Senior Golang Developer - AI, Gaming, Real-time Systems

Location: Remote, APAC preferred

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Golang Developer to build scalable, reliable, and high-performance backend systems for AI, gaming, and real-time products.

This role is suitable for either a strong Golang backend engineer with 3+ years of experience or a more senior engineer with system architecture, technical leadership, and end-to-end ownership experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services using Golang.
• Develop distributed, high-concurrency, and low-latency systems.
• Build APIs, microservices, asynchronous workflows, and event-driven services.
• Work with SQL/NoSQL databases, caches, and messaging systems.
• Improve system performance, scalability, reliability, and observability.
• Troubleshoot production issues across services, databases, and infrastructure.
• Participate in system design, architecture discussions, and technical planning.
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable production code.
• Take ownership of features from requirements through production release.
• Conduct code reviews and support engineering best practices.

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• For senior candidates, mentor engineers and lead technical projects.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience building backend systems with Golang.
• Strong understanding of Go concurrency, including goroutines, channels, synchronization, and performance optimization.
• Experience designing APIs, microservices, or distributed backend systems.
• Solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and system design.
• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or Redis.
• Familiarity with Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, or similar messaging technologies.
• Understanding of distributed system patterns such as retries, timeouts, rate limiting, circuit breaking, fault tolerance, and data consistency.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and production monitoring.
• Strong ownership, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Professional working proficiency in English.

Nice to Have

• Experience with gaming, real-time platforms, payments, trading, logistics, IoT, or other high-concurrency systems.

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• Experience with WebSocket, gRPC, streaming, or event-driven architecture.
• Strong database modeling and performance-tuning experience.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or other cloud platforms.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Elasticsearch, or similar observability tools.
• Experience using Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, MCP, or other AI-assisted development tools.
• Technical leadership, mentoring, or architecture ownership experience.
• Mandarin communication ability.

What We Offer

• Fully remote work
• Flexible, async-first working environment
• Competitive salary paid in USD
• Quarterly performance bonus
• 4–5 weeks of paid annual leave plus local public holidays
• Equipment and learning allowances
• High ownership with low bureaucracy
• Opportunities to work on AI, gaming, and real-time distributed systems