Inshorts-SDE-3 (Golang Developer)

Job Title: SDE-3 (Golang Developer)

Company: Inshorts - https://inshorts.com/
Experience: 5–8 Years
Location: Noida ( OnSite )
Employment Type: Full-time

About Inshorts

Inshorts is India’s leading content discovery and news platform, delivering news and stories in 60 words across categories that matter. We’re a fast-paced, product-first company that believes in solving complex problems at scale using cutting-edge technology.

Role: SDE III – Golang (Backend)

We are looking for a strong backend engineer with deep Golang expertise to build and scale distributed systems powering millions of users. This is a hands-on role focused on backend development, performance optimization, and system reliability.

You will work closely with product, data, and infrastructure teams to design and deliver scalable services in a high-traffic environment.

We are looking for an experienced Golang Developer (SDE-3) who will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend systems. You will play a critical role in improving system performance, architecture, and reliability, collaborating closely with product, data, and infrastructure teams.

Key Responsibilities-

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable microservices in Golang

• Build high-performance REST/gRPC APIs serving large-scale traffic.

• Write clean, efficient, and production-grade code with proper testing.

• Optimize existing services for performance, scalability, and reliability.

• Work on concurrency-heavy and distributed systems use cases.

• Integrate message queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ) for asynchronous processing.

• Design efficient database schemas and optimize queries.

• Participate in code reviews and maintain engineering best practices.

• Contribute to monitoring, logging, and production issue resolution.

• Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver features end-to-end
  

Mandatory Skills (Non-Negotiable)
Minimum 4+ years of hands-on Golang experience in production systems.

Strong understanding of: Concurrency and Goroutines , Microservices architecture

Distributed systems fundamentals, Experience building REST APIs and/or gRPC services.
Hands-on experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ.

Strong knowledge of at least one SQL database (MySQL/PostgreSQL).
Experience with Redis or similar caching systems.

Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.

Experience working on AWS or GCP environments.

Good to Have

• Experience in high-traffic consumer tech platforms.

• Exposure to Elasticsearch or real-time systems.

• Understanding of observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).

  What We’re Looking For

  • Strong coding fundamentals and system thinking.

  • Ability to independently own backend modules.

  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, scale-driven environment.

  • Solid debugging and production issue handling skills.

Why Join Inshorts?

• Work on products impacting millions of users daily.

• Be part of a talented engineering team that values innovation and ownership.

• Flexible work setup, cutting-edge tech stack, and opportunities to grow rapidly.