The Senior Backend Engineer will deliver projects, ensure code quality, lead collaborations, and mentor junior members, requiring 4-6 years of experience.
Responsibilities
- Successfully and independently deliver large-size projects, including scoping, planning, design, development, testing, rollout and maintenance.
- Write clean, concise, modular and well-tested code. Review code from junior engineers and provide constant and constructive feedback.
- Contribute to building and maintaining documentation related to the team's projects.
- Create high quality, loosely coupled, reliable and extensible technical designs. Actively understand trade-offs between different designs and apply the solution suited to the situation / requirements.
- Participate in the team's on-call rotation and lead the troubleshooting and resolution process of any issues related to the services/ work sub-streams/ products owned by your team.
- Constantly improve the health and quality of the services / code they work on, through set practices and new initiatives.
- Lead the cross-team collaborations for the projects they work on.
- Support hiring and on-boarding activities along with coaching and developing junior members in your team, and contribute to knowledge sharing.
Must have:
- 4-6 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing, and deploying small to mid-scale applications in any language or stack. 2+ years of recent and active software development experience.
- Good understanding of Golang. Able to use Go concurrency patterns and contribute to building reusable Go components.
- Strong experience in designing loosely coupled, reliable and extensible distributed services.
- Great understanding of clean architecture, S.O.L.I.D principles, and event-driven architecture. Experience with message broker services like SQS, Kafka, etc.
- Strong data modeling experience in Relational databases.
- Strong cross-team collaboration and communication skills.
- Self-driven with a passion for learning new things quickly, solving challenging problems, and the drive to get better with the support from the manager.
Nice to have:
- A bachelor degree in computer science, information technology, or equivalent education.
- Experience with NoSQL databases.
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Top Skills
Go
Kafka
Nosql Databases
Relational Databases
Sqs
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