Go Backend Engineer at AA Kenya

We are looking for a talented Go (Golang) Developer to design, build, and maintain high-performance, scalable microservices that power our customer-facing and internal systems. The job holder will be working in a modern, cloud-native environment on a microservices architecture built primarily in Go, running on Kubernetes (AWS/EKS or GCP). 

Key Responsibilities.

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and resilient microservices in Go
• Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code (we love idiomatic Go!)
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, DevOps, and other backend teams
• Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews
• Optimize performance, latency, and cost of services
• Integrate with third-party APIs (payments, SMS, mapping, insurance providers, etc.)
• Help evolve our CI/CD pipelines and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry)

Tech Stack You’ll Work With

• Backend: Go (1.22+), gRPC, REST, Gin
• Data: PostgreSQL, Redis
• Infrastructure: Docker, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
• Message brokers: RabbitMq
• Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger

Minimum job requirements:

For appointment to this position, one must possess:

• 3 plus years of backend development experience.
• 2 plus years of professional experience with Go in production systems (please share your GitHub or public projects if possible)
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST/gRPC APIs, and distributed systems
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and caching (Redis)
• Comfortable with Git, Docker, and CI/CD workflows
• Good knowledge of software engineering best practices (testing, code reviews, documentation)
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.