Golang Developer - Core Infrastructure

Wobot AI is seeking a talented Golang Developer to design, build, and maintain the fundamental infrastructure that drives our platform's real-time communication and distributed connectivity. You will be instrumental in ensuring the reliable and scalable communication between our services and clients.

Responsibilities:

• Architect Scalable Services: Develop and maintain high-performance backend services, with a strong focus on connection management and robust data transfer layers.
• Manage Real-Time Systems: Own and operate systems leveraging WebSockets to manage persistent connections across a distributed client base.
• Handle Connection Lifecycles: Design and implement comprehensive logic for client registration, authentication, heartbeat mechanisms, and graceful connection termination.
• Ship Fault-Tolerant Code: Apply production-grade patterns such as circuit breakers, sophisticated retry logic, and graceful shutdowns to guarantee high availability.
• Performance Engineering: Optimize memory usage, connection pooling, and resource allocation to effectively support high-concurrency environments.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison for core infrastructure, offering essential support to internal teams to facilitate seamless integration.
• Product & Dev-Cycle Improvement: Actively contribute to feedback loops with Product teams, identifying operational friction and proposing technical enhancements to accelerate development cycles.
• Observability & Health: Implement comprehensive instrumentation for services, including metrics, logging, and tracing, to ensure infrastructure transparency and ease of debugging.
• Collaborative Design: Partner closely with DevOps and Product teams to define clear API contracts and robust deployment strategies for microservices.

Qualifications:

• Go Expertise: Minimum of 12+ years of professional experience in developing backend services or infrastructure using Golang.
• Concurrency Mastery: Profound understanding of goroutines, channels, and synchronization primitives, with a demonstrated ability to use them safely and effectively.
• Networking Fundamentals: Proven experience with WebSockets or TCP/IP; gRPC experience is considered a significant advantage. A deep understanding of the challenges associated with maintaining long-lived persistent connections is crucial.
• Clean Architecture: A strong advocate for modular design, establishing clear boundaries, and writing highly testable and maintainable code.
• Production Experience: Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot issues across distributed logs and metrics; comfortable and adept at debugging live systems.

About Wobot AI:

Wobot AI is committed to fostering an environment of open discussion, ownership, and a founder mindset. We prioritize excellent design, intuitive UI/UX, thorough documentation, efficient to-do list management, and data-driven decision-making. Our team collaborates using Microsoft Teams for daily communication and meetings. We believe in employee well-being and engagement through bi-weekly town halls, destressing sessions with a certified healer, and enjoyable company retreats held twice a year. We offer a fully remote work environment, comprehensive health insurance, competitive equity options for high performers, mental health consultations, company-sponsored upskilling courses, dedicated growth hours, 40 hours annually for community involvement, and access to a financial advisor. Wobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer.