The job title is "Golang Developer". Are you really looking for people who identify with a programming language and not programming in general? Also, it's called Go, not Golang.

Well if you're looking for someone to work on Go code you will look specifically for Go programmers. People who can already write idiomatic Go code.

Golang is also a better term, due to the fact that "Go" means a lot of different things and is extraordinarily difficult to search for.

There's a difference between an X programmer and a developer with programming experience in language X. The former is either incapable, unwilling or not expected to program in anything other than X. The latter has no implied limitations.

In the specific case where X is Go, requiring previous experience is a signal that the company might not be hiring skilled developers. Skilled developers can learn Go quickly because of the language's small size and consistency.

You're right. Most of our guys are using Go for the first time. What I should have said is we use Go at Torbit and we're hiring. If you want to program in Go and work on technology that touches millions of people every day, come join us!

Yeah, I know. But we also want it to show up in Google so we use the term that is searchable.