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Hire Golang developers who build services that stay simple
APIs, microservices, command line tools and the infrastructure code behind your product. A dedicated Go developer from Latin America who works your hours, writes idiomatic Go and leaves services the next person can change.
TRUSTED BY TEAMS WHOSE CLOUDTASK HIRES HAVE STAYED 5 TO 8 YEARS
How it works
How do I hire a Go developer?
You do one thing: interview. We handle everything else.
Post the role
5 minutes. The role, the motion, the tools, the comp band. That is all we need to start.
Review your matches
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours.
Interview and hire
We coordinate interviews. On Managed Staffing, we also handle payroll and compliance across LATAM.
WHY TEAMS TRUST CLOUDTASK
What you get with every hire
Dedicated to your codebase
One Go developer who learns your code, your conventions and your roadmap. Not a freelancer who closes a ticket and moves on.
Same hours as your team
Latin America and the Caribbean overlap the US working day, so code review, standups and production issues get handled live.
Searched against your stack
Go version, service architecture, database and the cloud you run come from your brief, and each profile is checked against them before you see it.
Replacement guarantee
24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire. If the fit is wrong, the guarantee covers the replacement search.
WHY CLOUDTASK
Staffing with numbers behind it
10,000+
hires placed
since 2016
85%
still in seat
past 90 days
24 months
replacement guarantee
on Managed Staffing
12
countries
across Latin America and the Caribbean
TECH STACK
The Go stack we screen for
Language
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Goroutines and channels
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The context package
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Generics
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The standard library, net/http first
Services
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REST and gRPC services
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Kafka, NATS and message queues
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Chi, Gin and Echo
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Protocol Buffers
Data
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PostgreSQL with pgx or sqlc
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Redis
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Database migrations
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Structured logging
Operations
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Docker and Kubernetes
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Prometheus metrics and tracing
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pprof profiling
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CLI tools and operators
PRICING MODEL
Managed Staffing.
Managed Staffing is open to every role we place. We find the person, handle payments and compliance, and stay involved after the hire with check-ins, visibility, and escalation when something is off. You get the person. We keep the machine running. For roles that create demand, outbound SDRs, BDRs, demand generation and full-cycle AEs, Managed Staffing runs on a six-month minimum term.
Pay
One all-in monthly rate
Per person. That is the number, and there is nothing added to it.
In the monthly rate
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Matching coordination
- Worker payments
- Compliance and employment administration
- Onboarding support at day 0, 7, 30 and 60
- Ongoing check-ins with the hire and with you
- Time and activity tracking, on by default
- Performance escalation
- 24-month replacement guarantee. Replacements not capped.
- Health benefits available on request
- Equipment benefits available on request
Stays with you
- The work itself
- Priorities and direction
- Who you hire
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchPRICING MODEL
Direct Hire.
Direct Hire is open to every role we place. We find the person, vet them, and hand them over. You employ them, you manage them, you own the relationship from day one. Roles that create demand usually land here, because live call feedback and daily coaching work best coming straight from your sales leader, and there is no minimum term.
Pay
20% to 30%
Of first-year base salary. One time, quoted per role, paid when they accept.
In the fee
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Shortlist of matched candidates
- Interview coordination
- Offer support
- 6-month replacement guarantee. One replacement, same job description.
Yours when they accept
- Employment and payroll
- Compliance and employment administration
- Ongoing management
- Time and activity tracking
- Health benefits and equipment benefits
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchHow CloudTask compares
Run the numbers. We did.
The same role, three ways to fill it.
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| US Direct Hire | Staffing Agency | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to First Interview | 48 hours | 3 to 6 weeks | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Payroll & Compliance | Included on Managed Staffing | You manage | Included in rate |
| Vetting Process | Human + AI verified | You screen | Recruiter screened |
| Candidate spam | Screened out before you see a profile | Common | Low |
| Tool Verification | Verified per candidate | Self-reported | Rarely verified |
| Free Replacements | 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire | None | Variable |
Testimonials
Trusted by teams that hire with us
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LATAM has been a gold mine for talent. Our CloudTask hires understand our company culture and mission, and they connect with our customers in a way that drives high NPS and CX scores.
David Barrett CEO, Expensify -
At first we were an SF-based team only. Then I met Amir Reiter back in 2018. After visiting Medellín, I knew LATAM would be key to our growth and success.
Tim Zheng CEO, Apollo.io -
After meeting my CX and CS team in Medellín, we immediately loved the culture and the work ethic. As a European-HQ company, we found LATAM to be perfect to service our American clients.
Carl Carell CRO and Co-founder, GetAccept
SKILLS
Top skills to look for in a Go developer
Go is small enough to learn in weeks and easy to write badly for years. These are the skills that separate idiomatic Go from code that only compiles.
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Concurrency with discipline
Uses goroutines, channels and sync primitives on purpose, and can explain how every goroutine they start will end.
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Context everywhere it belongs
Passes context through calls for timeouts and cancellation, so a slow dependency does not pile up requests.
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Errors handled, not hidden
Checks every error, wraps it with useful context and never discards it with an underscore to make the code shorter.
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Idiomatic and simple
Small interfaces defined where they are used, standard library first, and no framework patterns carried over from other languages.
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Service design
Clear API contracts, graceful shutdown, health checks and retries with limits, so services behave well in production.
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Profiling and observability
Uses pprof, metrics and traces to find the hot path or the leak before changing code.
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Table-driven tests
Tests that cover the edge cases, run with the race detector in CI, so concurrency bugs show up before production.
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AI as a tool, reviewed
Uses coding assistants for boilerplate and tests, and reviews every generated line before it merges.
HIRING GUIDE
How to hire Golang developers
Go services tend to outlive the team that wrote them, and whoever inherits them needs to change them with confidence. This guide covers what a Go developer does, what to test, the red flags and when a dedicated Go developer is the wrong hire.
What does a Go developer do?
Builds and maintains backend services, APIs, command line tools and infrastructure software in Go. Many also own how those services are deployed, observed and scaled.
Day to day that means writing and reviewing code, designing service contracts, handling production incidents and keeping dependencies and the Go version current.
Go or another backend language?
Go fits network services, infrastructure tooling and systems where simple deployment and predictable performance matter. It compiles to a single binary and has concurrency built into the language.
If your product is mostly CRUD on top of a large framework ecosystem, a language with more batteries included may be faster to build in. Hire for the language you run today.
Concurrency is where Go goes wrong
Goroutines are cheap to start and easy to leak. A service that starts goroutines without a way to stop them grows memory until it restarts.
Ask the candidate how they would cancel work when a client disconnects, and how they would find a goroutine leak in production. You want to hear about context, timeouts and profiling.
Service design and operations
A good Go service handles shutdown cleanly, exposes health checks and metrics, and sets timeouts on every outbound call.
Ask how they have run a Go service in production: how it was deployed, what alerted when it failed, and what they changed after the last incident.
What to test in a Go developer interview
Give a small task close to your real work: an HTTP handler that calls a database and another service, with timeouts, error handling and a table-driven test.
Then show code that starts goroutines in a loop and writes to a shared map. A strong answer finds the race, fixes it simply and runs the tests with the race detector.
Red flags in Go developer candidates
Errors thrown away. Code that discards errors, or panics for ordinary failures, will fail silently or crash in production.
Goroutines with no exit. If they cannot say how each goroutine they start will stop, expect leaks.
Java or Node patterns in Go. Large interfaces defined up front, deep inheritance-style structures or a heavy framework for a small service make Go code harder to change.
No race detector. A candidate who has never run tests with the race detector has probably shipped a data race.
Generated code they cannot explain. Ask them to walk through code they wrote with an AI assistant. If they cannot say why it works, nobody has reviewed it.
When should you not hire a dedicated Go developer?
When you have one small service that rarely changes, and occasional maintenance is enough. A full-time Go developer will not have enough to do.
It is also the wrong hire when nobody on your side can review code or set priorities. A single developer with no technical lead and no product owner tends to build what is interesting instead of what the business needs.
How much does it cost to hire a Go developer?
It depends on seniority, the scope of the work and the country the person works from, and any single number describes one scenario and calls it a price.
What is worth understanding is the shape. On Managed Staffing it is one all-in monthly rate per person, with payments, compliance and replacement cover inside it. On Direct Hire it is a one-time fee of 20% to 30% of first-year base salary and the person goes on your payroll. We quote your number before you interview anyone.
Why hire a Go developer in Latin America?
Overlap. Development runs on code review, standups and incidents, and Latin America and the Caribbean share most of the US working day, so those happen in real time instead of overnight.
The second reason is communication. Your developer writes pull request descriptions, technical notes and status updates in English, and we screen English live on a call.
How does CloudTask hire for this role?
You send the Go version, the services and databases you run, the cloud you deploy to and the hours you need covered. We source against that brief and come back with 3 to 5 matched profiles within 48 hours, each one screened on a live call and checked against the stack you named.
You interview and choose. On Managed Staffing we handle payments, compliance and onboarding and stay involved with check-ins. On Direct Hire the person joins your payroll from day one. Both carry a replacement guarantee: 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire.
FAQ
The fine print, in plain terms.
Is Go the same as Golang?
Can a Go developer also manage our infrastructure?
Can a Go developer take over services written by someone else?
How fast can a Go developer start?
What is the $299 for?
Why is there no number on the monthly rate?
Who is the legal employer?
How does tracking work, and can I turn it off?
What happens if the person does not work out?
Is there a platform or subscription fee?
Ready to hire?
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours. Start with a quick role brief to get your shortlist.