Senior Go and Ruby Developer

Important Information 

Location: Brazil
Job Mode: Full-time 
Work Mode: Work from home

Job Summary

As a Senior Go and Ruby Developer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient software applications. Your role will involve leading technical projects, mentoring junior engineers, and continuously improving software development practices to ensure the delivery of robust and reliable software systems.  

Responsibilities and Duties

• Design, develop, and deploy high-performance, resilient, and scalable cloud-native backend systems that power mission-critical cybersecurity platform services;
• Lead end-to-end software delivery from architecture and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support;
• Architect and optimize distributed microservices running on Google Cloud Platform, ensuring reliability, observability, and performance at scale;
• Mentor engineers, participate in architecture discussions and code reviews, and drive engineering excellence through best practices, automation, and modern SDLC processes.

Essential Skills

• Experience in backend engineering or distributed systems development within production-grade environments;
• Experience with Go (Golang), building scalable and high-performance backend services;
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, RESTful API design, and gRPC-based service communication;
• Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems with strong system design fundamentals and performance optimization strategies;
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), building and operating highly available services in cloud-native environments;
• Strong experience with containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes;
• Experience implementing asynchronous messaging systems such as Google Pub/Sub or Kafka;
• Deep knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, including schema design, indexing strategies, and performance tuning;
• Strong experience implementing automated testing strategies (unit, integration, BDD) and CI/CD pipelines aligned with DevOps or GitOps practices;
• Working knowledge of Ruby, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), UML modeling, and experience scaling microservice-based cybersecurity or SaaS platforms

About Encora

Encora is the preferred digital engineering and modernization partner of some of the world’s leading enterprises and digital native companies. With over 9,000 experts in 47+ offices and innovation labs worldwide, Encora’s technology practices include Product Engineering & Development, Cloud Services, Quality Engineering, DevSecOps, Data & Analytics, Digital Experience, Cybersecurity, and AI & LLM Engineering.

At Encora, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and qualifications, and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.