Backend Developer, Golang

Octal Technical Solutions

full-time

Posted on: 9/28/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Quezon City • 🇵🇭 Philippines

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Mid-LevelSenior

AWSDockerGoGradleGraphQLGRPCJavaKafkaKubernetesMavenMicroservicesMySQLNoSQLPostgresPrometheusScalaSparkSplunkTerraform

About the role

Develop and maintain server-side applications and databases.
Design and implement robust backend systems and microservices ensuring optimal performance and scalability.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance application functionality and improve user experience.
Build and ship customer-facing applications serving thousands of users.
Apply software engineering architecture, component design, coding, documenting, and deploying in production.
Create and maintain unit tests, BDD, and TDD test suites and automate testing.
Work with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker).
Integrate messaging/pub-sub systems and third-party partner APIs.
Monitor and log production systems using Datadog, Prometheus, Jaeger, and similar tools.
Ensure compliance with GDPR, data privacy, company policies, and perform other duties as needed.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
Secondary School / High School Diploma Graduate of a technical-related course or discipline.
5-7 years of experience developing REST or gRPC microservice APIs using protobufs.
5-7 years of experience with B2B SaaS enterprise applications with a large user base.
5-7 years of automation testing experience generating unit, BDD, and TDD.
5-7 years in microservice tech stacks: Java 17+ (Gradle/Maven), GoLang, Scala, Spark.
5-7 years building AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
Production AWS hands-on experience.
Experience working with CI/CD environments.
Experience with pub/sub/messaging systems (SQS, SNS, Kafka, ActiveMQ).
Experience in DevOps activities (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker).
Experience in automated software testing through unit/functional/integration test suites.
Experience with monitoring & logging technologies (Datadog, Splunk, Wazuh, New Relic, Prometheus, Opentelemetry, Jaeger).
Experience with relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL data stores (e.g., Data Lakes).
Golang service development experience.
Protobuf experience.
Extensive REST and GraphQL experience.
APIs & Partner Integrations experience.
AWS Certified Developer (preferred).

Benefits

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Java 17+GoLangScalaSparkREST APIsgRPCunit testingBDDTDDmicroservices

collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingorganizational skillsuser experience enhancement

AWS Certified Developer