Software Development & Architecture
Senior Golang Software Engineer | Sunshine Coast | QLD
Location
Sunshine Coast
Location type
Hybrid
Job type
Permanent
Salary
140,000 - 180,000 AUD
Pay Frequency
Per Annum
Benefits
$140,000 to $180,000
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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!
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