Senior Golang Developer

Job Purpose:
Developing and maintaining software products and solutions offered by the company.
Minimum education (essential):
Course or Certificate in Programming

Minimum education (desirable):
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Engineering (or similar)

Minimum applicable experience (years):
5 years working experience

Required nature of experience:
Software development

Skills and Knowledge (essential):

• API's
  • HTTP
  • Microservices
  • CORS
  • Authentication
  • Logging
  • RESTful
• Databases
  • Analyzing query performance
  • Writing queries
  • Designing DB schemas
  • Creating indexes
  • SQL
• Development
  • Multiprocessing (threading/synchronization/locks)
  • Git
  • Programming
  • CI/CD
  • Docker
  • Golang
  • Queues
• Debugging
  • Debug across multiple interconnected systems
  • Distributed tracing
  • Debug using application logs
  • Web browser console
  • Postman
• Testing
  • Performance Testing
  • Mocking
  • Integration Testing
  • Unit testing
• Cloud
  • Lambda
  • CloudFront
  • ECS
  • Backups
  • EC2
  • S3
  • AWS/ Azure
• Networking
  • DNS
  • Networking - IPs, ports, subnets
• Other
  • Experience with JavaScript / TypeScript
  • HTML

Skills and Knowledge (desirable):

• Databases
  • NoSQL
    
    

Analysis and Planning 30%

• Lead the application lifecycle (planning, design, development, deployment, ongoing maintenance), creating user stories and estimates, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Continuously research, evaluate, and integrate new technologies to optimize development efficiency and application performance.
• Plan and design well-structured, reusable application architecture.
• Introduce and implement best practices to ensure high-quality, maintainable systems.
• Participate in project planning by providing accurate estimates, contributing to requirement documentation, and assisting in work breakdown structures for the team.
• Lead the collection and documentation of user requirements, user story creation, estimation, and work plan development, ensuring clear communication of requirements.
• Effectively prioritize, and manage dependencies to ensure timely completion, and switch contexts effectively when the need arises.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to solve problems, make recommendations, and discuss best practices.
• Proactively identify and mitigate cross-functional and u
  
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