Golang Engineer

Do you bring experience and passion to your work? Do you enjoy working as part of a team? Does seeing a software product come to life make you happy? If yes, we’d love to talk about the Golang Engineer role we’re looking to fill.

Requirements

• 6 months to 1 year of professional programming experience with Go
• Strong knowledge of Go paradigms, constructs, and idioms
• Knowledge of common Goroutine and channel patterns
• Experience with the full suite of Go frameworks and tools, including:
• Dependency management tools such as Godep, etc.
• Go's templating language
• Go's code generation tools, such as Stringer
• Popular Go web frameworks, such as Revel
• Router packages, such as Gorilla Mux
• Ability to write clean and effective Godoc comments
• 1+ years of Service-oriented architecture (SOA), microservices, and REST APIs
• Hands-on experience deploying applications on AWS; experienced with Jenkins & Docker
• Must have experience with Apache Kafka
• BS or advanced degree in software engineering or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum six years of experience in Software Development.
• Excels at critical reasoning and decision making.
• Experience working with distributed teams and clients.
• Knowledge of Agile and SDLC concepts, practices, and techniques.
• Competency developing, validating, and deploying web and/or mobile applications.
• Familiar with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Strong knowledge of non-functional areas, such as: performance, scalability, user experience, etc.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills (in English).
• Proven ability to earn trust from clients and build lasting relationships.

Responsibilities

• Takes responsibility for the technical execution of projects and the overall quality of the code being developed.
• Provides hands-on programming and testing (functional, integration, unit testing, etc.).
• Demonstrates expertise in Agile methodologies and SDLC processes.
• Supports adherence to project timelines and budgets.
• Constantly seeks to reduce friction in the client experience and delivery process.
• Understands clients’ business-level strategies and identifies new business opportunities.  
• Creates detailed plans well in advance and initiates action to move projects forward and adhere to project timelines and budgets.
• Assumes responsibility for solving any technical issues, roadblocks or project risks.
• Leads code reviews and enforces best practices for coding and documentation standards.
• Recognizes challenges early and escalates issues to project leadership.
• Constantly looks for ways to increase the team’s velocity/productivity.
• Seeks to clarify business requirements and shares responsibility with leadership to transform those requirements into results.
• Evaluates, recommends and selects simple, cost-effective and stable frameworks/solutions where possible.
• Adjusts activities to respond to changing circumstances and create value.
• Manages time effectively, monitoring performance against deadlines and milestones.
• Takes an active role in managing the client relationship. Makes sure that team members provide status updates and other routine client communications.
• Mentors and provides coaching to team members.

English level: Upper intermediate.

Time shift: Full time

Location: Remote