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There are WAY more jobs for python backends compared to go. Difference in salary is purely based on experience too. There is no career related reason to suddenly switch to go. As a fresh junior dev you're going to do your self a huge disservice if you start learning things unrelated to your current work. Get familiar with the stack at your job first. Do some own projects with the same technologies if you want to spend your spare time. You're going to benefit much more from a deep understanding of python than a surface level understanding of python and go.

To be honest, choosing a language depends on you or your company more than should you learn it. Ask 2 questions: 1. Do I need/ would it help to learn the language. 2. Do I want to learn the language and do I have the disposable time. if the answer to one of the questions is yes go and do it. learning other languages helps in understanding more about programming. But other actions can be taken to learn more like learning patterns like strategy, dependency injection, etc. Or learning more about testing, scrum, or other ways of collaboration. For now, I don't see the need for me to learn Golang. Since I don't want to take up another project. It looks like an interesting language. Like C with a garbage collector.

This is me but replace Java with Python. Jumping in head first into GO because it seems cool and because I noticed the go jobs tend to be better paid so I'm jumping in. Just building experience then I'll wait for the right time.

Yeah kind of my sentiment too. Doing Python is beneficial, especially with its sky-high popularity right now, but moving on is perhaps inevitable, which only becomes clear with hindsight. I was very anti-Go a few years ago, I saw it as a painfully pedestrian language, imposing its disagreeable opinions on you. Meanwhile, in Python, freedom and elegance awaits! However, if you grow weary of Python after a few years for whichever of the possible reasons, Golang is quite the natural progression. The way I see it now, I'm happier to live together with Go's opinionatedness even when I disagree with some of them. Accepting them means many decisions you don't have to make. That's why Go is now my go-to choice for quick-and-dirty programs but also professional backend development. Backend programs don't need to build super sophisticated worlds of class structures these days, they don't have to solve all the problems in the same process. What they need to do is communicate well and play nicely with the outside world and give the user (the programmer) as much help as they can.

Python is such a great language in terms of tooling and just very quick to finish. I like go, but it's way more verbose than python, the ecosysten is much less abundant too

Rust 🦀!!!!