Senior Back End Golang Developer

The ideal candidate has:

• A minimum of 5-6 years of hands-on, relevant software delivery experience 
• A track record of leading a team of senior software engineers to deliver world-class enterprise solutions successfully
• An excellent grasp on the key drivers of business goals and an ability to make the trade-offs between speed to market, technical debt and business strategy
• A mindset that thrives in an environment where everyone pulls together toward a common goal, actively contributing their talent and experience
• Attention to detail
• An understanding of what it takes to build great software with a compelling user experience
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, can communicate complex, technical concepts at the right level for the intended audience.
• Ability to think critically, ensuring software standards, conventions, performance, and fault tolerance of the highest calibre
• Ability to manage complex personal situations by ensuring individuals are kept highly motivated & valued and at the same time ensuring the company is achieving its goals

Responsibilities:

• Proactively address any issues or blockers
• Collaborate with management, project management, and QA to meet goals and deadlines
• Write well thought out, researched, readable, simple, maintainable code which the rest of the team will enjoy working with
• Take ownership of the project Technical Roadmap, specifications, release cycles, and features to ensure all applications and components and fit-for-purpose and meet specifications.
• Provide estimations of development effort to be provided as feedback to the Product Team, and Management
• Ensure project documentation is completed on time and maintained as part of the project lifecycle
• Driving efficiencies and velocity of teams output

Key Skills Required:
The ideal candidate has in-depth knowledge of, and experience working with the following methodologies and technologies:

• Languages: Golang, Typescript, Bash
• Protocols: GraphQL, gRPC, REST
• Methodologies: TDD, BDD, SCRUM, Clean Architecture, CQRS
• Fundamentals: Linux, Networking, Cloud Platforms, Docker/OCI Containers
• Tools: Docker Compose, GIT, Goland
• Frameworks/Libraries: Angular, Temporal, Flutter, ELK/Graylog/Loki, AMQP & Other Brokers