Go Lang developer

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Position Description:

Company Profile:
Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 94,000 consultants and professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2024 reported revenue is CA$14.68 billion and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at cgi.com.
Job Title: Go Lang Developer
Position: SSE/ LA
Experience: 5-7 Years
Category: Software development / Engineering
Shift: General Shift
Main location: Bangalore/Hyderabad/Chennai/Pune/Mumbai
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Employment Type: Full Time
Education Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or higher with minimum 3 years of relevant experience.

Position Description: We are looking for an experienced Go Lang Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate should be passionate about coding and developing scalable and high-performance applications. You will work closely with our back-end developers, designers, and other members of the team to deliver quality solutions that meet the needs of our clients.
Responsibilities:
• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services and microservices using Go (Golang).
• Build and optimize REST APIs, WebSocket-based real-time systems, and gRPC services for scalable distributed applications.
• Develop resilient, fault-tolerant services with robust error handling, logging, observability, and retry mechanisms.
• Design and implement event-driven architectures using NATS and Kafka.
• Create efficient data access layers, schema designs, and query strategies for PostgreSQL and Cassandra.
• Implement advanced caching strategies using Redis to improve application performance and reduce latency.
• Build secure authentication and authorization mechanisms for internal and external APIs.
• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Work with AWS and Azure services to build and maintain cloud-native applications.
• Collaborate closely with frontend, DevOps, QA, and product teams to deliver reliable and scalable solutions.
• Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, technical standards, and engineering best practices.
Must-Have Skills:
Golang Expertise
• Strong understanding of Go language internals and runtime behaviour
• Advanced experience with:
o concurrency patterns
o goroutines and channels
o synchronization primitives
o context propagation and cancellation
o memory management and garbage collection
o profiling tools such as pprof and benchmarking techniques
• Databases and Caching
• Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL
• Experience with Cassandra or other NoSQL databases
• Strong understanding of database schema design, indexing, query optimization, and performance tuning
• Experience implementing caching strategies using Redis
• Messaging and Event Streaming
• Hands-on experience with message brokers / event streaming platforms such as:
o NATS
o Kafka
• Good understanding of asynchronous communication, consumer groups, event ordering, retries, and failure handling
• Cloud, Containers, and DevOps
• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience deploying and managing services on AWS and/or Azure
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices
• Strong knowledge of Git-based workflows and release processes
Good-to-Have Skills:
• Familiarity in using AI tools like GitHub CO-Pilot and Codex
• Exposure to service mesh, API gateways, and cloud-native observability tools
• Experience with distributed tracing, metrics, and centralized logging
• Knowledge of security best practices for APIs and distributed systems
• Contributions to open-source projects or technical communities
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

CGI is an equal opportunity employer. In addition, CGI is committed to providing accommodation for people with disabilities in accordance with provincial legislation. Please let us know if you require reasonable accommodation due to a disability during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.

Skills:

·  GIT
·  GIT
·  Go
·  RESTful (Rest-APIs)

What you can expect from us:

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Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

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