Senior Software Engineer (Golang) - Ride-Hailing Platform

About the role

Snapp is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer in Golang for its ride-hailing platform in Tehran. You will design and maintain high-performance backend services, work on cloud-native distributed systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to architectural decisions. You will also mentor team members and help define engineering best practices.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain backend services in Golang, focusing on performance, scalability and reliability
• Design and implement distributed and event-driven systems
• Develop and maintain monitoring and observability systems
• Use Redis and RabbitMQ/NATS for high-performance distributed systems
• Deploy, manage and scale services on Kubernetes / OpenShift
• Identify and resolve performance issues, errors and scalability challenges
• Contribute to architecture design, development standards and best coding practices

Required profile

• At least 5+ years of backend development experience, preferably with Golang
• Strong expertise in designing and developing high-performance, scalable distributed systems
• Experience with asynchronous mechanisms such as RabbitMQ, NATS and Kafka
• Experience with synchronous mechanisms such as gRPC and RESTful APIs
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes / OpenShift and containerized environments
• Ability to design and maintain robust, fault-tolerant and reliable systems
• Strong teamwork, ownership and work ethic

Nice to have

• Experience with microservices architecture and event-driven systems
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana