Senior Golang Engineer

About BidOne
BidOne is a local New Zealand company with a truly global presence. Every day, thousands of businesses around the world place orders with their wholesale suppliers through our ecommerce and CRM platforms, spanning five continents.

At BidOne, we care about building solid software – and strong teams. We have a collaborative, supportive culture with a shared sense of responsibility for delivering technology that matters. Our software reflects the real needs of the foodservice businesses we support, and because we sit at the heart of their operations, reliability and trust are core to everything we do.
"Never lose an order" isn't just a slogan – it's how we work, together.

The Role
We're looking for a Senior Golang Engineer to join us on contract as we modernise and replatform our ecommerce system. This is a 24-month fixed term contract with potential to extend, based in Auckland with a hybrid working model.

You'll be part of a friendly and capable engineering team working on something that really matters: rebuilding our backend architecture using Go, modern cloud-native tooling, and a clean, scalable microservices design.
While this is a contract role, you'll have a voice in shaping how Go is adopted across the business – from patterns and practices to mentoring others new to the language. This role would suit someone who enjoys both writing quality code and helping others do the same.

Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership

• Contribute to defining Go standards and patterns as part of our broader replatforming journey
• Share your experience to help other engineers grow – particularly those new to Go
• Lead by example in code quality, collaboration, and delivery
• Support architecture and design discussions with practical, Go-specific insights

Microservices Development

• Design and build Go-based microservices that are secure, scalable, and easy to understand
• Build APIs and asynchronous components in line with best practices
• Ensure observability, performance, and maintainability are baked in from the start

Engineering Practices

• Support modern practices like test-driven development, domain-driven design, and CI/CD
• Use AI-assisted tools (Cursor AI, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) to enhance quality and productivity
• Participate in code reviews, documentation, and continuous improvement conversations

Collaboration & Delivery

• Work closely with product owners, QA, DevOps, and other engineers to deliver customer value
• Provide technical guidance in a supportive and inclusive way
• Help build a positive, respectful culture of learning and engineering craft

What We're Looking For
Must-Have

• 5+ years of professional Go development experience
• Experience designing and building distributed systems and APIs
• Understanding of microservices, REST, and event-driven architecture (Kafka, NATS, Pub/Sub)
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD workflows, and automated testing
• A collaborative working style and a willingness to mentor others
• Ability to support engineering standards in a growing team

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with GraphQL or Search as a Service
• Familiarity with observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Previous experience in ecommerce, foodservice, or supply chain platforms

Who You Are

• A thoughtful engineer who values clean, maintainable code
• A system thinker who enjoys breaking down complexity
• A clear communicator who builds trust through knowledge-sharing and empathy
• Comfortable mentoring others, and open to learning from them too
• Focused on outcomes and collaboration over ego or hierarchy

We strongly encourage applications from anyone who is underrepresented in tech. If this role sounds like you but you're not sure you tick every box — we'd still love to hear from you.

What We Offer

• A high-impact role in a major replatforming initiative
• Long-term contract stability with a modern tech stack
• Hybrid working environment (3 days in-office time in Auckland required)
• A respectful, collaborative team with a no-blame culture
• The opportunity to help shape how Go is used across a global business
• A company that values people just as much as code