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Principal Backend Engineer (Go / Rust)
US-based fintech client · Noida · 10-15 yrs · ₹55-74 LPA
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We are hiring a Principal Backend Engineer (Go / Rust) in Noida for a team building on Rust, Go, Concurrency. 10-15 years of experience.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
Rust, Go, Concurrency, with Performance, error handling, Testing across the wider stack.
WHAT YOU NEED
- 10-15 years with Rust in production.
- Hands-on depth in Go, Concurrency, enough to defend a decision you made in each, and name the one you rejected.
- Working familiarity with Performance, error handling, Testing.
- You have set technical direction that other teams built on, and have been wrong about one of those decisions in a way you can describe.
- The ability to explain a technical decision to somebody who did not make it. Every round here includes it.
ALSO EXPECTED
Not the focus of the interview, but part of the job. Teams ask about these, so be ready to talk about them:
- Git, branching and code review as a daily habit
- One cloud provider used in anger: AWS, Azure or GCP
- CI/CD: your work reaches an environment without somebody carrying it
- Docker, and a container platform in production: Kubernetes, ECS or equivalent
- A queue or stream (Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ), and what you do when it backs up
- Logs, metrics and traces you actually read when something is on fire
HOW THE INTERVIEW GOES
Expect to be asked how you would approach a problem in each of the areas above, and why you would not take the obvious route. Then one level down on whichever answer was weakest.
What the interview covers
Rust, Go and Concurrency.
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