Go Backend Engineer at AA Kenya

We are looking for a talented Go (Golang) Developer to design, build, and maintain high-performance, scalable microservices that power our customer-facing and internal systems. The job holder will be working in a modern, cloud-native environment on a microservices architecture built primarily in Go, running on Kubernetes (AWS/EKS or GCP).

Key Responsibilities.


Design, develop, and maintain scalable and resilient microservices in Go
Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code (we love idiomatic Go!)
Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, DevOps, and other backend teams
Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews
Optimize performance, latency, and cost of services
Integrate with third-party APIs (payments, SMS, mapping, insurance providers, etc.)
Help evolve our CI/CD pipelines and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry)


Tech Stack You'll Work With


Backend: Go (1.22+), gRPC, REST, Gin
Data: PostgreSQL, Redis
Infrastructure: Docker, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
Message brokers: RabbitMq
Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger


Minimum job requirements:

For appointment to this position, one must possess:


3 plus years of backend development experience.
2 plus years of professional experience with Go in production systems (please share your GitHub or public projects if possible)
Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST/gRPC APIs, and distributed systems
Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and caching (Redis)
Comfortable with Git, Docker, and CI/CD workflows
Good knowledge of software engineering best practices (testing, code reviews, documentation)
Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.