Golang Backend Lead Engineer

Job Function

Engineering, Information Technology

Employment Type

Full Time

Seniority Level

Senior Level

Responsibilities

• Your primary focus will be on developing Go packages and programs that are scalable and maintainable
• You will ensure that these Go packages and programs are well documented and has a reasonable test coverage.
• You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure
• You must be committed to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design & product quality
• You must be proficient in writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
• You must demonstrate a knack for translating software requirements into stable, working, high performance software
• You will be expected to own a few microservices.

Technical Qualifications

●   5-8 years of production grade experience.

●   Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms

●   Knowledge of common Goroutine and channel patterns

●   Experience with the full site of Go frameworks and tools, including:

○   Dependency management tools such as Godep, Sltr, 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

●   You must have the ability to write clean and effective code comments

●   You must be familiar with the following Databases

○   MySQL

○   MongoDB

○   Redis

• You must be familiar with RESTful APIs
• You must be familiar with Docker.
• You must possess the ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• You must have a knack for benchmarking and optimization
• You must be familiar with code versioning tools such as Git
• Understanding of Kubernetes is a bonus
• Understanding of Front-end Technologies such as React.js & Next.js is a bonus

Behavioral Qualification

• You must have the ability to proactively spot technical blockers and mitigate them through automation
• You must demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills
• You must demonstrate a deep passion for technology and flexibility to work on different platforms
• You must have an urge to collaborate and communicate across verticals; with peers & leadership.
• You must have an urge to document efficiently and enable knowledge sharing and transparency
• You must have an enthusiastic, go-for-it attitude. When you see something broken, you cannot help but fix it.
• You must have an urge for delivering quickly and iterating fast.