Remote_ W2 Contract_Golang Technical Lead

Role: Golang Technical Lead

Location: Remote

Duration: Long term contract

Position Type: W2 Contract only

Job Description:          

Mandatory Skills

• Experience in Retail or E-commerce domain.
• Strong hands-on experience with Golang for scalable microservices.
• Experience with REST and gRPC APIs.
• Strong understanding of goroutines, channels, and concurrency patterns.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Performance tuning and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog.
• Cloud-native development and containerization experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Architecture
• Design and architect scalable Golang-based microservices.
• Define coding standards and best practices for Go development.
• Evaluate and select Go frameworks, libraries, and tools.
• Conduct design and code reviews.
• Champion security, quality, and DevOps/SRE practices.
• Hands-On Development & Execution
• Develop backend services and APIs using Golang.
• Build event-driven and asynchronous systems.
• Deploy containerized applications on cloud platforms.
• Collaborate with product and architecture teams.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship
• Mentor engineers on Go best practices and system design.
• Act as technical anchor for the team.
• Partner with engineering managers on planning and delivery.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement.

Qualifications & Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of overall software development experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on Golang experience.
• 2+ years in technical leadership roles.
• Strong experience with distributed systems and cloud platforms.
• Project Tech Stack
• Backend: Golang, REST, gRPC
• Cloud: Azure (primary), Google Cloud Platform, AWS
• Databases: PostgreSQL, Spanner, Bigtable, Cassandra
• Caching & Messaging: Redis, Kafka, Pub/Sub
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
• CI/CD & DevOps: GitLab CI, Jenkins, Terraform
• Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog