Go Architect / Solution Architect (Go)

The project focuses on building and evolving a high-performance, scalable distributed platform designed to support complex business operations and rapid product growth. The system is developed in Go, with a strong emphasis on efficient concurrency models, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve scalable distributed systems in Go, choosing appropriate concurrency models and balancing performance with maintainability.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to refine high-level business goals into actionable technical plans and delivery roadmaps.
• Anticipate and highlight edge cases, risks, and technical constraints early in planning to avoid implementation issues.
• Represent the engineering team in meetings with external stakeholders, explain technical topics in clear business-centric terms, and challenge unrealistic requirements.
• Lead and perform code reviews for senior engineers, maintaining high standards for code quality, resilience, and reliability.
• Drive improvements in CI/CD pipelines and engineering processes to help the team ship high-quality code faster and safely.

Must-haves

• 7+ years of software development experience.
• 4+ years of hands-on, production-level Go experience, including deep knowledge of goroutines, channels, context, the memory model, and concurrency patterns.
• Higher education in Computer Science or software development.
• Extensive experience with AI and its implementation/configuration within a team.
• Experience in fintech, banking, or other regulated/high-compliance domains.
• Proven experience designing distributed, microservice-based, and/or high-load systems.
• Strong REST and/or gRPC API design expertise, including versioning and backward compatibility.
• Solid knowledge of PostgreSQL/MySQL, including schema design, query optimization, and transactions.
• Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS and event-driven architecture.
• Strong Docker and Kubernetes knowledge.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience designing systems for high performance and maintainability.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• Understanding of scalability, fault tolerance, security, and observability, including metrics, logging, and tracing.
• Experience conducting architecture reviews and writing designs.
• Advanced English or higher.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with MongoDB, Cassandra, ClickHouse, or Redis.
• Exposure to AWS, GCP, Azure, and cloud-native architecture patterns.
• Experience with Domain-Driven Design or Event-Driven Architecture.
• Previous experience as an Architect, Staff Engineer, or Principal Engineer.
• Familiarity with Java, Python, or C++ for cross-team collaboration.
• Experience integrating AI/LLM components into production systems.
• Contributions to open-source Go projects or internal frameworks/libraries.
• Experience with SRE practices, including SLI/SLO, error budgets, and incident response.
• Relevant AWS, GCP, or Azure architecture certifications.

Benefits

• Work fully remotely, from an office, or in a hybrid arrangement.
• Opportunity to change projects and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Professional, financial, and career growth.
• Mentoring and adaptation support for new employees.
• Opportunity to earn up to an additional USD 1,000 per month, depending on expertise level, included in the annual bonus.
• Access to a corporate training portal and continuously updated knowledge base.
• Corporate activities and office amenities.
• Certification compensation, including AWS and PMP.
• Referral program.
• Private health insurance and compensation for sports activities.