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# Senior Back-End Software Engineer (Golang)

- **Company:** ROBERTS RECRUITING, LLC
- **Location:** Boston, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Advanced Message Queuing Protocol, Apache HTTP Server, HTML5, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Ubuntu (Operating System), Debian Linux, Linux, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Apache Hadoop, Apache HBase, Internet Services, JSON, Memcached, Enterprise Messaging Systems, MongoDB, MySQL, Nginx, Systems Development Life Cycle, RabbitMQ, Ruby on Rails, Redis, Akamai, Linux Containers, Ruby, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, TCP/IP, Web Services, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Enterprise Software Applications, Computer Network Operations, Apache Cassandra, System Availability, Caching, Backend, Amazon Relational Database Service, Cassandra, Puppet, Objective C++, Golang, Programming Languages, Microservices
- **Published:** November 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-back-end-software-engineer-golang-boston-ma--f0fa7895-24a9-4fe9-9632-5a15dbf80842

## About the Role

Software Engineering, Go Programming Language (Golang), Scalable System Development, Apache Cassandra, Network Operations Center, Large-Scale Systems, Emerging Technology, Web Services, Ruby on Rails, Agile Programming Methodologies, We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in the challenge of pushing high-volume consumer and business platforms to their next level. We are looking for an individual with a strong background in designing and developing scalable web services and micro-service, who has experience designing and implementing features for large-scale systems used by millions of mobile users per day, and who has significant experience with high volume internet services. Candidate must be familiar with current scalable multi-datacenter distributed computing technologies on commodity servers and micro-services. Our current infrastructure uses the latest technologies: Linux, AWS, Cassandra, MySQL, AMQP, Redis, Ruby on Rails and Go. We use an agile development process.

## Description

* Design and implement high availability services and micro-services that scale to millions and millions of requests per day.
 * Develop core platform services and back-end APIs.
 * Strong interest in developing quality infrastructure and process.
 * Create speed, improve performance and maintain stability within the development life cycle.
 * Be a team player with a winning attitude.

Requirements

 * Go, C/C++, Swift or Objective-C
 * Experience developing and maintaining high volume/high performance distributed applications.
 * TCP/IP, Sockets, Messaging Systems (AMQP or others)
 * Linux, Ubuntu/Debian, VMs Apache, Nginx, Thin, RabbitMQ AWS, EC2, S3, RDS, RDS, Mysql, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis, Hadoop, HBase, Memcache

Desired Experience:

 * Ruby/Rails, Java/C# and Enterprise systems experience.
 * JavaScript, HTML5, JSON, XML, etc.
 * Working closely with dev-ops, knowledge of puppet, linux containers, software deployment, monitoring, failover.
 * Caching services such as CloudFront/CDNs, Akamai, etc.