Senior Backend Engineer-Golang

Apply before August 31st 2024 Full Time open to budget

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Backend Developer with a minimum of 8-10 years ofexperience and strong expertise in Golang as a Primary Language. The ideal candidate willbe responsible for designing and developing robust REST APIs and web services, creatingreusable frameworks, and maintaining high-quality documentation. The candidate shouldalso have a deep understanding of cloud platforms, DevOps practices, and the ability to workcollaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop RESTful APIs and web services.

• Create reusable frameworks and components to support global delivery needs.

• Documents work thoroughly and engage in quality testing/validation for changes orimproved features before release.

• Troubleshoot issues and debug codebases efficiently.

• Maintain and improve existing codebases and peer-review code changes.

• Mentor and provide guidance to junior developers.

• Conduct code reviews to maintain code quality and standards.

• Work on AWS cloud platform, including EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).

• Ensure API layer aspects such as security, monitoring, analytics, and throttling areeffectively managed.

• Follow all best practices while designing the software

• Work closely with Leads and team members to meet all project deliverables andmilestone dates.

• Communicate effectively with team members and suppliers, fostering a collaborativeworking environment through asynchronous communication.

• Adapt to new technologies, tools, and processes as needed by the organization.

• Debug and resolve backend issues and bugs.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience in backend development

• Proficiency with Golang is a must have and at least one other language C#, C++ or Python.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with knowledge of algorithms, datastructures, and complexity analysis.

•Solid experience with cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure), DevOps, cloud engineering,architecture, and SaaS.

• Proficient in clean architecture, API design, debugging, profiling, and performanceoptimization.

• Experience designing and implementing large-scale distribution systems.

• In-depth understanding of networking and internet workings.

• Experience with version control systems, such as Git.

• Strong knowledge of GitHub multi-branching and trunk-based development strategies.

• Good grasp of how AWS services like S3, Lambda, SQS, and CloudFront work.

• Familiarity with GCP services such as Cloud Buckets and Cloud Functions.

• Possess extensive knowledge about databases like MySQL and PosgreSQL

• Possess knowledge about other databases like Redis, Timescale databases, etc

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

• Understanding of Agile methodologies and software development life cycle.

• Knowledge of real-time communication technologies such as gRPC and WebSockets.

o Implement and manage before WebSocket or gRPC-based communication forefficient, low-latency, and scalable service-to-service communication.

• Proficiency in writing unit tests.

• Knowledge of various authentication strategies(e.g., JWT, OAuth, SSO, Basic auth,sessionauth).

• Strong knowledge of web security principles, including CORS, HTTPS, Content SecurityPolicy, and OWASP Security Risks.

• Proficiency in using Dev Tools for debugging and performance optimization.

• Understanding of how integrations work and has done multiple integrations withpayment systems, analytical systems and similar before.

• Understands how containerization works and used, developed and maintainedDockerfiles to ensure consistent and reliable deployment across different environments

• Understands how frontend and mobile application works for better implementation ofthe backend architecture.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Knowledge about SAP systems and worked on integration with them, especially the AssetManagement Modules.

• Understands how OCR (Optical Character Recognition) works.

• Good knowledge of mathematics, particularly geometry.

• Familiarity with photogrammetry.

• Eagerness to learn or experience AI, ML, and LLMs.

• Proficiency in additional programming languages such as C#, Python, and C++