Role: Golang Lead / Golang Developer
Location: Remote / Hybrid, as applicable
Position Summary
We are seeking experienced Golang Lead / Developer candidates to support Centene Corporation’s healthcare technology initiatives. The ideal candidate will design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services and microservices using Go, with strong hands-on experience in PostgreSQL, API development, cloud-native engineering, and Agile delivery. This role requires strong technical ownership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and the ability to build reliable solutions that support healthcare business needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services and microservices using Golang.
- Build and enhance RESTful and/or gRPC APIs for enterprise applications.
- Develop efficient database queries, stored procedures, and data access logic using PostgreSQL.
- Collaborate with architects, product owners, business analysts, QA teams, DevOps engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable software designs.
- Write clean, testable, and reusable code while following coding standards and best practices.
- Participate in code reviews, unit testing, integration testing, and production support activities.
- Support CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and containerized application delivery.
- Troubleshoot application issues, analyze root causes, and implement long-term fixes.
- For Lead roles, guide developers, review technical designs, drive delivery planning, and ensure engineering best practices across the team.
Required Skills and Experience
- 8+ years of overall software development experience for Lead roles; 5+ years for Developer roles.
- Strong hands-on programming experience with Go / Golang.
- Experience developing microservices, APIs, and distributed backend systems.
- Strong PostgreSQL experience, including schema design, query optimization, indexing, joins, stored procedures/functions, and performance tuning.
- Good understanding of Go concepts such as structs, interfaces, slices, maps, goroutines, channels, error handling, and concurrency patterns.
- Experience with REST APIs, JSON, authentication, authorization, and secure coding practices.
- Experience with Git-based version control systems such as GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket.
- Experience writing unit tests and supporting quality gates for code coverage and build validation.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams with sprint planning, backlog refinement, and iterative delivery.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills
- Healthcare domain experience, especially health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, claims, eligibility, provider, member, or care management systems.
- Knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards such as HL7, FHIR, or EDI transactions.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized deployments.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience with messaging or streaming platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies.
- Exposure to NoSQL databases such as MongoDB is a plus.
- Experience creating or maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with observability tools, logging, monitoring, and application performance management.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field is preferred. Equivalent professional experience may also be considered.
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a hands-on backend engineer who can contribute immediately to Go-based application development while helping build scalable, secure, and maintainable technology solutions. For Lead roles, the candidate should also demonstrate technical leadership, mentoring ability, strong delivery ownership, and the ability to partner effectively with architecture, product, and engineering teams.
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