{"id":139273,"date":"2026-02-14T12:23:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whitehattoolbox.com\/jobs\/were-hiring-golang-backend-developer-5\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T12:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:23:54","slug":"were-hiring-golang-backend-developer-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitehattoolbox.com\/jobs\/were-hiring-golang-backend-developer-5\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Hiring Golang Backend Developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This role is for one of the Weekday&#8217;s clients<span class=\"br\"><\/span>Salary range: Rs 2500000 &#8211; Rs 3500000 (ie INR 25-35 LPA)<span class=\"br\"><\/span>Min Experience: 5 years<span class=\"br\"><\/span>Location: Remote (India)<span class=\"br\"><\/span>JobType: full-time<span class=\"br\"><\/span>Experience: 5\u20138 years<br \/>\n       Role Split: ~70% Golang \/ ~30% ReactJS<br \/>\n       Onboarding Expectation: Able to contribute to production within the first week<span class=\"br\"><\/span><b>Role Overview<\/b><span class=\"br\"><\/span>We are looking for an experienced Golang Backend Developer who has built and operated production-grade, scalable systems. The role is backend-heavy with meaningful frontend exposure and requires strong problem-solving skills, hands-on cloud experience, and the ability to quickly translate business requirements into reliable, maintainable code.<span class=\"br\"><\/span><b>Requirements<\/b><span class=\"br\"><\/span>1) Mandatory Requirements<span class=\"br\"><\/span>Candidates should be shortlisted only if all criteria below are met: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professional Experience: 5\u20138 years of software development experience with recent, hands-on Golang usage in production environments<\/li>\n<li>Production Ownership: Proven experience building, deploying, and supporting live systems (not limited to proof-of-concepts)<\/li>\n<li>Scalable Systems: Hands-on exposure to event-driven microservices handling high throughput and concurrency<\/li>\n<li>Problem Solving &#038; Reasoning: Ability to quickly convert business logic into correct implementations (e.g., simple financial or rule-based calculations)<\/li>\n<li>Rapid Ramp-Up: Demonstrated ability to set up environments, pick up tasks, and release code to production within one week of onboarding<\/li>\n<li>Communication Skills: Clearly explains architecture decisions, trade-offs, and personal contributions<\/li>\n<li>Code Quality: Writes clean, idiomatic Go with good structure, test coverage, error handling, and performance awareness<\/li>\n<li>Event-Driven Architecture: Experience with Kafka and\/or AWS SQS\/SNS, including idempotency, retries, and dead-letter queues<\/li>\n<li>gRPC: Protobuf-based API design, contract versioning, backward compatibility, and interceptor usage (authentication, logging)<\/li>\n<li>Data Stores:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Strong experience with DynamoDB, including data modeling, partition keys, GSIs\/LSIs, capacity planning, pagination, and consistency models<\/li>\n<li>Basic familiarity with PostgreSQL (ALTER statements, indexing, and replication concepts)<\/li>\n<li>Security: Working knowledge of OAuth 2.0 flows and JWT-based authentication<\/li>\n<li>Cloud: Practical experience with AWS, particularly Lambda and serverless architectures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> 2) Frontend Requirement (Approx. 30%) <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minimum 1 year of hands-on ReactJS experience<\/li>\n<li>Comfortable working with existing component libraries<\/li>\n<li>Experience integrating APIs and managing basic application state<\/li>\n<li>Ability to make frontend changes without heavy guidance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> 3) Nice-to-Have Skills <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Experience using AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Copilot, Codex, Cursor) responsibly to accelerate development while maintaining code quality<\/li>\n<li>Familiarity with Terraform, CI\/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows<\/li>\n<li>Understanding of environment promotion and release processes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> 4) Key Concepts to Be Evaluated<span class=\"br\"><\/span>(Depth of understanding is prioritized over theoretical knowledge) <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Golang: Goroutines, channels, contexts, error handling, maps, testing practices<\/li>\n<li>System Architecture: Microservices, event-driven systems, service-to-service communication<\/li>\n<li>Cloud &#038; Infrastructure: AWS fundamentals, Lambda patterns, serverless trade-offs<\/li>\n<li>Messaging Systems: Kafka, SQS, SNS<\/li>\n<li>Databases:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>DynamoDB and general NoSQL design principles (Cassandra basics a plus)<\/li>\n<li>PostgreSQL fundamentals (ALTER operations, indexing, replication concepts)<\/li>\n<li>Interfaces: gRPC and Protobuf<\/li>\n<li>Security: OAuth 2.0 and JWT authentication<\/li>\n<li>Code Quality: Idiomatic, readable, maintainable Golang code<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> 5) Expected Interview Coverage (for Pre-Screening) <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Project Deep Dive: Architecture overview, team setup, and individual contributions<\/li>\n<li>Concurrency Discussion: Go concurrency patterns such as worker pools, fan-out\/fan-in, and channel usage<\/li>\n<li>AWS Lambda Experience: Use cases, retry and backoff strategies, and issue resolution<\/li>\n<li>Event-Driven Design: Queue vs topic decisions, ordering guarantees, idempotency, and DLQs<\/li>\n<li>Data Design:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>DynamoDB partition and GSI strategy, pagination, and hot partition avoidance<\/li>\n<li>PostgreSQL indexing strategy, ALTER examples, and replication basics<\/li>\n<li>High-level discussion of event-driven patterns with Postgres (outbox pattern, NOTIFY\/LISTEN, CDC)<\/li>\n<li>Performance &#038; 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