OVERVIEW:
We're looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our platform engineering team, working in a squad and will be focused on key business priorities, helping build a successful brand and utilising industry best tools (Golang, Event Driven Architecture and AWS Serverless technologies such as; Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, DynamoDB) to build scalable solutions to enable business expansion.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:
- Working on features and bugs to help your team deliver high-quality work on time
- Using Golang to build and maintain APIs, services and integrations
- Implement event driven solutions to support critical business processes
- Creating, maintaining and developing CI/CD pipelines
- Building scalable and valuable software leveraging AWS Serverless technologies such as; Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, DynamoDB
- Focus on creating testable, maintainable and scalable code, following Tech standards
- Following an Agile development approach
- Maintaining existing services, ensuring a high standard of observability and proactive monitoring, in addition to responding to incidents. (Especially during peak sale periods which is critical to business success!)
WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
Essential Criteria:
- Must have experience in software engineering and writing production code in Golang or another strict typed language in a commercial engineering environment
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Experience building or maintaining scalable API's
- Experience using cloud based platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure)
- Experience using Git
- Experience implementing quality and testing best practices within the services you produce, such as unit testing and contract testing
Preferred Skills:
- Experience using cloud based serverless services (such as AWS Lamba, Google Cloud Run or Azure Functions)
- Must have a demonstrable knowledge building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Experience designing, setting up databases as well as have an understanding of relational and non-relational approaches
- An understanding of Event Driven Architecture concepts
- Experience understanding branching strategies
CLOSING DATE:
15th December