HCLTech · 2 hours ago
Back End Developer
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$118K/yr - $180K/yr
7+ years expHCLTech is seeking a Senior Go Backend Developer to design and scale cloud‑native microservices for a high‑throughput SaaS platform. The role involves driving architecture, reliability, and performance for services that handle large volumes of events and data in real time.
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Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate production‑grade Go microservices and APIs (REST/gRPC) with strong testing and observability
Scale distributed systems via sharding, partitioning, horizontal scale, caching, and back‑pressure patterns
Integrate with Kafka (streams/queues), Cassandra/NoSQL, Elasticsearch, and relational stores where appropriate
Own performance & resilience: load/capacity testing, SLIs/SLOs, tracing, metrics, and alerting
Automate CI/CD, IaC, containerization, blue/green or canary deployments
Collaborate with product, SRE, security, and data teams; write clear design docs and lead peer reviews
Mentor engineers and help elevate coding standards and developer experience
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's in CS or equivalent depth in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems
7+ years in backend engineering for service‑oriented/microservices architectures
Expert‑level Go (Golang): modules, profiling/pprof, race detector, benchmarking, concurrency primitives
Proficiency with at least one of: Java, Scala, Kotlin, Python, Node.js
Hands‑on with Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch (or comparable tech at production scale)
Proven ability to scale systems (circuit breaking, retries, idempotency, rate limiting, partitioning)
Strong experience on AWS, GCP, or OCI (networking, IAM, managed services, cost/perf tradeoffs)
Deep understanding of multithreading/concurrency/parallelism and failure modes in distributed systems
Proficient with Git workflows and CI/CD (Jenkins, Argo, GitHub Actions, etc.); strong testing culture
Preferred
Domain exposure to cybersecurity or intelligence platforms
Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite, OpenTelemetry (traces/metrics/logs)
Kubernetes (prod), Helm, Argo Rollouts; service mesh (Istio/Linkerd)
Open‑source contributions (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging, talks)
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Pharmacy
Life
Accidental death & dismemberment
Disability insurance
Employee assistance program
401(k) retirement plan
10 days of paid time off per year
10 paid holidays per year
Company
HCLTech
HCLTech is a global IT company offering digital, engineering, and cloud solutions partnering with businesses for transformation.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$220MKey Investors
ChrysCapital
2008-07-10Post Ipo Equity· $220M
2000-01-06IPO
Leadership Team
Vijayakumar C.
Chief Executive Officer
Alan Flower
Executive Vice President - CTO & Global Head, AI & Cloud Native Labs
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