AA Kenya is the oldest and largest automobile association in Kenya with over 100,000 members and branch offices in all major towns countrywide. Internationally we are affiliated with the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) which represents over 100 million motorists worldwide.
Job Summary
We are looking for a talented Go (Golang) Developer to design, build, and maintain high-performance, scalable microservices that power our customer-facing and internal systems. The job holder will be working in a modern, cloud-native environment on a microservices architecture built primarily in Go, running on Kubernetes (AWS/EKS or GCP).
Key Responsibilities.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and resilient microservices in Go
- Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code (we love idiomatic Go!)
- Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, DevOps, and other backend teams
- Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews
- Optimize performance, latency, and cost of services
- Integrate with third-party APIs (payments, SMS, mapping, insurance providers, etc.)
- Help evolve our CI/CD pipelines and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry)
Tech Stack You’ll Work With
- Backend: Go (1.22+), gRPC, REST, Gin
- Data: PostgreSQL, Redis
- Infrastructure: Docker, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
- Message brokers: RabbitMq
- Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger
Minimum job requirements:
For appointment to this position, one must possess:
- 3 plus years of backend development experience.
- 2 plus years of professional experience with Go in production systems (please share your GitHub or public projects if possible)
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST/gRPC APIs, and distributed systems
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and caching (Redis)
- Comfortable with Git, Docker, and CI/CD workflows
- Good knowledge of software engineering best practices (testing, code reviews, documentation)
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
Method of Application
Meet the Qualifications? Apply now at AA Kenya on forms.zohopublic.com