting,.

• Understanding of non-functional requirements, SLA, SLO, and SLI.

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms.

• Ability to write maintainable, testable code with solid unit and integration test coverage.

• Proficiency with Git and modern code review workflows

•Russian language proficiency is required

📌 Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and reliable backend services according to business needs.

• Drive technical research, architecture design, and implementation of backend services and new features.

• Actively participate in code reviews and architectural discussions.

• Write clean, effective, and maintainable code in accordance with company standards.

• Take ownership of the backend services lifecycle, including delivery, monitoring, and production maintenance.

• Set up and maintain observability infrastructure, including metrics, logging, dashboards, and tracing.

• Mentor and guide other engineers, advocating for best practices and high standards.

• Participate in Agile practices.

🧪 Technology Stack:Golang, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, SQL

📞 Interview stages:

• English check (15 minutes)

• internal technical interview (1-1,5 hour)

• client interview (1 hour)

• client interview – cultural fit (45 minutes)

💼 What we offer

• Model: B2B contract with Bonapolia - one contract, one monthly invoice

• Rate: negotiated per candidate seniority and client budget

• Payment: monthly invoice, paid on the same schedule the client pays us (usually 30 days)

• Contract written under your country's law

• We handle the client-side paperwork: MSA, NDA, invoicing

🏢 About Bonapolia

Bonapolia is a family-owned IT staff augmentation team based in Lisbon. We build engineering teams for product companies and IT consultancies across Europe and the US.

More at bonapolia.com

📩 Ready to Join? We look forward to receiving your application and welcoming you to our team!