Golang Developer

About CGI

Founded in 1976, CGI is among the world's largest independent IT and business consulting services firms. With 94,000 consultants and professionals globally, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services, and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2024 reported revenue is CA$14.68 billion, and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at cgi.com.

Job Title: Software Engineering

Position: Lead Consultant

Experience: 7 to 10 years

Category: Software Development

Job location: Bangalore

Shift: Rotational Shift

Position ID: J0726-1213

Work Type: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full Time / Permanent

Qualification: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

Designing service and data layer patterns within a clean architecture (service repository resolver)

Leading PostgreSQL schema design, query optimisation, and migration strategy

Designing and maintaining Temporal workflows for complex async processing and cross system data sync

Driving integration patterns with external systems via REST, Kafka/Azure Event Hub, and Azure Service Bus

Setting standards for RBAC authorization and security practices

Owning infrastructure concerns (Kubernetes/Kustomize/FluxCD/Helm) and contributing to platform decisions

Owning and evolving the GraphQL API server (Go / `gqlgen`) - architecture decisions included

Mentoring engineers, leading code reviews, and raising the bar on test quality and engineering practices

Required Skills Core

5+ years of professional Go experience - idiomatic Go, concurrency patterns, performance tuning

Deep PostgreSQL expertise - schema design, indexing strategy, query optimisation, migrations at scale

Proven experience designing and maintaining GraphQL APIs in production

Hands on with async/event driven architectures - Kafka, service buses, or equivalent

Solid Azure (or equivalent AWS/GCP) experience - managed databases, messaging, secrets management, container registries

Solid Kubernetes knowledge - deployments, config, networking, resource management

Experience with GitOps based delivery (FluxCD, ArgoCD, or similar)

Required Skills Engineering Practices

Able to make and justify architectural decisions, not just implement them

Strong testing culture - unit, integration, and end to end; knows what to test and at what level

Experience working in larger codebases with multiple engineers and long lived production systems

Comfortable working across ambiguity - breaking down complex problems into deliverable increments

Nice to Have Skills Backend

Experience with Temporal (durable workflow engine) - workflow design, failure handling, versioning

Azure Flexible PostgreSQL (managed PG)

Nice to Have Skills Frontend

TypeScript + React 18 Form heavy UI development

GraphQL client experience

Azure AD / MSAL auth in browser apps

Your future duties and responsibilities

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

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Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.

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