Mid/Senior-level GoLang Data Engineer

Summary

Inca Digital is a veteran-owned data and intelligence company specializing in digital-asset analytics for exchanges, financial institutions, regulators, and blockchain ecosystems. The Mid/Senior-level GoLang Data Engineer will design, build, and operate data pipelines and backend services that transform blockchain, financial, social, and web data into APIs, dashboards, alerts, and intelligence products.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate end-to-end batch and incremental ETL/ELT pipelines, turning raw data into production-grade APIs, dashboards, and automated alerts
• High-throughput data acquisition from diverse sources: relational databases, third-party and vendor APIs, flat files, blockchain nodes and indexers, and social and web text at scale
• Develop NLP pipelines working with unstructured and semi-structured text data — entity and claim extraction, classification, deduplication, and enrichment feeding downstream risk models
• Case management, report generation, and intelligence portal supporting data systems
• Partner with the Head of R&D, engineers, data scientists, and our investigations team to translate intelligence requirements into scalable client-facing products
• Contribute to technical design and architecture in a written, argued design process
• Support improving system data quality and system maintenance: versioning, validation, lineage, reconciliation, and freshness monitoring

Skills

• 3+ years of professional experience developing backend services with Golang
• Good knowledge of Go fundamentals, including concurrency, testing, etc
• Experience with REST APIs and/or gRPC
• Experience working in AWS environments
• Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka/RabbitMQ/SQS/etc
• Experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB/Redis/DynamoDB
• Familiarity with microservices and distributed systems
• Experience with Docker, Git, and CI/CD
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Familiarity with observability tooling and practices

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 3+ years of professional experience developing backend services with Golang
• Good knowledge of Go fundamentals, including concurrency, testing, etc
• Experience with REST APIs and/or gRPC
• Experience working in AWS environments
• Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka/RabbitMQ/SQS/etc
• Experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB/Redis/DynamoDB
• Familiarity with microservices and distributed systems
• Experience with Docker, Git, and CI/CD

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Familiarity with observability tooling and practices

Benefits

• Fully remote, high-trust environment
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401(k)
• Childcare stipends
• Wellness stipends
• Dedicated employee assistance resources
• Work with cutting-edge technology at the intersection of national security and digital assets