Senior Golang Engineer | Sunshine Coast
* Edge platform, start-up
This is an opportunity to join an innovative start-up looking for a Senior Golang Engineer to join their team. You will be playing a key role in building and optimising large-scale, high-performance backend systems. If you're passionate about clean architecture, efficient services, and solving complex engineering challenges, this is an opportunity to influence technical strategy and shape mission-critical products.
What You'll Do
* Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services using Go
* Architect scalable microservices and distributed systems
* Optimise application performance, reliability, and observability
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams (DevOps, Product, Frontend, Security)
* Implement robust APIs and integration layers
* Drive best practices for code quality, testing, and CI/CD
* Contribute to technical decision-making and mentor junior engineers
What We're Looking For
* 5+ years of software engineering experience, with experience in Go
* Solid understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems
* Experience with gRPC, REST, and event-driven architecture
* Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
* Strong knowledge of containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
* Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
* Comfortable with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing
* Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive engineering mindset
Nice to Have
* Experience in high-throughput or real-time systems
* Knowledge of messaging systems (Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ)
* Exposure to Terraform or similar IaC frameworks
* Background in security-focused engineering
What's in It for You
* Join an exciting, innovative, early stage start-up building state of the art solutions for hardware.
* Opportunity to work with modern technologies and architectures
* Influence technical direction and shape backend strategy
* Work in a supportive, engineering-driven culture
* Be based on the beautiful Sunshine Coast, 2 mins from the beach