We’re looking for a talented Go [Golang] backend software developer/engineer who will be a crucial part of our client is Plano, Texas’ software team. The selected candidate will be working in a highly iterative agile environment to deliver quality, high-performing products. They will write scalable, robust, and easy-to-maintain code. The successful candidate needs to be highly motivated team player, showing initiative, ownership and drive for continuous improvement. You must be local to Plano, Texas and able to come to the Plano office 4 days per week.
What you’ll be doing:
- Write well defined and tested code
- Document work and engage in quality testing/validation for changes or improved features before releasing to the customer
- Maintain and improve existing codebases and peer review code changes
- Solve complex problems around connected vehicle technology for mobility and telematics
- Solve challenging distributed systems problems around scalability, reliability, low latency, high availability with client for global app development
- Document requirements and specifications
- Troubleshoot issues and debug codebases
- Adapt new technologies, tools, processes from the organization as needed
- Work with Product Owner’s and team members to meet all project deliverables and milestone dates
- Communicate well with team members and suppliers and work collaboratively
Requirements
- At least 3-5 years of experience working with the Go programming language.
- Hands-on experience working with protobufs and gRPC.
- Understanding of Go Routine and Channel patterns.
- Knowledge in Test Driven Development and CICD best practices.
- Familiarity with MongoDB or other non-SQL databases.
- Experience working with Kafka to produce and consume messages.
- Hands-on experience in AWS services: Secrets-Manager, SQS, SNS, Lambdas.
- Knowledge utilizing containers such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Hands-on experience with GIT, VS-Code (or other IDE), JIRA & Confluence.
- Experience utilizing Datadog for tracing and debugging.
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science/engineering OR Bachelor’s degree with coding education.
- Strong written and communication skills with proven fluency in English.