Senior Golang Backend Engineer – EV Charging PlatformRole OverviewWe are looking for a hands-on Senior Golang Backend Engineer to develop, enhance, and support a cloud-native EV Charging platform. The role focuses on building scalable backend services, distributed systems, and event-driven workflows while ensuring high availability and production stability.
You will work closely with technical leads, product, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to deliver reliable backend solutions and integrations.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services, RESTful APIs, and microservices using Golang.
- Build scalable event-driven and asynchronous workflows for distributed systems.
- Improve application performance, scalability, reliability, and availability.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, performing root cause analysis where required.
- Work with PostgreSQL, including SQL queries, indexing, and performance optimisation.
- Develop and maintain integrations with external platforms and third-party systems.
- Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams on cloud deployments, monitoring, and operational readiness.
- Participate in code reviews and ensure code quality, maintainability, and engineering best practices.
- Take ownership of assigned features and technical deliverables from development through production.
Must-Have Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience developing production applications using Golang (Go).
- Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and microservices.
- Good understanding of concurrency, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems.
- Strong SQL skills with experience in PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
- Experience with event-streaming technologies such as Kafka.
- Hands-on experience troubleshooting and supporting production systems.
- Experience with cloud-native environments using AWS or Azure.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience working with distributed, real-time, or high-traffic systems.
Good to Have
- Beginner to intermediate knowledge of Java.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog or Sentry.
- Exposure to Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools.
- Experience within EV charging, mobility, IoT, or device-integrated platforms.
- Knowledge of EV charging protocols such as OCPI and OCPP.
- Experience developing real-time and device-integrated systems.
Key TechnologiesGolang | REST APIs | Microservices | PostgreSQL | Kafka | AWS/Azure | Docker | Kubernetes | Terraform | Datadog | Sentry | Java | OCPI | OCPP