Senior Golang Engineer

Our client is a European insurtech company providing digital insurance solutions and embedded protection products, enabling seamless integration of insurance offerings into e-commerce and financial platforms across multiple markets.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance services: Design, develop, and maintain scalable APIs (gRPC and REST) powering core insurance services, taking ownership of complex services and their evolution.
• Own delivery at system level: Lead microservices and larger system components end-to-end — from requirements and architecture through implementation, deployment, and operational ownership in production.
• Contribute to technical direction: Provide input on technology choices, design patterns, and service boundaries; participate in architecture discussions led by Tech Leads and Architects.
• Mentor and elevate the team: Coach mid-level and junior engineers through design reviews, pairing, and constructive code reviews; raise the engineering bar across the team.
• Champion engineering excellence: Establish and enforce best practices in automated testing, observability (tracing, logging, metrics), CI/CD, and operational readiness.
• Lead in production: Act as a senior escalation point for complex incidents; drive root-cause analysis, reliability improvements, and cost/performance optimization.
• Ensure compliance and security: Embed security policies, coding standards, and regulatory requirements of the financial and insurance sector into design decisions from the start.

Must Have

• 8+ years of backend development experience, with 5+ years working with Golang in production
• Proven track record designing and evolving gRPC and REST-based APIs at scale, including ownership of complex service-level design decisions
• Expert-level understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, event-driven design, and cloud-native patterns
• Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and modern DevOps workflows, including production troubleshooting at scale
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL (data modeling, performance tuning) and message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and driving adoption of engineering best practices across a team
• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for building clean, efficient, and maintainable systems
• Regular use of AI tools to improve productivity, automate or reduce repetitive work, support decision-making, and deliver higher-quality outcomes
• Ability to use AI tools responsibly by structuring effective prompts, critically validating outputs, understanding limitations, and taking ownership of the final result — and to guide others in doing the same
• Excellent English communication skills, including the ability to communicate design decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment

Nice to Have

• Experience in the insurance, fintech, or broader financial services domain
• Deep familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger)
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), ideally including cost optimization
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Helm)
• Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams or contributing to platform-level decisions
• German language skills are a plus

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