Bonapolia
Bonapolia
11 – 50 Employees
ConsultingLogisticsMarketing
Bonapolia is a recruitment and talent-matching firm that connects candidates with technology and engineering opportunities through a candidate-focused process and close partnerships with hiring clients. Its largely remote, global job marketplace supports job seekers with career guidance, interview coordination, and relocation assistance, including pathways to Portugal. The company combines boutique recruitment services with scalable talent delivery, employee training support, and a streamlined application and connection process.

Senior Go Backend Engineer - Portugal Remote

Build and operate scalable Go backend services for a ride-hailing passenger platform. Lead architecture, observability, production delivery, and engineering mentorship.

Description

  • Build and maintain reliable, scalable backend services that support business requirements
  • Research technical approaches and lead backend architecture and feature implementation
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive, effective solutions
  • Contribute to code reviews and architecture discussions
  • Improve the technical quality of backend services across the team
  • Produce clean, maintainable code aligned with company standards
  • Manage backend service delivery, monitoring, and production operations throughout the lifecycle
  • Implement and maintain observability systems covering metrics, logs, dashboards, and distributed tracing
  • Mentor engineers and promote strong engineering practices and quality standards
  • Contribute to the complete passenger experience for a ride-hailing application
  • Complete the English assessment, internal technical interview, client interview, and client cultural-fit interview stages

Requirements

  • Intermediate English proficiency
  • Location in the EU, Georgia, Armenia, Serbia, or Kazakhstan
  • Availability to work in the CET time zone
  • At least five years of commercial backend engineering experience in production environments
  • Advanced Go experience covering concurrency, synchronization primitives, context propagation, goroutine lifecycle management, and graceful shutdown
  • Experience developing and operating high-load distributed systems
  • Recent product development experience with complex business logic and changing requirements
  • Strong SQL and data modelling capabilities, including schema design, joins, aggregations, composite indexes, data type selection, query analysis, replication, partitioning, and sharding
  • Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL
  • Strong knowledge of caching approaches, including Redis, cache-aside, cache warm-up, and background refresh
  • Experience with synchronous and asynchronous service communication using gRPC and message brokers, including delivery guarantees, idempotency, and load-balancing trade-offs
  • Deep knowledge of microservice architecture and efficient client-server communication, including relevant trade-offs and limitations
  • Practical experience with observability, including metrics, logging, distributed tracing, alerting, and Go profiling with pprof
  • Understanding of non-functional requirements, SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms
  • Ability to produce maintainable, testable code with strong unit and integration test coverage
  • Proficiency with Git and modern code review practices
  • Ability to explain project architecture at the appropriate level of detail
  • Ability to turn ambiguous problems into solutions independently by clarifying requirements and workload
  • Nice to have: experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ
  • Nice to have: familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools
  • Nice to have: experience profiling and optimising Go performance with pprof and trace
  • Nice to have: familiarity with design handoff tools and cross-platform collaboration workflows
  • Nice to have: experience with AI-assisted development tools

Benefits

  • B2B contract with Bonapolia
  • Monthly invoicing and payment, generally following the client's payment schedule to Bonapolia, typically 30 days
  • Contract governed by the laws of the candidate's country
  • Bonapolia manages client-side documentation, including the MSA, NDA, and invoicing

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