Staff Software Engineer - Golang

We're looking for a seasoned Staff Software Engineer to be a technical cornerstone of our engineering team, with a deep focus on Go (Golang). In this role, you'll architect and build the high-performance, concurrent backend services that power our products. You will be a hands-on leader (roughly 70% coding), responsible for managing project priorities, driving technical specifications, and mentoring team members.

Responsibilities

• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Lead the gathering of functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and project & test planning.
• Present designs along with trade-offs to the technical forum.
• Demonstrate a high operational excellence mindset.
• Resolve defects/bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches.
• Partner effectively with all team members to deliver against commitments.
• Work cross-functionally with various internal teams: product management, various product lines, or business units to drive forward results.
• Show a passion for growing and applying technical skills in service to customers.
• Roughly 70% hands-on coding.
• Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, and/or Extreme Programming methodologies.
• Result-oriented mindset with an affinity to produce high-quality code.
• Have a customer-focused mindset.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years working as a software engineer, ideally using Agile/Scrum.
• Extensive hands-on experience and deep expertise in Go (Golang).
• Strong understanding of Go's concurrency primitives, including Goroutines and Channels.
• Solid grasp of software engineering fundamentals and their practical application.
• An understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Strong working knowledge of API development standards like REST/GraphQL protocol, pagination, throttling, caching, and routing mechanisms.
• Solid knowledge of algorithms and design patterns.
• Proven ability to balance work on multiple projects in parallel.
• Ability to learn quickly, pivot, visualize, and own a feature end-to-end.
• Strong end-to-end testing mindset and working knowledge of Front-End and Back-End testing techniques.
• Experience developing on Cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) and with containerization/orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience working with mature codebases.
• An understanding of unit testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD) in a Go environment.
• "Self-starter" attitude and ability to make decisions independently.
• Helpful, can-do attitude and a willingness to take ownership of problems.
• Strong desire to learn and grow.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a history of superb delivery against assigned tasks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Outstanding partnership skills.
• Experience in leading and mentoring Junior Team members.