Software Engineer – Golang / GraphQL

Seattle, WA, United States (On-site)

Contract (11 months 5 days)

Published 5 hours ago

api development

change management

performance optimization

kafka

DevOps & CI/CD

microservices architecture

sql database

golang

unit testing

• Software Engineer to support our next generation Point-of-Sale platform. This role is responsible for delivering backend enhancements, maintaining cloud-native services, and providing L4 production support to ensure platform stability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• The ideal candidate has strong experience in Golang, microservices, APIs, cloud technologies, and production troubleshooting, with the ability to balance feature development, incident resolution, and continuous platform improvements in a fast-paced retail environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain Golang-based microservices and APIs.
• Build and enhance REST and GraphQL services supporting store operations and enterprise integrations.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes.
• Collaborate with Product, QA, DevOps, and Support teams to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.
• Refactor legacy applications to improve performance, maintainability, and scalability.
• Develop automated unit and integration tests and participate in code reviews.
• Support production deployments, change management, and operational readiness activities

Mandatory Skills:

• 7+ years of Software Engineering experience; 2+ years of hands-on Golang development
• Strong experience with Microservices Architecture
• Experience designing and developing REST APIs
• Experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP
• CI/CD pipeline development and deployment experience
• Production support, troubleshooting, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Understanding of HTTP, TCP/IP, and distributed systems
• GraphQL development (gqlgen or similar), gRPC, Protobuf, OpenAPI
• Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, or AWS SQS
• Kubernetes and containerized environments
• Retail, POS, or Store Systems experience

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $36.06/hour - $56.34/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information.

In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.