Senior Golang Developer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior Golang Developer (Fintech): Building high-performance, low-latency systems for a global Forex/CFD brokerage with an accent on independently investigating complex tasks and proposing optimal architectural solutions. Focus on building high-throughput distributed systems with strict performance and reliability requirements.

Location: Hybrid Working Policy

Company

hirify.global designs, engineers and markets a growing range of innovative trading and investing products that meet their expectations for choice, creativity and control, and which are backed by risk management tools, education - and a great customer experience.

What you will do

• Design and implement low-latency, high-throughput trading microservices in Go.
• Optimize performance at all levels: CPU/memory consumption, GC pressure, lock-free structures, batching strategies.
• Implement efficient concurrency patterns.
• Build resilient distributed services with failover, back-pressure handling, and graceful degradation.
• Interact with Product Owner/Business Analyst to design flows, logical schemes, algorithms.
• Conduct cross-team code reviews, propose improvements, exchange experience with peers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with Golang , including deep understanding of concurrency.
• Strong experience implementing microservices using event-driven and RPC-based communication.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases including query optimization and schema design.
• Understanding of containerization, orchestration, infrastructure as code tools.
• Solid experience with at least one message queue/broker.
• Experience in building high-load systems with low latency.
• Strong debugging and profiling skills.

Nice to have

• Experience developing systems for Forex/CFD trading.
• Knowledge of efficient binary protocols: Protobuf, SBE, FlatBuffers.
• Experience with high-performance in-memory data structures.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
• Understanding of FIX API integrations.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid Working Policy
• Discretionary performance related bonus
• Personalized Flex-Benefits
• A focus on your wellbeing, including talks and access to self-development tools.
• Medical insurance for employees.
• Comprehensive leave package of 40 days inclusive of Public Holidays