Senior Go Engineer

Senior Go Engineer at Ciklum

Ciklum is a custom product engineering company supporting multinational organizations and scaling startups in solving 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 lives.

About the Role

As a Senior Go Engineer, you will join a cross-functional development team engineering the experiences of tomorrow, specifically building AI-powered call center solutions. You will work on data platforms that enable real-time analytics, automation, and smarter customer interactions at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement complex backend features from conception through to deployment, ensuring they meet strategic business objectives.
• Write clean, secure, highly testable, scalable, and well-documented code that adheres to coding standards and best practices.
• Perform comprehensive code reviews to ensure high code quality and facilitate knowledge sharing within the team.
• Actively participate in multiple aspects of the SDLC, including planning, development, testing, and deployment.
• Assist in upholding and enhancing the team's engineering and quality standards, and support the team in adopting these.

Requirements

• In-depth understanding of paradigms and principles such as SOLID and GRASP.
• Proficient in documenting complex software solutions through comprehensive technical documentation and detailed diagrams.
• Extensive expertise in Go and knowledge of essential third-party libraries and tools.
• Deep understanding of Go's core internals, memory management, and concurrency mechanisms.
• Deep understanding of RDBMS and NoSQL systems, experience crafting high-performance queries, executing optimizations, and designing database structures.
• Experience in deploying and managing applications within cloud environments such as AWS.
• Advanced proficiency with Go's built-in testing library and comparable testing frameworks and tools.
• Practical experience in utilizing application deployment patterns and tools.

What's in it for you?

• Care: Your mental and physical health is our priority. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes but is not limited to comprehensive medical coverage, life-insurance, gym membership, fuel, internet, and mobile allowances, and provident fund.
• Tailored education path: Boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy license, language courses, and company-paid certifications.
• Growth environment: Share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally.
• Flexibility: Own your schedule – you are the one to decide when to start your working day. Just don’t miss your regular team stand-up.
• Opportunities: We value our specialists and always find the best options for them. Our Internal Mobility Program helps change a project if needed to help you grow, excel professionally, and fulfill your potential.
• Global impact: Work on large-scale projects that redefine industries with international and fast-growing clients.
• Welcoming environment: Feel empowered with a friendly team, open-door policy, informal atmosphere within the company, and regular team-building events.

About Ciklum

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 over 14 years of presence in Islamabad, our Pakistan team is a trusted force in redefining industries. We value every voice and invite experienced professionals to help shape tomorrow’s digital experiences. Want to learn more about us? Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn. 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.

Key skills/competency

• Go Programming
• Backend Development
• Cloud Computing (AWS)
• System Design
• Database Management (RDBMS/NoSQL)
• Concurrency
• API Design
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Code Review
• Scalability