Golang Architect
Role : GoLang Architect - Hands-on Work site: Miami, FL (Remote) Position Type : Contract JOB DESCRIPTION Position Overview You will own the end-to-end design and delivery of high-throughput, resilient integration solutions built in Go. As our Go-lang Integration Architect, you’ll define best practices, drive reusable integration patterns and mentor engineering teams on advanced Go techniques, API design and event-driven architectures.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design and hands-on implementation of integration solutions using Go (microservices, APIs, stream processing)
- Define and govern enterprise integration patterns (REST/JSON, gRPC, message-driven, event sourcing)
- Establish coding standards and best practices
- Prototype and evaluate new tools or middleware (message brokers, API gateways, service meshes) for performance, scalability and security
- Collaborate with product owners, solution architects and DevOps to translate business requirements into technical designs
- Drive API lifecycle management: design specifications (OpenAPI), versioning, documentation, policy enforcement
- Conduct design reviews, performance tuning and fault-injection testing to ensure SLAs
- Mentor and train development teams on Go-specific patterns (concurrency, error handling, dependency management)
- Identify performance bottlenecks and perform root-cause analysis, and recommend preventive measures
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years architecting/implementing integrations in Go
- Deep expertise in Go language fundamentals: goroutines, channels, interfaces, modules
- Proven track record designing RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services at scale
- Experience with message brokers (Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ) and event-driven architectures
- Working understanding of containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and automated testing frameworks
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure) and cloud-native best practices - AWS preferred.
- Strong grasp of security principles: OAuth2/OpenID Connect, mTLS, API gateways, encryption
- Excellent communication skills and experience leading technical discussions with stakeholders
Preferred Skills
- Prior experience with additional integration runtimes or ESBs (MuleSoft, Apache Camel, Spring Integration)
- Knowledge of performance-testing tools (Locust, k6, JMeter) and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
- Background in domain-driven design, CQRS/ES or micro-frontend integration
- Contributions to open-source Go projects or published technical articles
Best Regards, Bismillah Arzoo (AB) Apply To This Job