Senior Golang Developer

Immediate need for a talented Senior Golang Developer. This is a 04+ Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Richmond/McLean, VA(Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID:25-81092

Pay Range: $65 - $75/hour.  Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
 
Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Go (Golang) for the Business Core platform.
• Work with PostgreSQL and AWS Neptune to model and query complex relationships
• Build and optimize APIs (GraphQL and REST) that power critical customer and entity data flows.
• Collaborate with engineers, product folks, and anyone else who can tolerate our Slack threads.
• Dive into large-scale data ingestion pipelines (S3, Lambdas, etc.) and make them faster and smarter.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines (OnePipeline) and obsess over automation.
• Ensure code is secure, performant, and doesn’t explode under load.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Skills-Go (Golang), PostgreSQL, AWS Neptune,  AWS services (Fargate, Lambda, S3, IAM, RDS)
• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with at least 3 years in Go.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL and GraphQL.
• Familiarity with AWS services (Fargate, Lambda, S3, IAM, RDS, etc.) and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with Graph databases (bonus points if you’ve wrestled with Neptune/Gremlin).
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and GraphQL.
• Comfort with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Fargate/ECS/EKS).
• Knowledge of distributed systems and data modeling principles.
• A mindset for clean, maintainable, and testable code.
• Ability to work in a collaborative environment with multiple teams.

Our client is a leading financial services Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
 
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