Golang Backend developer

<p><b>Job Description:</b></p> <div> </div> <div> <p style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">1) Mandatory Requirements (Shortlist only if ALL are met)</p> <ul style="color:#222222; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:small; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; white-space:normal; background-color:#ffffff; text-decoration-thickness:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial"> <li style="margin-left:15px"> <p>Experience: 5 8 years professional software development; recent, hands-on Golang in production.</p> </li> <li style="margin-left:15px"> <p>Production track record: Has built, deployed, and supported live systems (not POCs only).</p> </li> <li style="margin-left:15px"> <p>Scalable systems exposure: Event-driven microservices that run at scale (throughput/concurrency).</p> </li> <li style="margin-left:15px"> <p>Reasoning & math: Can quickly translate business rules into code (e.g., compute GST 28% on 100).</p> </li> <li style="margin-left:15px"> <p>Rapid ramp-up: Can ship to production within 1 week of onboarding (env setup, first ticket, release).</p> </li> <li style="margin-left:15px"> <p>Communication: Can clearly explain own architecture, trade-offs, and contribution.</p> </li> <li style="margin-left:15px"> <p>Coding quality: Smart, idiomatic Go (clean design, tests, error handling, performance awareness).</p> </li> <li style="margin-left:15px"> <p>Event-driven architecture: Kafka/SQS/SNS, idempotency, retries, dead-lettering.</p> </li> <li style="margin-left:15px"> <p>gRPC: Protobuf contracts, versioning/backward compatibility, interceptors (auth/logging).</p> </li> <li style="margin-left:15px"> <p>Data: Strong DynamoDB (modeling, partitions/GSIs/LSIs, capacity, pagination, consistency).<br /> Bonus if familiar with Postgres basics (ALTER, indexing, replication concepts).</p> </li> <li style="margin-left:15px"> <p>Security: OAuth 2.0, JWT flows.</p> </li> <li style="margin-left:15px"> <p>Cloud: AWS with Lambdas & serverless patterns.</p> </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">2) Frontend Requirement (30% of the role)</p> <ul style="color:#222222; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:small; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; white-space:normal; background-color:#ffffff; text-decoration-thickness:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial"> <li style="margin-left:15px"> <p>ReactJS 1 year hands-on.</p> </li> <li style="margin-left:15px"> <p>Comfortable re-using existing components, API integration, basic state patterns.</p> </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">3) Nice-to-Haves (Plus)</p> <ul style="color:#222222; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:small; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; white-space:normal; background-color:#ffffff; text-decoration-thickness:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial"> <li style="margin-left:15px"> <p>AI coding tools exposure (e.g., Copilot/Codex/Sonnet/Cursor) with responsible use-candidate has used these to accelerate 70 80% of a feature while maintaining code quality.</p> </li> <li style="margin-left:15px"> <p>Terraform & deployment knowledge (CI/CD, environment promotion).</p> </li> </ul> </div>