Senior Software Engineer, Backend

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform: Design and write Go code to enhance the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of services.

Collaborate with the engineering team to develop new architectures aimed at scale and performance, and participate in code and design reviews to uphold.

Contribute to service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization.

Work closely with the infrastructure team to build and scale backend services, and perform root cause analysis during investigations.

Proactively debug and resolve production incidents during on-call shifts, and provide technical guidance and mentorship to peers.

Collaborate with product and business teams to define and prototype feature specifications, while ensuring site reliability

The Essential Skills You Will Need: At least 7 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree, or an advanced degree.

Proficiency in Golang, with a deep understanding of its syntax, semantics, standard libraries, concurrency features, and experience in optimizing applications.

Experience with RDBMS technologies like MySQL and PostgreSQL, including expertise in database performance, query tuning, and reliability.

Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, with knowledge in designing scalable, internet-scale microservices.

Relevant certifications are a plus.

Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, along with experience in automating infrastructure.

Strong skills in development practices such as TDD, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery, utilizing tools like GIT, Jenkins, and unit testing frameworks.