Senior / Mid Backend Software Engineer (Go)

WellSync is a modern health-tech company on a mission to make virtual care accessible to everyone. They are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain microservices in Go, integrating with third-party healthcare systems and ensuring HIPAA compliance.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain microservices in Go within a monorepo containing 19 services and 25+ shared packages
• Work with gRPC and gRPC-Gateway for inter-service communication and REST API transcoding
• Integrate with third-party healthcare systems including EMRs, pharmacy networks, and payment providers
• Build event-driven features using Apache Kafka — CloudEvents, dead-letter queues, and event scheduling
• Write and optimize PostgreSQL queries (with PostGIS) and manage schema migrations
• Implement and maintain column-level encryption, searchable encryption, and other security measures for patient data
• Contribute to our observability stack: OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Tempo, and Pyroscope
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Skaffold, Helm, and Ko
• Write integration tests using Testcontainers against real PostgreSQL and Kafka instances
• Participate in code reviews, pair programming sessions, and architecture discussions

Requirements:

• 3–7 years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in Go — or a strong backend language with a genuine commitment to Go full-time
• Production experience building and operating microservices
• Solid PostgreSQL skills: schema design, migrations, and indexing strategy
• Experience with message brokers: Kafka, RabbitMQ, or comparable event-driven systems
• Familiarity with gRPC / Protocol Buffers — or strong REST API design with eagerness to adopt gRPC
• Containerization and Kubernetes experience: deploying, debugging, reading manifests
• Understanding of auth patterns: OAuth2, JWT, RBAC
• Comfort with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
• Strong focus on code quality, testing, and security best practices
• Healthcare or health-tech background: HIPAA compliance, PHI handling
• Hands-on Azure experience: AKS, Blob Storage, Key Vault
• Observability tooling: OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus
• Data encryption patterns: column-level or searchable encryption
• Third-party API integrations: payment gateways, healthcare systems, EHRs
• Open-source contributions