MateHR

Senior Golang Engineer

Latvia full-time Senior $70,000 - $110,000
full-time Senior level Technology & IT Salary listed Curated
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Job Description
Job Title: Senior Golang Engineer
About the Opportunity:
MateHR is currently seeking a highly experienced Backend Engineer on behalf of one of our most ambitious clients rapidly scaling fintech startup that's reshaping global transaction services and B2C Financing. This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-scaling company with a cross-continent presence. You'll become part of a passionate, collaborative team committed to delivering impactful financial solutions.
Role Overview:
As a Senior Golang Developer, you will play a key role in expanding the company's global remittance and payout capabilities. You'll design and build backend services that integrate new payout partners, support additional currencies, and abstract complex banking and payment flows into simple, reliable APIs.
This role goes beyond API integrations—you will help architect the core layers that normalize fragmented global financial systems, ensuring transactions are consistent, secure, and scalable regardless of destination.
Your Impact:
Backend Engineering & Architecture

Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Golang

Build clean, well-structured RESTful APIs that support high-volume financial transactions

Apply Domain-Driven Design and modular architecture principles

Ensure strong data consistency, security, and privacy across all systems

Write high-quality, maintainable, production-grade code with strong test coverage

Contribute to technical documentation and architectural decision-making

Reliability & Operations:

Own features end-to-end, from design through deployment and post-release support

Implement gradual rollout strategies (feature flags, traffic ramp-ups, blue/green deployments)

Define and monitor SLAs/SLOs using metrics, logging, and tracing

Participate in an on-call rotation following a you build it, you run it model

Collaboration & Ownership:

Work closely with Product, QA, and other engineering teams

Support compliant financial solutions aligned with regulatory and customer requirements

Take initiative, make decisions within your domain, and drive improvements proactively

Your Background:
Technical Skills

5+ years of backend development experience, with strong hands-on experience in Golang

Proven experience building and operating scalable backend systems

Solid knowledge of PostgreSQL (schema evolution, transaction isolation, query optimization)

Experience with Redis and common caching patterns

Strong understanding of asynchronous processing (Kafka, message queues, event-driven systems, goroutines)

Experience working with observability stacks (logging, metrics, distributed tracing)

Proficiency with Docker and containerized environments

Strong understanding of RESTful API design principles

Soft Skills & Mindset

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with attention to detail

High sense of ownership and accountability

Clear communicator who collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams

Curious, growth-oriented mindset with openness to feedback

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience setting up or maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions)

Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated environments

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Why Join:

Work on mission-critical fintech systems with real global impact

High ownership and autonomy in technical decision-making

Exposure to complex, real-world financial infrastructure challenges

Opportunity to grow with a fast-scaling, international product

70 000 EUR - 110 000 EUR (Annual)
If you are passionate about backend engineering excellence and eager to contribute to a thriving fintech leader, MateHR welcomes your application.
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Technology & IT API integration MySQL Operations Writing Senior level full-time

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  1. Tell us about work you have done that is close to the Senior Golang Engineer role.
  2. How would you approach your first 30 days at MateHR?
  3. Which of API integration, MySQL and Operations have you used recently, and what did it help you achieve?
  4. How have you led people, improved a process, or made a hard decision in a previous role?
  5. How do you handle busy days, changing priorities, or pressure at work?

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I am interested in the Senior Golang Engineer role because I can bring practical experience in API integration, MySQL and Operations, learn the team quickly, and contribute to the outcomes MateHR needs from this hire.

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