Representative profile

Senior Go Backend Engineer

J. O. · 9+ years · UTC+0 (GMT)

Availability
Available now
Rate band
$$ · $80 to $105 / hr
Experience
9+ years
Industries
Infrastructure, Fintech
  • Go
  • gRPC
  • Kubernetes
  • PostgreSQL
  • Builds Go services meant to run for years: small binaries, clear interfaces, few dependencies
  • Deep with gRPC and service-to-service communication in Kubernetes environments
  • Has owned systems where throughput and latency were the product

This profile represents the systems end of the backend pool: an engineer who reaches for Go when the service has to be fast, predictable, and easy to operate.

Background

Nine years in backend engineering, the last six almost entirely in Go. Has built the kind of services other services depend on: APIs, workers, and internal platforms in infrastructure and fintech companies. Fluent with gRPC for service contracts, Kubernetes as the runtime, and PostgreSQL when the data actually matters. Writes code reviewers thank them for.

Strengths

  • Idiomatic Go. Simple, explicit code with careful error handling and honest concurrency, not cleverness.
  • Service design. Draws boundaries with gRPC and protobuf so teams can move independently.
  • Performance work. Profiles before optimizing, and knows where Go services actually spend their time.
  • Operability. Ships services with metrics, tracing, and graceful degradation from day one.

Typical engagement

Full time on a core backend or platform team, often taking ownership of a critical service or leading a migration to Go. GMT hours, strong overlap with both Europe and the US East Coast morning. Available now.

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