Mid-to-Senior Golang Engineer
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Contract
3 weeks ago
$40 - $55 USD
Key skills
GolangAIAWSGoogle CloudOpenShiftBigTableSpannerCI/CDCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
A large, highly regulated financial services enterprise is seeking an Engineer III to support and evolve a mission-critical loyalty and rewards platform. This role focuses on building high-scale, cloud-native services using Golang and Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform), supporting massive data volumes and global users.
This is a core platform engineering role supporting systems that directly impact customer engagement at scale. You'll work on distributed systems in a compliance-heavy environment, partnering closely with global engineering teams. Ideal for engineers who want ownership, system-level impact, and exposure to modern cloud and AI-assisted development tools without sacrificing work-life balance.
Contract Duration: 6-12 months with ability to convert
Required Skills & Experience
Desired Skills & Experience
What You Will Be Doing
Tech Breakdown
Daily Responsibilities
This is a core platform engineering role supporting systems that directly impact customer engagement at scale. You'll work on distributed systems in a compliance-heavy environment, partnering closely with global engineering teams. Ideal for engineers who want ownership, system-level impact, and exposure to modern cloud and AI-assisted development tools without sacrificing work-life balance.
Contract Duration: 6-12 months with ability to convert
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years building cloud-based applications
- 3+ years Golang development
- Strong Google Cloud Platform experience (required)
- Experience with Bigtable, Spanner, or similar managed services
- CI/CD pipeline setup and maintenance
- Debugging, troubleshooting, and system optimization experience
- Strong understanding of private and public cloud environments
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- Experience leveraging AI tools and/or building AI agents
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
Desired Skills & Experience
- Microservices architecture and design experience
- Multi-cloud exposure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, OpenShift/OCP)
- Strong data modeling fundamentals
- Experience in highly regulated environments
What You Will Be Doing
- Design and build scalable cloud services and frameworks
- Develop and maintain data-intensive pipelines
- Participate in system design, estimation, and deployment
- Conduct code reviews and ensure engineering best practices
- Diagnose production issues and perform root-cause analysis
- Collaborate with cross-functional and global teams
Tech Breakdown
- 50% Golang / Microservices
- 30% Google Cloud Platform (Bigtable, Spanner, managed services)
- 10% CI/CD & DevOps
- 10% AI-assisted development
Daily Responsibilities
- 70% Hands-on engineering
- 20% Team collaboration
- 10% Design & documentation