Golang Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Golang Engineer (Fintech): Develop and maintain cloud-native, scalable backend services for a BNPL lending platform with an accent on performance optimization, microservices architecture, and reliable integrations. Focus on designing RESTful and gRPC APIs, optimizing database queries, and automating CI/CD pipelines in a cloud environment.

Location: Work From Anywhere with no location constraints

Company

hirify.global develops financial products focused on BNPL lending services, providing APIs and integrations for merchants and lenders on a GCP-based infrastructure.

What you will do

• Create and support cloud-native, scalable Golang services optimized for performance and low latency.
• Participate in service architecture design and develop RESTful APIs and gRPC services for microservices.
• Work with relational and non-relational databases (Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB) and optimize queries.
• Integrate with message queues like Kafka and manage data format consistency with Schema Registry.
• Develop and maintain integrations with external partner services ensuring stability and security.
• Write unit and component tests, perform code reviews, and support CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments in AWS and Kubernetes.

Requirements

• Fluent Russian and English B1+ are a must
• At least 3 years of professional Golang development experience with large-scale production systems.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, REST, gRPC, and 12-factor app principles.
• Comfortable writing tests and working with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab).
• Ability to collaborate effectively within an international team with workday starting no later than 2 PM (GMT+8)/7 AM (CET).

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS Cognito, DynamoDB, AWS SDKs, Werf, and Terraform.
• Background in writing component tests for Golang and building CI/CD pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Work from anywhere with salaries paid in USD and a global mindset.
• Partial reimbursement of medical expenses.
• 31 calendar days of paid vacation per year.
• Compensation for professional courses or conferences.
• Access to corporate group English classes.
• Annual performance bonus and corporate event travel coverage.

Hiring process

• Rolling application review with response within 2–3 business days if there is a fit.
• If no response within 2–3 weeks, consider the application unsuccessful.