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Go Backend Engineer
2026-01-13T08:39:19+00:00
AA Kenya
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FULL_TIME
 
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
Kenya
Insurance
Computer & IT, Science & Engineering
KES
 
MONTH
2026-01-18T17:00:00+00:00
 
 
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We are looking for a talented Go (Golang) Developer to design, build, and maintain high-performance, scalable microservices that power our customer-facing and internal systems. The job holder will be working in a modern, cloud-native environment on a microservices architecture built primarily in Go, running on Kubernetes (AWS/EKS or GCP).

Key Responsibilities.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable and resilient microservices in Go

Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code (we love idiomatic Go!)

Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, DevOps, and other backend teams

Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews

Optimize performance, latency, and cost of services

Integrate with third-party APIs (payments, SMS, mapping, insurance providers, etc.)

Help evolve our CI/CD pipelines and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry)

Tech Stack You’ll Work With

Backend: Go (1.22+), gRPC, REST, Gin

Data: PostgreSQL, Redis

Infrastructure: Docker, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD

Message brokers: RabbitMq

Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger

Minimum job requirements:

For appointment to this position, one must possess:

3 plus years of backend development experience.

2 plus years of professional experience with Go in production systems (please share your GitHub or public projects if possible)

Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST/gRPC APIs, and distributed systems

Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and caching (Redis)

Comfortable with Git, Docker, and CI/CD workflows

Good knowledge of software engineering best practices (testing, code reviews, documentation)

Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable and resilient microservices in Go
  • Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code (we love idiomatic Go!)
  • Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, DevOps, and other backend teams
  • Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews
  • Optimize performance, latency, and cost of services
  • Integrate with third-party APIs (payments, SMS, mapping, insurance providers, etc.)
  • Help evolve our CI/CD pipelines and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry)
  • Go (Golang)
  • gRPC
  • REST
  • Gin
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • ArgoCD
  • RabbitMq
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Loki
  • Jaeger
  • Microservices architecture
  • Distributed systems
  • Git
  • CI/CD workflows
  • Software engineering best practices (testing, code reviews, documentation)
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Attention to detail
  • 3 plus years of backend development experience.
  • 2 plus years of professional experience with Go in production systems (please share your GitHub or public projects if possible)
  • Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST/gRPC APIs, and distributed systems
  • Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and caching (Redis)
  • Comfortable with Git, Docker, and CI/CD workflows
  • Good knowledge of software engineering best practices (testing, code reviews, documentation)
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
bachelor degree
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JOB-696604b7bb182

Vacancy title:
Go Backend Engineer

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Insurance, Category: Computer & IT, Science & Engineering]

Jobs at:
AA Kenya

Deadline of this Job:
Sunday, January 18 2026

Duty Station:
Nairobi | Nairobi

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, January 13 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

We are looking for a talented Go (Golang) Developer to design, build, and maintain high-performance, scalable microservices that power our customer-facing and internal systems. The job holder will be working in a modern, cloud-native environment on a microservices architecture built primarily in Go, running on Kubernetes (AWS/EKS or GCP).

Key Responsibilities.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable and resilient microservices in Go

Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code (we love idiomatic Go!)

Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, DevOps, and other backend teams

Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews

Optimize performance, latency, and cost of services

Integrate with third-party APIs (payments, SMS, mapping, insurance providers, etc.)

Help evolve our CI/CD pipelines and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry)

Tech Stack You’ll Work With

Backend: Go (1.22+), gRPC, REST, Gin

Data: PostgreSQL, Redis

Infrastructure: Docker, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD

Message brokers: RabbitMq

Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger

Minimum job requirements:

For appointment to this position, one must possess:

3 plus years of backend development experience.

2 plus years of professional experience with Go in production systems (please share your GitHub or public projects if possible)

Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST/gRPC APIs, and distributed systems

Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and caching (Redis)

Comfortable with Git, Docker, and CI/CD workflows

Good knowledge of software engineering best practices (testing, code reviews, documentation)

Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

 

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Engineering jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Sunday, January 18 2026
Duty Station: Nairobi | Nairobi
Posted: 13-01-2026
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 13-01-2026
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 10-10-2076
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