Sr. Golang Engineer

Role & responsibilities

We are seeking a Senior Backend Developer to join our self-organized agile team. You will own and contribute to all aspects of service development, from API design to production operations. Your expertise in Go and web-scale cloud-native services will help us build highly performant, reliable, and secure back-end systems.

Responsibilities

• Work effectively as a member of a self-organized agile team that builds, owns, and runs the service.
• Contribute to all aspects of service development including back-end and quality.
• Assist in the operation of the service, e.g. monitoring, alerting, metrics, logging, and troubleshooting.
• Work closely with architects and product management to understand requirements and translate them into elegant implementations.
• Use the current system behavior to identify opportunities for continuous improvement of scalability, reliability, usability, and security.
• Exhibit excellent troubleshooting skills; debug complex technical issues involving multiple system components.

Preferred candidate profile

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building web applications.
• Hands-on experience with Golang, Web API, and RESTful API design.
• Experience in building cloud-native web services with high performance and high availability at web scale.
• Strong understanding of software design and architectural patterns.
• Commitment to quality, including security and performance.
• Experience with agile methodologies (Scrum or Kanban).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with relational data stores such as MSSQL or MySQL.

Preferred

• Strong design and coding skills with the ability to pick up new languages, tools, and design patterns as needed.
• Experience with the AWS stack is a plus.

Education

• Bachelors or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.