Go (Golang) Developer – Contract – Stellenbosch – Hybrid Job at Datafin Recruitment

ENVIRONMENT:

• Our client is a specialist technology consultancy that provides expert developers to leading banking, financial services and technology organisations across South Africa.
• They are seeking a Go Developer to join a backend engineering team responsible for designing, developing and maintaining modern, high-performance services, APIs and microservices.
• The role is suited to a developer who writes clean, efficient and reliable code, understands distributed systems and is comfortable working within cloud-native, containerised environments.

DUTIES:

• Design, develop and maintain backend services and microservices using Go (Golang).
• Build and integrate RESTful and gRPC APIs with internal and third-party systems.
• Work with relational and NoSQL databases, designing data models and writing efficient queries.
• Build services that are reliable under load, using Go's concurrency features (goroutines and channels) effectively.
• Containerise and deploy services using Docker and Kubernetes on a cloud platform.
• Write clean, tested and well-documented code, and take part in code reviews.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and production support.
• Collaborate with product owners, architects, testers and other developers in an Agile team.
• At Senior level, guide and mentor intermediate developers and contribute to technical design and architecture decisions.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Intermediate: around 3 to 5 years' commercial software development experience, with solid hands-on Go. Senior: 5+ years, with strong production Go experience.
• Strong experience building backend services, REST APIs and microservices in Go.
• Good understanding of concurrency, distributed systems and performance optimisation.
• Experience with gRPC, message queues or event streaming (such as Kafka) advantageous.
• Experience with relational databases (such as PostgreSQL or MySQL) and ideally a NoSQL database (such as MongoDB or Redis).
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes and a cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and Agile ways of working.
• Banking, payments or financial services experience advantageous.
• A relevant degree or diploma in Computer Science, IT or a related field advantageous.

ATTRIBUTES:

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with good attention to detail.
• Clear communicator who works well in a team and with business stakeholders.
• Takes ownership of work and delivers reliably to deadlines.
• Curious and keen to keep learning, especially around cloud-native and distributed systems.