Golang Developer

Job Summary

Seeking an experienced Golang Developer with a strong background in designing, coding, and testing microservices. The ideal candidate will possess expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, Git, and test-driven development (TDD), contributing to scalable architecture and participating in agile processes. Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and leading teams is highly preferred, focusing on building efficient, reliable, and secure backend services.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, code and test Golang services to meet product requirements, this includes writing efficient, reusable and reliable code.
• Work closely with Product owners/managers, other developers to integrate backend services with various components.
• Lead code reviews, debug existing code and refactor to improve performance or extend functionality.
• Contribute to system architecture, focusing on scalability, performance and security.
• Write and maintain comprehensive documentation for discovery, solution and system components.
• Develop and maintain unit/component/E2E integration tests to ensure software reliability.
• Deploy and test the code in dev test and staging environments and document test evidence prior moving the code to production.
• Assist with production deployment and ensure smooth CI/CD pipeline process.
• Participate in agile development processes including sprint planning, stand-ups, demos and retrospectives.
• Adhere to security and regulatory best practices.
• Own a sub module development with an E2E understanding including infrastructure.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience with software development in a professional environment.
• 2 + years of experience with software development in Go.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail, Strong communication skills both verbal and written.
• Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes or other container orchestration technologies.
• Solid understanding/experience of test-driven development, including unit, component, functional, system integration and regression tests.
• Experience with back-end micro-service architecture and communication, specifically REST and asynchronous messaging services.
• Understanding of concurrent programming and networking in Go.
• Experience with version control systems, particularly Git.
• Ability to work in a team environment as well as independently.
• Commitment to write clean maintainable code with good documentation practices.
• Experience with test case design, test automation and execution.
• Experience working with relational/NoSQL databases.
• Proven experience with leading teams of engineers.
• Wide breath of engineering experience.
• Ability to lead and own an individual module development.
• Mentor and guide success within the team.
• Exposure to distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• Experience working with popular Go s 3rd party libraries.
• Experience leading multiple scrum teams.
• Experience working with GitHub copilot chat.
• Experience working with Comcast Rulio or other rule libraries.
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking.
• Be a productivity multiplier for your team by analysing workflow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.
• Drives the team s strategy and prioritizes initiatives.
• Takes accountability for the success of the team achieving their goals.
• Finds opportunities to embrace innovative technologies to enable business capabilities.