Software Development & QA
Hire Go Developers for APIs and Microservices
Go developers build fast, reliable back-end services, command-line tools and infrastructure software that is simple to deploy.
The role
What Go developers do
Go compiles to a single binary and handles concurrency well, so it is common for APIs, microservices, networking tools and cloud infrastructure. A Go developer writes straightforward code, uses goroutines carefully, and keeps services observable in production.
Typical deliverables
- APIs and microservices
- Command-line tools
- Kubernetes operators and infrastructure tools
- Performance improvements to existing services
- Tests and benchmarks
Tools you will see
- Go
- net/http, Gin or Echo
- gRPC
- PostgreSQL
- Docker
- Prometheus
Choosing
How to choose Go developers
What to look for
- Idiomatic Go: simple code and explicit error handling.
- Careful concurrency without races or leaked goroutines.
- Tests and benchmarks in their projects.
- Metrics and logging built into services.
Questions to ask
- 1How do you avoid race conditions in concurrent Go code?
- 2When would you use gRPC instead of REST?
- 3How do you profile a slow Go service?
- 4How do you structure a Go project as it grows?
Planning
Before you post the job
Service or tool
Say whether you need a long-running service, a CLI or an infrastructure component. The experience differs.
What drives cost
Throughput targets, integrations, concurrency complexity and operational requirements.
Hiring on Open Lance
- Posting a job and reviewing proposals are free.
- Each milestone is funded into escrow before work starts and paid when you approve it.
- Hire fixed-price, hourly, as a monthly Dedicated Hire, or buy a packaged Drop-In.
- Client fees are shown before you pay and added on top of the work.
FAQ
Questions about hiring Go developers
Why choose Go for a backend?
Go services are fast, use little memory and deploy as a single binary, which keeps operations simple.
Go or Node.js?
Go suits CPU-heavy and highly concurrent services; Node.js suits JavaScript teams and I/O-heavy APIs.
Is Go used for DevOps tools?
Yes. Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform are all written in Go.
Related
Related skills
Post a job for Go developers
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