Senior Golang Developer

Recruiter: we Place

Job /AS

Date posted:
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Location:

Pretoria, South Africa

Salary:
Market Annually

Our client, an award-winning Med Tech is looking for a Senior Golang Developer to join their team.

Developing and maintaining software products and solutions offered by the company.

Course or Certificate in Programming

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering (or similar)

5 years working experience

Software development

• API's
  • HTTP
  • Microservices
  • CORS
  • Authentication
  • Logging
  • RESTful
• Databases
  • Analyzing query performance
  • Writing queries
  • Designing DB schemas
  • Creating indexes
  • SQL
• Development
  • Multiprocessing (threading/synchronization/locks)
  • Git
  • Programming
  • CI/CD
  • Docker
  • Golang
  • Queues
• Debugging
  • Debug across multiple interconnected systems
  • Distributed tracing
  • Debug using application logs
  • Web browser console
  • Postman
• Testing
  • Performance Testing
  • Mocking
  • Integration Testing
  • Unit testing
• Cloud
  • Lambda
  • Cloud Front
  • ECS
  • Backups
  • EC2
  • S3
  • AWS/ Azure
• Networking
  • DNS
  • Networking - IPs, ports, subnets
• Other
  • Experience with JavaScript / Type Script
  • HTML

• Databases
  • No
    
    SQL

• Lead the application lifecycle (planning, design, development, deployment, ongoing maintenance), creating user stories and estimates, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Continuously research, evaluate, and integrate new technologies to optimize development efficiency and application performance.
• Plan and design well-structured, reusable application architecture.
• Introduce and implement best practices to ensure high-quality, maintainable systems.
• Participate in project planning by providing accurate estimates, contributing to requirement documentation, and assisting in work breakdown structures for the team.
• Lead the collection and documentation of user requirements, user story creation, estimation, and work plan development, ensuring clear communication of requirements.
• Effectively prioritize, and manage dependencies to ensure timely completion, and switch contexts effectively when the need arises.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to solve problems, make recommendations, and discuss best practices.
• Proactively identify and mitigate cross-functional and user facing risks, adapting as needed.
• Track task and project progress within JIRA.

• Lead and participate in software development adhering to project plans, deadlines, and coding standards.
• Develop and maintain high-quality, maintainable systems using efficient and reusable code according to best practices.
• Use version control effectively and according to best practices, as well as backing up other work according to company standards.
• Prepare and maintain comprehensive testing environments with clear examples and instructions.
• Conduct initial testing and assist in developing testing plans to ensure applications meet specifications.
• Implement and maintain automated tests and component libraries and contribute to team best practices.
• Analyze systems to identify root causes of issues across systems, develop workarounds, and implement permanent fixes.
• Deliver thoroughly tested, performance benchmarked, and functionally compliant work, ensuring readiness for deployment.
• Deploy changes to the production environment following established procedures and supervise more junior team members.
• Oversee, implement and maintain all Dev Ops processes, including CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code as applicable to the team.
• Take ownership of maintaining up to date and accurate code and system level documentation.
• Collaborate with members of other teams to ensure timely integration between systems.

• Provide clear, timely, and insightful updates on project status, progress, risks, and potential problems to the line manager and stakeholders.
• Prepare reports, manuals, and other documentation related to software status, operation, and maintenance.
• Maintain accurate system and product change logs, release notes and notifications to other teams, according to company standards and team practices.
• Offer expert insights and feedback on queries regarding relevant projects.
• Collaborate effectively with team members and stakeholders, by being available on appropriate communication channels with timeliness, well-articulated responses.

• Take ownership of projects and products, driving successful completion.
• Actively participate in peer code reviews, provide constructive feedback, discuss best practices, and contribute innovative ideas to projects.
• Collaborate with the team, and interface with other teams, to solve problems and ensure successful project and product delivery.
• Lead and mentor the development team, fostering a collaborative, innovative, and growth-oriented environment through coaching, code reviews, knowledge…