Freelance Go jobs for world-class engineers

At Toptal, you’ll work on freelance Go jobs and projects with top clients who understand the value of elite engineering talent. As a former Go Developer or Back-end Engineer, you gain the opportunity to design your own schedule, get real-time help from a global community of experts, and enjoy top professional development opportunities.

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Why should you use Toptal to build your career?

At Toptal, you’ll always have plenty of opportunities available to grow personally and professionally. From working with cutting-edge technologies to getting real-time feedback from a global community of top developers, there are always options for creating value for yourself here.

Grow your career by working with top companies

Grow your career by working with top companies

At Toptal, you’ll choose from projects with industry leaders like Airbnb and NetApp and learn cutting-edge technologies and skills.

Never worry about payments

Never worry about payments

At Toptal, you set your own rate, always get paid on time, and never have to worry about negotiating with clients or competing with cheap, inexperienced developers.

Design your own lifestyle

Design your own lifestyle

No offices, no useless meetings, and no mandatory hours. You choose your own availability and enjoy the freedom to work from wherever you want.

Learn from peers and take advanced technical courses

Learn from peers and take advanced technical courses

Have a bug? Ping the Toptal Slack Community for real-time, on-demand support from a global network of top engineers. Want to learn a new skill? The Toptal Academy is designed to help you rapidly gain professional expertise in a new technology.

Get featured on the Toptal Engineering Blog

Get featured on the Toptal Engineering Blog

With hundreds of thousands of subscribers, hundreds of advanced technical studies, and frequent syndication requests from top industry publications, publishing on the Toptal Engineering Blog is a unique chance to show off your top work to the best in the industry.

Speak at conferences and attend events

Speak at conferences and attend events

Not only will you be able to attend Toptal Community events in cities all around the world, but as part of the Toptal Speakers Network, we’ll also help you attend leading conferences, submit papers, and prepare and deliver keynote speeches.

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Meet members of the Toptal Go community:

Matthew Baker

Beaver, PA, United States

Matt has worked on everything from web development in .NET and embedded development in C to low-level Windows development, rich client d... Read More

Go EngineerC#Agile Software DevelopmentData Science

Artur Brugeman

Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia

Artur is a software engineer with a proven ability to develop efficient, robust, and simple back-end solutions for dealing with large da... Read More

Go EngineerC++Webcrawling

Brendon Hogger

Taipei, Taiwan

Brendon has fifteen years of experience designing and delivering software from social networking startups to enterprise telecom solution... Read More

Go EngineerPythonErlang

Radu Ioan Fericean

Timișoara, Timiș County, Romania

Radu is a versatile software developer who has worked with various programming languages, technologies, and operating systems. He design... Read More

Go EngineerPythonWeb2py

Sergey Lalov

Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

Sergey is a professional game developer. With a strong background in computer graphics, networking, signal processing, and low-level pro... Read More

Go EngineerLuaPythonCorona SDKGoogle Game ServicesPrototype-based OOPAgile Software DevelopmentiOSAndroidSQLiteGame Development2D GamesGame Design

Mahmud Ridwan

Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh

Mahmud is a software developer with a knack for efficiency, scalability, and stable solutions. With years of experience working with a w... Read More

Go EngineerJavaScriptCoffeeScriptRedisExpress.jsGoogle App EngineNode.jsFirebaseLaravelWordPress

Andrii Soldatenko

Kiev, Ukraine

Andrii is a blogger and speaker as well as an expert back-end developer with Python/C and Golang. He has extensive knowledge of the Dock... Read More

Go EngineerSQLPythonFacebook Open Graph APIPostgreSQLElasticsearchDockerNeo4jStripe APIBashKubernetesAnsibleEthereum

See 3 typical Go jobs you’ll have access to at Toptal:

Top clients, ranging from industry-leaders to rapidly growing start-ups, use Toptal to hire elite Go engineers for their mission-critical jobs.

Platform Developer
Go, SQL, JavaScript, Node.js

We are a fast-growing Silicon Valley startup personalizing the way people consume digital content. We are looking to bring on a strong Platform Developer to join our team of data scientists and developers building APIs and applications on a large scale. The ideal hire is comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative way to improve our existing platform into a stable, reliable, and high-performance Go application with broad reach on the AWS stack.

Go Developer
Go, CLI

We are a software development company designing and building products that power engineering teams. We are looking for a developer to help create and maintain new tools that work on Linux and Windows, including all unit and integration test. The developer would be responsible for determining whether to create from scratch or develop from an existing tool we’ve built.

Golang Expert
Go, C++, Lua

We are an entertainment company specializing in new deliveries of journalism content. In order to help us in our mission to bring publishers and advertisers to our content platform, we are looking to hire a Golang and C++ expert to scale up the backend of our platform. The ideal developer will provide suggestions and creative problem solving to help update the many high-scale services powering our content platform.

Enjoy competitive, worry-free compensation.

At Toptal, you set your own rates and never have to spend time marketing yourself, billing clients, etc. Most Toptalers make substantially more through Toptal than they did at their previous jobs, and we’ll always pay you on time, even if clients have not yet paid us. Never worry about payments again.

Trusted by:
HP Enterprises worked with Toptal to add freelance developers to their team in Israel.
Airbnb trusted Toptal to help hire programmers to support their Berlin office.
Zendesk trusted Toptal contractors to develop their key software applications.
Thumbtack hires software engineers from Toptal for their mission-critical initiatives.
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NetApp hires software engineers from Toptal for their mission-critical initiatives.

Design your own lifestyle.

At Toptal, you can choose your own schedule and work from anywhere in the world that has Internet. Whether you want to spend more time at home with your family or start traveling and work from exotic beaches, the choice is completely up to you. No offices, no mandatory hours, just complete freedom to work in the way that suits you best.

Join tech conferences, advanced skill development sessions, and more.

Not only will you be able to attend Toptal Community events in cities all around the world, but if you join the Toptal Speakers Network, we'll also help you attend leading conferences, submit papers, and prepare and deliver keynote speeches.

Montreal, Canada

Toptal End of the Year Dinner

Organized by Toptal
Riga, Latvia

End of the Year Community Meetup

Organized by Toptal
Guadalajara, Mexico

Posadev 2019

Sponsored by Toptal
Recife, State of Pernambuco, Brazil

Toptal Networking Dinner

Organized by Toptal

Publish technical papers alongside Go engineers on the Toptal Engineering Blog.

The Toptal Engineering Blog features hundreds of thousands of subscribers, daily in-depth technical studies, and frequent syndication requests from leading publications across the tech industry. By joining, you’ll be able to publish on the Toptal Engineering Blog and show your top work off to a global audience of Go engineers.

4 Críticas al Lenguaje Go

Sergei Peshkov
Freelance Go Developer
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4 Go Language Criticisms

Sergei Peshkov
Freelance Go Developer
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Testing Your Go App: Get Started The Right Way

Gabriel Aszalos
FREELANCE SOFTWARE ENGINEER
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Going Real-Time with Redis Pub/Sub

Mahmud Ridwan
Technical Editor
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Go Programming Language: An Introductory Golang Tutorial

Brendon Hogger
Software Architect
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Server-side I/O Performance: Node vs. PHP vs. Java vs. Go

Brad Peabody
Developer
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Why do top Go experts join Toptal?

Dmitry Duka

Senior Enterprise Developer
Viciebsk, Belarus

Dmitry has over eight years of experience developing enterprise applications on the .NET platform, including having been part of the development team at SocialWellth, Inc. (WorldDoc, Inc.), Synerion, Inc., and Nexum IT companies.

The greatest benefit of Toptal is that there are tons of great projects to apply to with a full breadth of flexible schedule options: from hourly to full-time work. You can promptly find a project with the tech stack you like best, or have projects come to you via Toptal recruiters. It's simply the easiest way to gain work experience with the best clients out there and prove (and improve) all of your skills!

Piotr Jachowicz

Web Developer
Warsaw, Poland

Piotr is a full-stack web developer who is partial to .NET for his back-end framework and on the front end as well. He has significant experience working with various JavaScript frameworks and libraries (mainly with jQuery, Vue.js, and Angular). Piotr is a quick learner, so he’s not limited to the usual suspects for frameworks—he’s willing and able to learn new skills needed on any particular project rapidly.

Joining Toptal felt like an ambitious task to get into a community of some of the best software development professionals out there, but this promise was delivered in full. Toptal makes sure that you are able to hone your skills, both technical and soft, and develop yourself as a professional, while delivering opportunities to work on high quality, challenging projects. The feeling of getting "top" projects and working with "top" professionals is what makes Toptal exceptional.

By joining Toptal, you’ll have full flexibility over which projects you choose and when you want to work.

Aside from enjoying the benefits of our amazing community, you’ll have full flexibility to accept or reject projects as you prefer. Whether you prefer to work full-time at Toptal or you’d rather just take on occasional hourly jobs, the choice is yours.

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