Senior Go Engineer

About the Position

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Go Engineer to join our team full-time in the Czech Republic. We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts, and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

We are looking for a Senior Go Engineer to be part of our engineering team. Our mission is to help people save money on the prescription drugs they need to get healthy lives and make healthcare more accessible and affordable. As a Senior Go Developer, you will be responsible for development and maintenance of tools, backend services, and APIs that power our onboarding flows and internal systems. In this role, you will be involved in the design, implementation, deployment, and operations of new or existing tools, services, and APIs needed to support new product functionality. You’ll also be collaborating with other engineering teams. The ideal candidate will be able to quickly turn ideas into production-ready solutions in a fast-paced and friendly environment. You should also be comfortable learning new technologies as needed.

Responsibilities

• Be a team player, mentor, teach, collaborate, and learn from those around you
• Design, implement, and maintain highly scalable and performant services
• Continually improve the codebase and test coverage through refactoring, unit testing, system testing, automating deployment, and operations
• Maintain an understanding of the business requirements and work closely with stakeholders to understand what they need and why
• Make smart engineering and product decisions based on data analysis and collaboration
• Help improve engineering standards and processes
• Bring an agile, iterative, and curious mindset to every challenge
• Be a subject matter expert who others both in your squad and beyond will turn to

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience working as an engineer
• Significant experience designing, building, deploying, operating, and maintaining cloud-based web services and microservices (AWS experience preferred)
• Extensive experience with Go
• Well build TypeScript and Kafka knowledge
• Strong experience with relational and non-relational database technologies
• Experience with containers, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Hands-on exposure with serverless technologies (Lambdas)
• Experience with log shipping, distributed tracing tools, and service monitoring systems (Datadog, Sumo Logic, Cloudwatch, Sentry, etc…)
• Knowledge of front-end development (React or other) is beneficial
• Knowledge of JavaScript/Typescript and GraphQL is beneficial
• Proven debugging/troubleshooting skills
• Deep understanding and knowledge of component-level and application-level design patterns
• Several years of experience with agile methodologies and rapid iteration cycles
• Habits which exhibit the best practices of agile quality and testing methods (TDD, BDD, Unit Testing and Automation, iterative development)
• Ability to deal with ambiguous and complex project requirements
• Effective verbal and written communicator
• Strong Linux fundamentals

We Offer

• Flexible working hours
• Home office option
• 5 weeks of holiday
• 5 sick days
• Multisport Card
• Meal allowance
• Internal trainings including workshops and seminars
• Paid certifications and technical as well as soft-skills training
• Possibility to participate in international conferences
• Fresh fruit, coffee, and a weekly company breakfast in the office
• Loyalty bonus after 5, 10, 15, and more years with the company
• Referral bonus programme
• Corporate events including team building, outdoor activities, Christmas party, health week, summer ice cream, and more
• Hybrid and remote working options available across our Czech offices in Prague, Hradec Králové, and Zlín

About the Company

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

With delivery centers in Prague, Hradec Králové, and Zlín, our Czech team delivers end-to-end solutions across industries. Here, innovation thrives through collaboration, and every idea drives our partners' success.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.