Golang Backend Developer

About the position

We're looking for a talented Go [Golang] backend software developer/engineer who will be a crucial part of our 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. Individual needs to be highly motivated team player, showing initiative, ownership and drive for continuous improvement. We are looking for someone local to Plano, TX and can come to office 4 days/week.

Responsibilities

• 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 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.