Senior Golang Microservices Engineer

Project overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineer to strengthen an established development team in the pharmaceutical industry. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain a complex, distributed microservices platform in Go.

As a Senior-Level Engineer, you will be responsible for the end-to-end development of services – from architecture and performance optimization to production monitoring. You will actively contribute to the team's technical direction, increase code quality, and support other developers through mentoring and code reviews.

Your expertise includes:

This position offers 100% remote work and is limited to 6 months (extendable). The contract is structured as a freelance engagement. Ideal for Senior Engineers who want to work in established teams and value technical excellence and collaboration.

• Extensive commercial experience with productive Go systems
• In-depth knowledge in design, development, and maintenance of complex microservices and distributed architectures
• Strong practices in unit and integration tests with proven experience in performance optimization, troubleshooting, and service scaling
• Familiarity with code quality and observability tools such as SonarQube, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry (monitoring, logging, tracing)
• Ability to clearly and detailedly explain technical decisions

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Duration: 6 months
• Remote: onsite
• Location: DE
• Languages: German