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28.10.2025
Golang Developer
Senior
Development
5-7 years

Schedule

Full-time

Location

Kyiv

Type of Work

Remote

Sphere

High Load Systems
About Job
Summary

WE ARE LOOKING FOR AN EXTREMELY TALENTED GOLANG DEVELOPER!

Responsibilities

Full-time, remote | Long-term collaboration | Start: ASAP

Time zone overlap: 9:00 – 15:00 EST


About the project:

We’re building — a scalable, developer-friendly messaging platform covering email, SMS, and RCS; The domain is messaging infrastructure, with a focus on deliverability, speed, and API quality.


Team structure:

You’ll work directly with the Product Manager;

You won’t mentor anyone at first, but we expect you to bring leadership energy and technical ownership;

You’ll collaborate closely with Product, DevOps, and Customer Success.


Your responsibilities will include:

  • Architect, design, and implement backend systems using Go. 
  • Build and maintain high-volume systems serving email, SMS, RCS, and other marketing communications. 
  • Champion best practices in API design, distributed systems, and messaging reliability. 
  • Take a technical leadership role: mentoring other engineers, participating in code reviews, and helping set engineering standards. 
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, DevOps, and Front-end to deliver business-critical features. 
  • Be a proactive communicator and driving force in team meetings and product planning. 

Requirements
What we Expect

What we expect from you:

  • 5+ years of backend experience in Go. 
  •  Deep understanding of REST APIs, gRPC, scalable microservices, and modern backend architecture.
  • Strong experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes). 
  • Excellent communication skills - you thrive in meetings, love collaborating, and know how to rally a team. 


Bonus points if you have:

  • Experience with message deliverability, carrier compliance, or A2P messaging workflows. 
  • Experience with data streaming and other data tools, Kafka, Airflow, Apache Beam, BigQuery.
  • Familiarity with real-time systems, WebSockets, or push notifications. 
  • Prior startup experience or technical founder background. 
  • Contributions to open source or tech community presence. 
  • Experience working with messaging protocols: SMTP, SMPP, Twilio, Mailgun, RCS APIs, or similar.


Interview process:

  1. Intro call with recruiter;
  2. Technical interview with Empat team;
  3. 15-minute call with the client;
  4. Technical interview from the client's side.


Professional Skill
Technical Skills
Languages
English | Proficient
What we offer
What we Offer

What we offer:

  • Competitive salary and equity;
  • Fully remote work with flexible hours;
  • High level of autonomy and ownership;
  • A fast-moving, transparent team culture;
  • Learning & development budget;
  • Please note: this position does not include paid vacation or sick leaves.


About Company
Empat
https://empat.tech/

About Us

Empat delivers full-cycle software development grounded in research, empathy, and technical excellence — from system architecture and engineering to UI/UX and go-to-market.

We carefully analyze our clients’ business needs and assist in developing efficient, optimized, and user-friendly solutions that bring profit. Our focus is on working with meaningful projects and clients and utilizing technological solutions to change people’s lives for the better.

Moreover, we are involved in awesome projects! Imagine this — we launched a startup that facilitates non-verbal communication between loved ones, and it has received significant media coverage. In the US, it has surpassed downloads of popular apps like Netflix, Tinder, Pinterest, and many others! Additionally, we have launched a power bank sharing project in the UAE and Ukraine, and we have also created a game that incorporates augmented reality.

A great team is one of our strengths.

It is vital for us to interact with each other. Empathy is our core value, not only for our clients but also for our employees.

We are utterly free and flexible in our decisions. Every employee has the right to decide and influence, we have a horizontal structure, and everyone is equal. We know for sure that only happy employees are hiding behind well-realized projects.

We will be glad to see you at the Empat team!

Values

Passionately work

  • Be responsible for the final result.
  • Exceed expectations.
  • Work as if it's for yourself.
  • Dive headfirst into projects.
  • Be your own manager.
  • Deliver projects with quality and value for the consumer.

Dream Team

  • The team is our circle of absolute trust. We trust each other.
  • Team members always take priority over clients.
  • We are always fair to each other and provide feedback for improvement.
  • We care for and support each other, including younger team members.

To have fun wholeheartedly

  • Know how to laugh at yourself.
  • Understand the limits of jokes.
  • Rest as intensely as you work.
  • Work hard, joke hard.
  • Push yourself out of the comfort zone.


Achievements

  • SINCE 2013, WE DELIVERED OVER 300 PROJECTS FOR 12 MARKETS
  • 6 Y COMBINATOR ALUMNI ARE AMONG OUR CLIENTS
  • 19 FOUNDERS ARE INCLUDED
IN THE FORBES 30 UNDER 30
  • WE HAVE CLIENTS FROM FORTUNE 500 AND S&P 500
  • $380 MILLION RAISED BY CLIENTS IN 2023
  • Empat is #47 AMONG BEST COMPANIES WORLDWIDE on Clutch