Golang Developer

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
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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