Engineering
Backend Engineer (Go)
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Hybrid Full-time · Mid-Senior (3+ years) $2,500–$4,000/mo
About the Role
High-throughput backend services in Go for a US logistics client processing millions of events per day. You will work on real-time tracking APIs, event-driven microservices, and data pipeline components, all at meaningful production scale.
The stack is Go + PostgreSQL + Kafka + Kubernetes. You ship into a GitOps-managed AWS environment with full observability via Datadog.
Requirements
- 3+ years of production Go development
- Strong understanding of concurrency, goroutines, and channels
- Experience designing RESTful or gRPC APIs
- PostgreSQL proficiency: query optimisation, schema design
- Familiarity with event streaming (Kafka or equivalent)
- Docker and Kubernetes fundamentals
Nice to Have
- Experience with distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry)
- Background in logistics or IoT data pipelines
- Open-source Go contributions
Benefits
- Competitive salary: reviewed annually
- Premium healthcare
- 13th month salary + bonus
- Annual $1,000 learning budget
- Hybrid model