Looking for a
Golang Backend Engineer
serving Remote Teams?
Developing high-concurrency microservices and backend systems with Go. Focused on throughput, reliability, and efficient resource usage — for when Node.js or PHP starts hitting its limits.
I've worked remotely since 2021, independently and as part of a NY-based product team, with clients in Armenia, Russia, Europe and the US. The way I work is the same wherever you are: a written spec approved before work starts, written progress updates and short Loom walkthroughs as I go, all code in your Git repository with a clear history, and one person — me — from start to finish. No calls are required; if you prefer a short intro call before we start, that's fine too. Yerevan is GMT+4, so European teams get updates at the start of their day and US East Coast teams have a few hours of overlap.
Service Profile
Availability
Async by default, with working-day overlap for Europe and the US East Coast.
Timezone
GMT+4, async-first Support
Response time
Within 24 business hours
Technical Expertise
Why Hire Me
Go is my language of choice when a service needs to handle thousands of simultaneous connections without eating RAM or pegging CPU. I use it for real-time data feeds, internal microservices, and any backend where a Node.js process would buckle under load. I've built real-time price-feed services that stream from five exchanges at once with sub-100ms latency and Redis as a fallback layer, and Go is what I reach for when that kind of service has to scale further. Go's concurrency model — goroutines and channels — makes problems like fan-out, rate limiting, and graceful shutdown easier to reason about than in most other languages. I also use Go for CLI tooling: deployment scripts, data migration utilities, and internal admin tools that need to be fast and have zero runtime dependencies. On the deployment side, Go compiles to a single static binary that fits in a minimal Docker image (often under 20 MB), which makes container orchestration significantly cheaper.
Relevant Case Studies
Common Questions
What types of projects benefit most from Go?
APIs that need to handle bursts of concurrent requests, data ingestion pipelines, background processing services, CLI tooling, and any service where memory footprint or startup time matters. If your Node.js service is hitting CPU or memory limits under load, Go is usually a straightforward rewrite with a significant performance gain — often 5–10× on throughput.
Do you use Go for full-stack projects or only backend?
Primarily backend. Go pairs well with a Next.js or React frontend. I expose Go services via REST or gRPC and consume them from the frontend or from a Laravel/Node orchestration layer. For most product teams, the right architecture is Go for performance-critical services and a higher-level language for the application layer.
Can you containerize and deploy Go services?
Yes. Go binaries compile to a single small binary that fits in a minimal Docker image, often under 20 MB. I set up multi-stage Dockerfiles, docker-compose for local development, and CI/CD pipelines that build, test, and push images on merge. I have also deployed Go services to Kubernetes with horizontal pod autoscaling for traffic spikes.
Ready to start your Golang Backend Engineer project?
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