Go (Golang) Developer – Contract – Stellenbosch – Hybrid

Datafin Recruitment · Stellenbosch, Western Cape

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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.

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.

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.

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.