Senior Software Engineer

ASTEK has been providing IT and Engineering solutions for some of the world's largest industrial and services groups for more than 35 years with 10,000 passionate experts in 22 countries throughout Europe, APAC, Middle East and the Americas

Senior Golang Backend Engineer – EV Charging Platform

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on

Senior Golang Backend Engineer

to develop, enhance, and support a cloud-native

EV Charging platform

. The role focuses on building scalable backend services, distributed systems, and event-driven workflows while ensuring high availability and production stability.

You will work closely with technical leads, product, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to deliver reliable backend solutions and integrations.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain

backend services, RESTful APIs, and microservices using Golang

.

Build scalable

event-driven and asynchronous workflows

for distributed systems.

Improve application

performance, scalability, reliability, and availability

.

Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, performing root cause analysis where required.

Work with

PostgreSQL

, including SQL queries, indexing, and performance optimisation.

Develop and maintain integrations with external platforms and third-party systems.

Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams on

cloud deployments, monitoring, and operational readiness

.

Participate in code reviews and ensure code quality, maintainability, and engineering best practices.

Take ownership of assigned features and technical deliverables from development through production.

Must-Have Requirements

Strong hands-on experience developing production applications using

Golang (Go)

.

Experience designing and developing

RESTful APIs and microservices

.

Good understanding of

concurrency, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems

.

Strong

SQL

skills with experience in

PostgreSQL or similar relational databases

.

Experience with event-streaming technologies such as

Kafka

.

Hands-on experience troubleshooting and supporting

production systems

.

Experience with cloud-native environments using

AWS or Azure

.

Experience with

Docker and Kubernetes

.

Experience working with

distributed, real-time, or high-traffic systems

.

Good to Have

Beginner to intermediate knowledge of

Java

.

Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as

Datadog or Sentry

.

Exposure to

Terraform

or other Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools.

Experience within

EV charging, mobility, IoT, or device-integrated platforms

.

Knowledge of EV charging protocols such as

OCPI and OCPP

.

Experience developing

real-time and device-integrated systems

.

Key Technologies

Golang | REST APIs | Microservices | PostgreSQL | Kafka | AWS/Azure | Docker | Kubernetes | Terraform | Datadog | Sentry | Java | OCPI | OCPP