We are looking for a Junior Golang Developer for an important U.S.-based client.

Project: Acceleration of platform alignment and deployment repeatability to support large, complex customer engagements and regulated environments, with an emphasis on improving release velocity, architectural consistency, and time-to-market.

SKILLS

MUST HAVES

• Junior 3 years' experience

• Solid experience developing backend services in Golang.

• Ability to build and maintain simple RESTful HTTP APIs, including routing, basic middleware, and error handling.

• Familiarity with containerization concepts and building Docker images for Go services.

• Exposure to Kubernetes as a runtime environment and willingness to learn how Helm charts are used to deploy services.

• Basic understanding of configuration management using YAML and environment variables, with some experience using configuration libraries.

• Experience working with at least one public cloud provider.

• Comfortable using structured logging and health endpoints to troubleshoot services in lower environments.

• Experience working with CI pipelines (e.g., Jenkins or similar) to run tests, linters, and builds as part of the development workflow.

• Strong debugging skills, ownership mindset, and openness to feedback during code reviews.

NICE TO HAVES

• Some exposure to building or maintaining Kubernetes operators/controllers in Golang, or interest in learning operator patterns.

• Familiarity with SSE, webhooks, or other event-driven HTTP patterns.

• Basic understanding of observability concepts (logging, metrics, health checks) and how they integrate into monitoring stacks such as Prometheus.

• Experience using Docker Compose or similar tools for local multi-service development.

• Awareness of secure handling of secrets, certificates, and credentials in containerized environments.

• Exposure to additional scripting or programming languages used around backend services (e.g., Lua or Python for QA/automation) and comfort navigating a polyglot codebase.

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