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Golang Developer

Tekfortune

Job Location:

Philadelphia, PA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 29 September 2026 (7 days ago)

Application Deadline: 27 December 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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Position: Golang Developer
Application Development
100% Remote

Job Description:
Overview
Join a newly formed engineering team responsible for advancing Event Horizon Walmarts enterprise messaging platform that powers critical promotions and customer engagement capabilities. Event Horizon is already deployed and supporting production workloads across the business including Sams Club and is entering its next phase of growth with significant feature enhancements scalability improvements and platform modernization efforts.
This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in large-scale distributed systems event-driven architectures and high-throughput backend services. You will play a key role in designing building and scaling messaging infrastructure that supports millions of customer interactions across Walmarts digital ecosystem.
Responsibilities

Design develop and maintain scalable backend services using Golang and Java
Build and enhance core components of the Event Horizon messaging platform
Develop highly available fault-tolerant distributed systems that process large volumes of events and messages
Partner with Product Managers Architects and Engineering teams to deliver new platform capabilities
Drive improvements in platform performance reliability observability and scalability
Implement event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing solutions
Build APIs microservices and messaging integrations that support promotional experiences across multiple channels
Participate in architecture discussions and influence long-term technical strategy
Troubleshoot production issues and drive root cause analysis for complex distributed systems
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines automation and operational excellence initiatives

Required Qualifications

5 years of software engineering experience
Strong hands-on experience with Golang (preferred primary language)
Experience building distributed systems and microservices architectures
Experience with messaging event streaming or event-driven platforms
Strong understanding of REST APIs and backend service development
Experience working with cloud platforms (GCP AWS or Azure)
Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Kafka Pub/Sub RabbitMQ SNS/SQS or similar messaging technologies
Experience building platform-level services used by multiple engineering teams
Background supporting high-volume consumer-facing applications
Experience with promotions ecommerce marketing technology or customer engagement platforms
Knowledge of observability tools such as Prometheus Grafana Datadog or OpenTelemetry
Experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code

Technical Environment

Golang
Java
Microservices
Event-Driven Architecture
Messaging Platforms
Kafka / PubSub
Kubernetes
Docker
Cloud Platforms (GCP preferred)
REST APIs
CI/CD Pipelines
Distributed Systems

What Success Looks Like

Deliver enhancements that expand the capabilities of the Event Horizon platform
Improve platform scalability and reliability for growing promotional workloads
Enable new business use cases through efficient messaging and event-processing solutions
Help establish engineering best practices for a newly formed high-impact team