[Hiring] Lead Go Engineer @EPAM Systems

Role Description

We are looking for a Lead Go Engineer to strengthen our team and drive the design, development, and delivery of high-quality software solutions. This role combines hands-on technical expertise with leadership responsibilities, offering the opportunity to guide a development team while contributing directly to building scalable, efficient, and reliable systems using Go.

Thank you for your interest in this position. Please note that only candidates whose experience closely matches the job requirements will be contacted. If you do not receive an email from us, please do not be discouraged—feel free to apply for other positions that better align with your experience. If you have any questions, you can reach us at [email protected].

• Participate in full-cycle application development: design, implement, test, and launch solutions in Go
• Create and develop features based on requirement specifications and design documents
• Write clean, testable, and high-quality code following best practices and clean code principles
• Take part in the code review process
• Identify, escalate, and resolve technical issues and problems that might occur
• Communicate with the customer to clarify requirements
• Mentor and lead members of the development team
• Lead and communicate project scoping, roadmap, and architecture discussions within the development team
• Coordinate, plan, and track tasks and activities
• Ensure that the Agile team is capable of consuming stakeholder demand

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience, including 2+ years of hands-on experience with Go
• Good English communication skills – at least B2
• Good communication and problem-solving skills
• Experience with communication protocols such as REST/HTTP and gRPC
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases
• Familiarity with high- and low-level design patterns
• Experience with CI/CD support and design
• Experience with Docker, cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.), and Kubernetes (including controllers and operators)
• Proficiency in developing services or microservices
• Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience with testing (Unit tests, etc.)

Requirements

• Ability to debug HTTP API using Chrome Developer Tools, cURL/Postman