Senior Backend Software Engineer

Our client is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company helping more than 750 clients succeed in a converging world. They go the extra mile for their clients and accelerate their digital transformation with the Mosaic platform enabling their mobile, social, analytics, IoT, and cloud journeys. 

Our client is a USD 3.4 billion company with 90,000+ professionals across five continents, helping global customers with innovative solutions. 

The Group operates in the key industries that drive economic growth, enjoying a leadership position in the construction industry, financial industry, and technology.

We are currently searching for a Senior Software Engineer (Go / gRPC / Kafka):

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain data-intensive Go and Node.js gRPC APIs.
• Build, containerize, and deploy scalable Go microservices on Kubernetes (EKS, GKE).
• Refactor and modernize legacy Node.js services into idiomatic Go services, improving performance and stability.
• Integrate and operate Apache Kafka pipelines for high-throughput event streaming, including producer/consumer logic, schema management, and monitoring.
• Leverage cloud services on AWS and GCP to build resilient, cost-effective solutions.
• Troubleshoot technical issues and ensure platform reliability.
• Conduct thorough code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and champion best practices in testing, CI/CD, and security.
• Participate in architectural design reviews, focusing on scalability, fault tolerance, and cost optimization.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Program Management, QA, and other teams to align delivery with business goals.
• Provide accurate level-of-effort (LOE) estimates during quarterly planning cycles.
• Prototype and evaluate emerging technologies to enhance engineering velocity and reduce operational overhead.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 3+ years of experience building production-grade, highly scalable Go services.
• Proficiency in developing gRPC and REST clients and servers (including protobuf contracts and Client/Server communication).
• Hands-on experience with Kafka stream-processing applications (schemas, topics, ACLs, consumers, offset handling).
• 3+ years of experience with AWS (S3, CloudFront, EKS, etc.).
• 1+ year of experience with GCP (Cloud Storage, Kafka, GKE, CDN, etc.).
• 2+ years of experience designing and using MongoDB (schemas, indexing, sharding).

Desired 

• 2+ years developing application services using Node.js + Mongo + Express + React.
• 3+ years of experience with EKS/GKE, Helm charts, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.
• 1+ year of experience with Linux Bash scripting for automation and operational tasks.
• Exposure to Redis, Docker, Git, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with ETL pipelines and CRUD operations.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills with the ability to work in a globally distributed team.

Languages

• Advanced Oral English.
• Native Spanish.

Note:

• Fully remote.



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• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 3+ years of experience building production-grade, highly scalable Go services.
• Proficiency in developing gRPC and REST clients and servers (including protobuf contracts and Client/Server communication).
• Hands-on experience with Kafka stream-processing applications (schemas, topics, ACLs, consumers, offset handling).
• 3+ years of experience with AWS (S3, CloudFront, EKS, etc.).
• 1+ year of experience with GCP (Cloud Storage, Kafka, GKE, CDN, etc.).
• 2+ years of experience designing and using MongoDB (schemas, indexing, sharding).