Staff Golang Engineer

• Client: US fintech (ledger and money movement platform) · Location: remote, LATAM, US Eastern overlap · Level: staff · Engagement: full-time contractor
• You will be the technical lead for the core ledger and payment services written in Go, setting architecture across several teams while still shipping code.

What you will do

• Own the design of the double-entry ledger and money movement services, with correctness and idempotency as first principles
• Lead cross-team technical initiatives from RFC to rollout
• Write and review Go for high-throughput, low-latency services using gRPC, Kafka and PostgreSQL
• Define standards for testing, observability and failure handling in distributed transactions
• Integrate with banking partners and payment rails (ACH, RTP, FedNow, card networks)
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the hiring bar

What you bring

• 10+ years of backend engineering, 5+ in Go in production
• Staff-level scope: has led architecture across multiple teams
• Deep distributed systems knowledge: consistency, sagas, exactly-once semantics, event sourcing

Strong PostgreSQL and data modeling for financial records

• Experience in payments, banking or another domain where data correctness is critical
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Nice to have
• Direct ledger or core banking build experience
• Kubernetes and AWS operations background
• Familiarity with PCI DSS, SOC 2 and audit requirements
• Originally posted on Himalayas