Senior Go developer on EMCD's CHW Services team building and maintaining backend services for real money flows — holds, debits, credits, provider integrations, reconciliation, and transaction lifecycle. Core stack: Go, PostgreSQL, gRPC/REST, and Kafka, with fully remote work from anywhere in the world.
EMCD is a global crypto ecosystem building products across mining, wallets, payments, custody, and digital asset infrastructure. We are looking for a Senior Go Developer to join one of our backend teams and work on high-load services across financial and mining products. Depending on the team, you may work on transaction lifecycle and money flows, core archtecture tasks, or modernization and migration of core mining services.
Responsibilities
Build new backend services in Go and improve existing products
Integrate external providers via REST and internal services via gRPC and Kafka
Refactor legacy services to reduce support cost, simplify architecture, remove technical debt, and improve test coverage
Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and security for financial flows
Support production systems, investigate incidents, and track operation lifecycle end to end
Provide technical mentorship within the team
Requirements
Production experience with money operations in fintech or crypto: holds, debits, credits, balances, transaction lifecycle, and reconciliation
Strong understanding of how to store and move money between systems safely: decimal precision, operation keys, idempotency, consistency, and auditability
Strong production experience with Go, PostgreSQL, gRPC / REST, and Kafka
Real experience applying microservice patterns to financial systems: Saga, compensation, distributed transactions, outbox, idempotent consumers, and reconciliation loops
Experience integrating external providers via REST, including timeouts, provider-side statuses, delayed reversals, and our side / their side reconciliation