Go Application Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland, +3 more countries.

📋 Description

• Interpret vague business requirements into precise, structured technical architectures.

• Create scalable, fault-tolerant, and maintainable systems based on distributed and microservice architectures.

• Make informed architectural decisions and provide rationale for trade-offs.

• Develop resilient versioned REST/gRPC API contracts ensuring backward compatibility.

• Design strategies for relational and non-relational data storage, including schema development and query optimization.

• Establish event-driven and asynchronous processes utilizing Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS.

• Foresee scalability and reliability challenges, considering load, failure scenarios, and observability.

• Generate architecture documentation such as ADRs, technical specifications, and diagrams.

• Offer guidance and mentorship to development teams on best practices, code quality, and Go idioms without direct management responsibilities.

• Articulate technical decisions and trade-offs to Product Owners, Solution Architects, and non-technical stakeholders.

• Assess technologies, tools, and frameworks to shape the team's technical roadmap.

• Maintain a balance between hands-on coding and architectural oversight.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of comprehensive software development experience.

• 4 to 5+ years of practical, production-level experience with Go.

• Profound knowledge of goroutines, channels, context, memory model, and concurrency patterns.

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, software development, or a related discipline.

• Significant experience in working with AI and its implementation/configuration within a team setting.

• Background in fintech, banking, or other regulated/high-compliance industries.

• Experience in designing distributed, microservice-based, or high-load systems.

• Strong proficiency in REST and/or gRPC API design, versioning, and backward compatibility.

• Familiarity with PostgreSQL/MySQL schema design, query optimization, and transactions.

• Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS and event-driven architecture.

• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and contemporary DevOps practices.

• Understanding of how to design scalable, fault-tolerant, secure, and observable systems.

• Experience conducting architecture reviews and producing ADRs and technical specifications.

• Excellent communication abilities for conveying architectural choices to both technical and business audiences.

• Availability to work from 9:00 to 18:00 CEST.

• Willingness to undertake a live Go coding task during the client interview.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

• Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.

• Collaborative and innovative work environment.

• Flexible working hours and remote work options.