Golang Developer with AWS Expertise Ex capital one

Job Title: Golang Developer with AWS Expertise

C2C/W2

Capital one exp Mandatory

Job ID: 91964-1

Client: Capital One

Location: Remote

Duration: 12+ Months contract with possible extension/conversion

Job Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Golang Developer with strong AWS expertise to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in developing scalable backend systems using Go (Golang), experience in cloud-native architectures, and hands-on skills in deploying and managing applications in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Required Qualifications:

Golang development experience.

Strong understanding of microservices architecture and concurrent programming in Go.

Hands-on experience with AWS cloud platform — particularly with ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and CloudWatch.

Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.

Proficiency with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments.

Familiarity with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS).

Strong knowledge of RESTful API design and development.

Working knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB).

Solid understanding of testing frameworks and code versioning best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.

Exposure to monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or New Relic.

Knowledge of Python or Node.js for scripting or secondary automation.

Job Description:

Design, develop, and deploy backend services and microservices using Golang.

Build high-performance, scalable, and resilient applications hosted in AWS.

Integrate APIs, data sources, and third-party systems using REST or gRPC.

Work with AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, EC2, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, RDS, API Gateway, and SNS/SQS.

Implement CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline.

Develop infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or CloudFormation.

Optimize application performance and reliability through monitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana).

Collaborate with DevOps and front-end teams to ensure seamless system integration.

Write unit, integration, and load tests to maintain code quality and reliability.