Senior Go Engineer

Senior Go Software Engineer Contract (W2) Location: Remote (must be within 70 miles of Allen, TX, Birmingham, AL, Cedar Falls, IA, Charlotte, NC, Lenexa, KS, Louisville, KY, Monett, MO, or Springfield, MO) Work Arrangement: Fully Remote with up to 5% travel for meetings, training, and professional conferences. Working hours are 40 hours per week, flexible with overlap in the Central time zone. About the Role As part of the Platform Delivery team, you will be at the center of a major Technology Modernization Strategy. In your daily activities as a Senior Go Software Engineer, you will work on a development team creating new banking applications and shared platform services using an innovative technology stack. This includes working within a microservices architecture and building solutions for core FinTech services such as ACH, Wire Transfers, and Positive Pay. You'll collaborate daily with Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Product Owners, and Business Analysts across the organization, leveraging modern development practices and tools—such as container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, cloud providers like GCP or AWS, observability and monitoring solutions like Datadog or Honeycomb, progressive delivery tools like Argo, and feature flag systems like LaunchDarkly. What You'll Be Responsible For • Building, testing, deploying, maintaining, and scaling backend services in a microservices architecture using the Go programming language in an agile development environment running and leveraging services on a major cloud platform. • Working collaboratively to identify needs, prioritize and plan work, and develop solutions that keep pace with product development. • Gaining a deep and comprehensive understanding of specific banking-related domains your team owns and working with and understanding how changes in those domains impact products. • Participating with customer support teams to resolve or diagnose defects and issues. • Continually growing your technical skill set. Required Experience/Skills Minimum 6 years of programming experience, with a minimum of: • 2 years of back-end programming/development experience • 2 years of programming experience with Go/Golang Capable of leading technical efforts of larger products, including planning and communication, breaking down work into smaller units, and tracking work across the team. Able to apply knowledge of observability, scale, and performance in software development. Experience debugging issues in production, identifying customer issues, or resolving problems with a release pipeline or deployment. Nice-to-Haves • Experience in Financial Technology (FinTech). This team works on ACH, Wire Transfers, and Positive Pay. • Experience working in a microservices architecture. • Experience with any or all of the following: continuous integration pipelines, observability, monitoring, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure). • Self-motivation and the ability to work independently. • A sense of ownership of your deliverables, from working with product managers to define the scope, all the way through supporting your work in production. We take pride in the quality software we write as a team and want to work with someone who has the same level of care. Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science is desired but not required. Pay & Benefits Summary $60-75/hour W2 Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance 401K savings vehicle Apply Now! Must complete coding assessment for submittal. Keywords: Go, Golang, Backend Developer, Microservices, Kubernetes, Cloud Computing, FinTech, Financial Technology, ACH, Wire Transfer, DevOps, Agile, GCP, AWS, Docker, Remote Software Engineer