We are looking for a skilled and passionate Golang Back-end Lead who will be responsible for our server-side application logic along with its integration with the front-end platforms. In this position, you will use your programming skills and tools to analyze and translate business/feature requirements into well-structured, efficient, scalable software, as well as provide leadership and mentoring to the team on technical aspects. You will also be actively involved in researching new technologies/tools that can be incorporated to improve the current system.
Descriptions
- Develop secure, well-architected, scalable and performant backend applications in Golang
- Implement best practices for maintainable quality code
- Optimize existing codes to improve performance and efficiency
- Provide mentorship, code reviews and technical direction to your team members.
- Develop partnerships with engineers and product managers to better understand and implement product requirements.
- Collaborate with Product, QA and UI team to deliver features and improvements
- Build & maintain a strong team of developers that consistently deliver solid results.
- Monitor and adapt the team's pace to instill a sense of urgency for progress while avoiding burnout.
Requirements
- Backend engineers with 5+ years of experience building product feature, including 1+ years of leadership experience.
- Having 4+ years of experience with Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms.
- Understand the importance of good coding standards/best practices as well as how they can be implemented in production environments.
- Experienced in handling Event Stream Processing (Kafka).
- Experience and strong understanding of the microservices concept.
- Familiar with Golang tools and frameworks.
- Accustomed to modern version control systems such as Git, especially Gitlab.
- Experience in Deployments to Cloud services such as AWS/GCP.
- Experience in Integrations using Pipelines.
- Comfortable operating in a Linux environment.
- Self-motivated, passionate & eager to improve by keeping up-to-date with the latest trends in back-end development.
- Good communication & teamwork skills, capable of collaborating with other team members.
- Good self-managing skills, in particular with keeping up with the timeline.