Golang Developer – AWS & Microservices

Job Title: Golang Developer – AWS & Microservices

Location: McLean / Richmond, VA - 5 days onsite

Experience: 10 Years

Employment Type: Contract 

Job Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled Golang Developer with strong expertise in AWS cloud services and Microservices architecture. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building scalable, high-performance distributed systems and deploying cloud-native applications in AWS environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems using Golang.
• Build and implement microservices-based architectures.
• Develop and consume RESTful APIs / gRPC services.
• Deploy, monitor, and manage applications in AWS cloud environments.
• Work with Docker & Kubernetes (EKS preferred) for containerized deployments.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and automation for cloud-native applications.
• Integrate with databases, message queues, and third-party services.
• Ensure system reliability, scalability, security, and performance.
• Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to technical decisions.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analysis.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Golang (Go).
• Hands-on experience designing Microservices architecture.
• Strong experience with AWS services such as:
• EC2
• Lambda
• API Gateway
• S3
• RDS / DynamoDB
• SNS/SQS
• CloudWatch
• Experience with Docker & Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, gRPC, and API security (OAuth2, JWT).
• Experience with relational or NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB).
• Familiarity with Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or other CI/CD tools.
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture and messaging systems (Kafka preferred).

Preferred Qualifications

·         Experience with serverless architecture.

·         Knowledge of infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation).

·         Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

·         Understanding of distributed systems concepts (caching, load balancing, resiliency patterns).

·         Exposure to monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack.