About the Job
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🖥️ Work Setup: Hybrid (1–2x onsite)
🕕 Shift: Morning (6:00 AM–3:00 PM)
📍 Location: BGC, Taguig
💼 Employment: Full-time, direct hiring
About the Client
Our client is a leading global IT and consulting organization that partners with enterprise and banking clients to secure, modernize, and scale their digital infrastructure. They specialize in network security, cloud transformation, and large-scale IT operations, supporting mission-critical environments with high security and compliance standards.
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Golang Engineer with strong experience in building scalable, cloud-native backend systems. This role is best suited for someone who has a solid background in distributed application development using Go, hands-on experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka, and a strong understanding of deploying and managing services in AWS EKS (Kubernetes) environments.
The ideal candidate should also be comfortable working with CI/CD automation, particularly using GitHub Actions, and enjoy collaborating across engineering teams to deliver reliable, production-ready solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and support high-performance, scalable, and resilient backend services using Golang
- Develop and maintain event-driven and asynchronous systems powered by Apache Kafka
- Deploy and manage containerized applications in Kubernetes, with a strong preference for AWS EKS
- Create, improve, and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and related automation tools
- Work closely with DevOps, QA, Product, and Architecture teams to deliver end-to-end technical solutions
- Continuously improve application performance, reliability, scalability, and security in production
- Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and architecture planning
- Investigate and resolve production issues, ensuring system health, uptime, and operational stability
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 6+ years of overall software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years focused on Golang
- Strong knowledge of Go fundamentals, including concurrency, memory handling, and microservices design
- Practical experience building and maintaining Kafka-based systems, including producers, consumers, topics, and schema management
- Hands-on expertise in Docker and Kubernetes, ideally within an AWS EKS environment
- Strong experience with CI/CD automation, especially GitHub Actions (or equivalent tools)
- Solid understanding of REST APIs, gRPC, and event/message-driven architectures
- Exposure to cloud-native development principles and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a strong advantage
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a commitment to writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code
📩 Apply now or send your resume to: trixie@socium.team