Golang Developer at Thoughtworks · Remote only · 5 - 10 years · Profitable · Remote only · Posted 3 Jul 2023

- You have 3+ years of experience using Golang/ Go Programming development language.
- You can write clean, high-quality code in a variety of languages and are also able to spot (and improve) bad code
- You have experience with Agile, Lean and/or Continuous Delivery approaches such as Continuous Integration, TDD, Infrastructure as Code, etc.
- Bonus points if you have knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Docker or Kubernetes

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Founded in 1993, we’ve grown from a small team in Chicago to a leading software consultancy of more than 8000 Thoughtworkers in 17 countries. Our cross-functional teams of strategists, developers, data engineers, and designers bring over two decades of global experience to every partnership.
Thoughtworks invented the concept of distributed agile and we know how to harness the power of global teams to deliver software excellence at scale. Today we help our clients to create their own path to digital fluency and to build organizational resilience to navigate the future.
Our job is to foster a vibrant community where people have the freedom to make an extraordinary impact on the world through technology.
As a Thoughtworker, you are free to seek out the most ambitious challenges. Free to change career paths. Free to use technology as a tool for social change. Free to be yourself.
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Primary Skills:
Python / Golang, RESTful APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux
Core Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Python or Golang.
- Write high-quality, testable, and maintainable code with a focus on performance and scalability.
- Implement automated tests and contribute to CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborate with product, QA, and DevOps teams for end-to-end feature delivery.
- Troubleshoot production issues and provide timely resolutions.
- Participate in design and architecture discussions to improve system efficiency.
- Contribute to improving development processes, coding standards, and best practices.
Experience and Expertise:
- 2–4 years of experience in backend development with Python or Golang.
- Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and OOPS principles.
- Hands-on experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
- Familiarity with Linux development, Docker, and basic cloud concepts (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Proficiency with Git and version control workflows.
- Familiarity with AI-powered development tools or exposure to projects involving large language models (LLMs) is a plus.
Skills:
- Strong analytical and debugging skills with the ability to solve complex problems.
- Good communication and collaboration skills across teams.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while being a strong team player.
- Growth mindset – eagerness to learn new technologies and improve continuously.
Primary Skills:
Python / Golang, RESTful APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux
Core Responsibilities:
- Design & Development: Architect and implement scalable backend services and APIs using Python or Golang, ensuring high performance, resilience, and extensibility.
- System Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of critical modules, from design and development to deployment and support.
- Technical Leadership: Conduct design and code reviews, enforce best practices, and mentor junior engineers to raise the team’s technical bar.
- Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, architects, and other engineers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Performance & Reliability: Troubleshoot complex issues in production systems, identify root causes, and design sustainable long-term solutions.
- Innovation: Evaluate new technologies, contribute to proof-of-concepts, and recommend tools that can improve developer productivity.
- Process Improvement: Drive initiatives to improve coding standards, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing practices.
- Knowledge Sharing: Document designs, create technical guides, and share insights with the broader engineering team.
Experience and Expertise:
- 4–7 years of backend development experience with Python or Golang.
- Strong expertise in designing, developing, and scaling microservices and distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of concurrency, multi-threading, and performance optimization.
- Proficiency with databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with Linux development, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and related services.
- Strong debugging, profiling, and optimization skills for production-grade systems.
- Experience with AI-powered development tools is a strong plus; familiarity with concepts like 'agentic coding' for workflow automation or 'context engineering' for leveraging LLMs in system design is highly desirable.
Skills:
- Strong problem-solving ability, with experience handling complex technical challenges.
- Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor junior engineers.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and articulate trade-offs.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and able to operate independently while aligning with team goals.
- Passionate about engineering culture, quality, and developer productivity.
We are looking for an experienced Developer with experience in compiled languages and ready to work in Golang. You will be responsible for the Development of distributed services GUI and terminal application in Golang. Candidates should have strong understanding of Algorithms, Memory Management and Networking
Required Experience & Skills:
- C/C++/C#/Go/Rust.
- Networking, Database, Linux, Docker.
- Multiprocessing, Multithreading, Distributed computing, Thread synchronization techniques.
- Algorithms and data structures.
- Communication protocols, gRPC, MQTT, REST, Modbus, OPC...
- GUI Programming
- Testing, Debugging and performance optimization.
- REST APIs, MySQL, Redis
- Proficiency with Git for version control and collaborative development workflows.
Primary Skills:
Python / Golang, RESTful APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux
Core Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Python or Golang.
- Write high-quality, testable, and maintainable code with a focus on performance and scalability.
- Implement automated tests and contribute to CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborate with product, QA, and DevOps teams for end-to-end feature delivery.
- Troubleshoot production issues and provide timely resolutions.
- Participate in design and architecture discussions to improve system efficiency.
- Contribute to improving development processes, coding standards, and best practices.
Experience and Expertise:
- 1-2 years of experience in backend development with Python or Golang.
- Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and OOPS principles.
- Hands-on experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
- Familiarity with Linux development, Docker, and basic cloud concepts (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Proficiency with Git and version control workflows.
- Familiarity with AI-powered development tools or exposure to projects involving large language models (LLMs) is a plus.
Skills:
- Strong analytical and debugging skills with the ability to solve complex problems.
- Good communication and collaboration skills across teams.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while being a strong team player.
- Growth mindset – eagerness to learn new technologies and improve continuously.
We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low-latency, distributed systems with RESTful services. You will be responsible for developing new software products (internal) and solving complex technical challenges for scale-ups and enterprise companies. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.
Responsibilities—
- Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, and maintainable code.
- Solving complex technical problems.
- Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code.
- Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards.
- Participating in and driving code reviews.
- Building robust, secure, and scalable microservices.
- Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway.
- Ensuring sub-second server response and will be responsible for implementing relational, document, key, object, or graph data stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed.
- Tracking defects and work with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlog
- Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure.
- Evaluating relevant technologies, influencing and driving architecture and design discussions.
- Architecting & designing the platform.
- Mentoring junior engineers helping them grow, performing code reviews, system monitoring & delegation.
- Writing documentation & create engineering processes.
- Working as an individual contributor.
- Helping drive KPIs with Product.
- Taking ownership of backend systems.
- Helping with unit tests & QA process.
- Scaling the engineering team.
- System scaling to hundreds of millions of users.
- Working with product managers and designs.
Requirements—
- Overall 5-10 years of experience in software development with a strong base in Golang/Java/Python and a degree in Computer Science(optional).
- Experience with Go, K8, Docker, AWS, and CI/CD.
- Experience with micro web frameworks – like Springboot, Gin/Mux.
- Experience in working with microservice architectures, Transactional systems, and Distributed environments.
- Exposure to building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance, and metrics (with something like Hystrix).
- Experience with MySQL, and NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
- Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch and ESB - Camel, ActiveMQ.
- DevOps experience.
- Experience with AWS stack.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal to no guidance in a fluid environment.
- To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems.
- To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements scope and priorities.
- To be experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environments.
- To have led or mentored an engineering team before(optional).
- To have contributed to open-source projects.
- To have a strong drive & desire for continued growth.
- Proficiency in English.
- Experience with Web3(optional).
Benefits—
- Best-in-class salary: We hire strong talent and compensate accordingly.
- Proximity Talks: Meet and learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners.
- Continuous learning: Work with a world-class team and stay close to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development.
- High-impact work: Build AI-first systems and products used at scale by global clients.
About us—
Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.
Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.

Experience and Expertise
● 7– 10 years of experience in backend development with Python or Golang.
● Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
● Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and OOPS principles.
● Hands-on experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
● Familiarity with Linux development, Docker, and basic cloud concepts
(AWS/GCP/Azure).
● Proficiency with Git and version control workflows.
● Familiarity with AI-powered development tools or exposure to projects involving large
language models (LLMs) is a plus.
Skills
● Strong analytical and debugging skills with the ability to solve complex problems.
● Good communication and collaboration skills across teams.
● Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while being a strong team
player.
● Growth mindset – eagerness to learn new technologies
Golang Developer
Experience: 6-8 years
Employment Type: Permanent, Full-time
Desired Skill: Golang,Python, GRPC, RestAPIs, AWS
Work Mode: Pune, India
Availability: Immediate Joiners
Must have skills:
● 6+years of Software Development experience
● 5+years of GoLang programming; Prefers additional proficiency in Python
● Knowledgeable in writing REST APIs
● Comfortable programming in production grade systems
● Experience with building HTTP based services
● Strong background of optimizing performance
● Familiarity with event-driven systems
● Experience dealing with highly concurrent, distributed architectures/systems.
Good to have skills:
- Exposure to relational databases
- Experience with Cloud Providers such as AWS is an advantage; cloud privileged access (CIEM, IAM roles, ephemeral credentials)
- Experience using Terraform to manage infrastructure as code would be an advantage
- Hands-on experience building or extending Privileged Access Management (PAM) capabilities — credential vaulting, secrets management, password rotation, just-in-time / time-bound privileged access
- Working knowledge of privileged session management and session recording — session proxying/brokering, keystroke and video capture, session replay, live monitoring and termination, tamper-evident audit trails
- Familiarity with remote access protocols and gateways — SSH, RDP, HTTPS/web-based sessions; protocol proxying and man-in-the-middle session interception
● 4–7 years of backend development experience with Python or Golang.
● Strong expertise in designing, developing, and scaling microservices and distributed
systems.
● Solid understanding of concurrency, multi-threading, and performance optimization.
● Proficiency with databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching systems (Redis, Memcached),
and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
● Hands-on experience with Linux development, Docker, and Kubernetes.
● Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and related services.
● Strong debugging, profiling, and optimization skills for production-grade systems.
● Experience with AI-powered development tools is a strong plus; familiarity with
concepts like 'agentic coding' for workflow automation or 'context engineering' for
leveraging LLMs in system design is highly desirable.
● Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor junior engineers.
● 2–4 years of experience in backend development with Python or Golang.
● Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
● Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and OOPS principles.
● Hands-on experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
● Familiarity with Linux development, Docker, and basic cloud concepts
(AWS/GCP/Azure).
● Proficiency with Git and version control workflows.
● Familiarity with AI-powered development tools or exposure to projects involving large
language models (LLMs) is a plus.
Tech Lead – Backend
Roles & Responsibilities
The company is building the operational backbone for how B2B enterprises run their business.
As a Tech Lead on the backend team, you will own the technical direction for a core domain of the platform—systems where correctness is non-negotiable, scale is unforgiving, and edge cases never stop coming. You will also mentor Senior Engineers in your pod.
This is a hands-on role: you will write code and design systems yourself day to day, pair on complex problems, review the work of engineers around you, and be the person who figures out what's actually broken before it becomes a fire.
You will report into the Engineering Manager / Head of Engineering. This is not a feature-factory role. You are here to raise the level of abstraction the team works at, not simply to ship tickets faster.
What You'll Own
- Design and build core platform services that handle complex business logic reliably at scale.
- Architect and own integrations with external enterprise systems, including their quirks, rate limits, and failure modes.
- Build APIs that enterprise engineering teams actually want to integrate with, not just ones that technically work.
- Own production debugging end to end: diagnose issues across services using logs, traces, and metrics, and make incidents boring rather than fires.
- Embed security and compliance thinking into your systems by default, not as a retrofit.
- Mentor Senior Backend Engineers in your pod: pair on hard problems, review their work, and help them grow as engineers.
- Set the architectural direction for your domain: choose frameworks, patterns, and abstractions that shape the platform for years.
- Lead design reviews and code reviews, and set the technical standard the rest of the team calibrates against.
- Hold a clear bar for quality, follow-through, and ownership across the engineers you work with, ensuring systems are healthy in production, not just merged.
- Partner with Product, Implementation, and Customer Success as the engineer who understands the system deeply enough to challenge requirements when necessary.
- Raise the technical bar for the engineers around you without slowing the team down.
Ideal Candidate
- Strong Tech Lead / Staff Engineer / Lead Engineer Profile
- Proven experience operating at Tech Lead, Staff Engineer, or Lead Engineer level.
- Mandatory – Overall Experience
- Minimum 6+ years of overall Software Engineering / Development experience building production backend systems.
- Mandatory – Tech Lead Ownership
- Proven Tech Lead ownership with experience setting technical direction, architecture, frameworks, or engineering standards used by other engineers.
- Mandatory – Backend Development
- Strong hands-on backend development experience with deep proficiency in at least one backend programming language such as Python, Java, or Golang.
- Mandatory – System Design & Distributed Systems
- Strong experience in system design and distributed systems, including architectural trade-offs, scalability, failure modes, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
- Mandatory – APIs & Integrations
- Experience designing and building APIs, backend services, and external/enterprise integrations.
- Strong experience owning complex business logic and production systems.
- Mandatory – Technical Leadership
- Formal technical leadership experience, including mentoring Senior Engineers, conducting design and code reviews, driving engineering quality, and leading technical decisions across a team.
- Mandatory – Hands-on IC + Tech Lead
- Must be a hands-on Individual Contributor + Tech Lead, with approximately 70–80% hands-on coding/engineering involvement.
- Pure people-management profiles are not suitable.
- Mandatory – Company Background
- Experience working in Product Companies, Startups, or B2B SaaS organizations.
- Mandatory – Education
- CS degree or equivalent, such as B.Tech / B.E. / B.S.
- Preferred – Technical Skills
- Experience with Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ
- AWS
- Docker / Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Observability and monitoring
- Security and compliance
- Multi-tenant systems
- Financial, billing, or enterprise platforms








