About the Opportunity
A staffing and IT contract recruitment specialist is hiring for a technology client in the software products / platform sector. This on-site contract role in India targets mid-level backend engineers to deliver high-performance production-grade services built in Go.
Role & Responsibilities
- Design develop and maintain backend services and microservices using Go (Golang) to meet scalability and reliability goals.
- Build and consume gRPC and RESTful APIs; define clear API contracts and ensure backward compatibility.
- Containerize applications and manage deployments using Docker and Kubernetes; optimize pod sizing autoscaling and rollout strategies.
- Implement robust data access patterns with PostgreSQL and Redis focusing on performance indexing and consistency.
- Drive observability logging and alerting for production systems; investigate and resolve incidents with root-cause analysis.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines code reviews and engineering best practices to improve release velocity and code quality.
Skills & Qualifications
Must-Have
- 3 years of commercial experience developing backend services with Golang.
- Proven experience designing and implementing microservices using gRPC and RESTful APIs.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
- Strong SQL and NoSQL experience specifically PostgreSQL and Redis.
- Practical knowledge of CI/CD pipelines automated testing and deployment automation.
- Experience troubleshooting profiling and optimizing high-throughput low-latency systems.
Preferred
- Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.
- Experience running workloads on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS).
- Prior contract or on-site delivery experience in fast-paced engineering teams.
What You ll Get
- Contract role with hands-on impactful engineering work in a production environment.
- Collaborative delivery-focused teams with emphasis on engineering excellence and observability.
- On-site engagement across India opportunity to work closely with product and ops stakeholders.
Location: India (On-site) Role: Backend Engineer (Golang) SDE II Employment type: Contract via SAM Manpower and Career Services LLP.
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