Golang Developer Senior

Looking for W-2 CANDIDATES ONLY who are authorized to work in the United States without the need for sponsorship. H-1B Transfers AND CORP-TO-CORP Candidates WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED for this position

Job Title: Senior Golang Developer

Location: VA Hybrid

Duration: 4+ Months Position with possible extension

Responsibilities:

• Dive into large-scale data ingestion pipelines (S3, Lambdas, etc.) and make them faster and smarter.
• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Go (Golang) for the Business Core platform.
• Work with PostgreSQL and AWS Neptune to model and query complex relationships.
• Build and optimize APIs (GraphQL and REST) that power critical customer and entity data flows.
• Collaborate with engineers, product folks, and anyone else who can tolerate our Slack threads.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines (OnePipeline) and obsess over automation.
• Ensure code is secure, performant, and doesn't explode under load.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with at least 3 years in Go.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL and GraphQL.
• Familiarity with AWS services (Fargate, Lambda, S3, IAM, RDS, etc.) and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with Graph databases (bonus points if you have wrestled with Neptune/Gremlin).
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and GraphQL.
• Comfort with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Fargate/ECS/EKS).
• Knowledge of distributed systems and data modelling principles.
• A mindset for clean, maintainable, and testable code.
• Ability to work in a collaborative environment with multiple teams.