Go Engineer/Golang Engineer

Job Role: Senior Engineer (Golang)

Location: Central London

Work Type: Hybrid (3 days work from office)

Permanent/Fixed Term Employment

Role

• Take personal responsibility for creating and maintaining microservices, primarily in Golang.
• Iterate design and build to solve bugs, improve performance, and add new features.
• Containerise your services and make ready for deployment onto a k8s environment using helm charts.
• Ensure resilience and reliability of services.
• Develop complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems. Apply that understanding in code.
• Write tests with high coverage including unit, contract, e2e and integration.
• Version control code with git and build, test and deploy using ci/cd pipelines.
• Build and test remotely on your own machine and deploy to low level envs.
• Review team members code, identifying errors and improving performance and readability. Drive code design and process trade-off discussions within team when required.
• Report status and manage risks within your primary application/service.
• Perform demos and join acceptance discussions with analysts, developers and product owners.
• Assist in task planning and review as part of a sprint based workflow.
• Estimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements.

All About You

• Demonstrable ability to write Python/Golang and SQL in a production context. You are happy to learn new programming languages and frameworks as necessary.
• Experience with large volumes of data and high throughput, low latency solutions.
• You have experience with, and are interested in, contemporary approaches to service design, including the use of containers and container orchestration technologies, streaming data platforms, APIs and in-memory/NoSQL stores.
• You are comfortable working in a devops based software development workflow, including building, testing, and continuous integration/deployment. You are also happy to be evolve along with the development process and contribute to its success.
• You are comfortable communicating with a range of stakeholders, including subject matter experts, data scientists, software engineers and enterprise devops and security professionals.