Top Senior Golang Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead a portfolio of backend engineering projects and a development team to design, build, and operate distributed microservices and cloud-native solutions (Java, Go, Python). Mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, ensure regulatory-compliant systems, and occasionally code or evaluate implementations.

Senior Software Engineer responsible for developing and maintaining web applications and microservices (React, Golang). Mentor team members, lead code reviews, influence technical decisions, improve CI/CD and testing strategies (unit, E2E, performance), collaborate across teams on integrations, and promote engineering best practices and documentation.

Build and maintain high-performance, low-latency cloud-native microservices in Go for identity resolution and audience targeting. Own features end-to-end, optimize query and data-access paths (Aerospike, Kafka, Snowflake, S3), ensure reliability with observability and CI/CD, troubleshoot production incidents, enforce data quality, and collaborate with product, SRE, QA, and data teams to evolve identity and audience-domain architecture.

Design and implement scalable Golang backend services; collaborate with frontend and DevOps; optimize performance and scalability; write clean, test-driven code; work with PostgreSQL and MongoDB; participate across the software development lifecycle; ensure cloud-based availability and security.

Design, build, and optimize scalable backend services in Golang. Collaborate with frontend and DevOps teams, implement TDD, work with PostgreSQL and MongoDB, ensure high availability and security in cloud environments, and participate in the full software development lifecycle.

Design, build, and optimize high-throughput, highly available backend services in Golang for 24/7 sports and prediction-market applications. Lead architecture decisions, implement features, diagnose and resolve high-concurrency bottlenecks, and provide high-tier operational support for real-time transactional systems.

Senior Go developer to build data aggregation and transformation systems, automated trading solutions, and service APIs. Design and implement highly loaded, fault-tolerant distributed systems using concurrency, synchronization, unit testing and mocking, performance metrics and tuning. Work with network/file streams, SQL/NoSQL and key-value stores, message brokers, and containerized deployments.

Lead the backend team, setting technical direction for a scalable platform, designing distributed systems in Golang, and mentoring engineers.

The Senior Software Engineer will modernize USPS shipping technology, refactor legacy systems for cloud integration, and develop high-performance services using Go, while collaborating with teams and addressing production challenges.