Backend Developer - Golang  

General Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing new features for our backend
• Supporting and maintaining existing codebase
• Writing clean, maintainable and efficient code
• Contributing in all phases of the development life cycle in an agile environment
• Driving continuous adoption and integration of relevant new technologies

Backend Engineer Key Responsibilities:

• Works on complex feature sets and breaks them down into smaller tasks in order to speed up customer value delivery
• Having a great balance between pace and perfection. Means that, considering the trade-off between the total time spent in creating the perfect code, versus delivering other efficient products
• Identify and help other engineers to resolve blockers and support the deliverable
• Leading the deliverable of an end-to-end complex feature
• Provide technical advice and involve in technical decisions that impact other teams or company at large
• Research and propose new technology or engineering practice

Technical Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or min 5 years working experience in Backend programming environment
• Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms
• Knowledge of common Goroutine and channel patterns
• Experience with the full site of Go frameworks and tools, including:
• Dependency management tools such as Godep, Sltr, etc.
• Go’s templating language
• Go’s code generation tools, such as Stringer
• Popular Go web frameworks, such as Revel
• Router packages, such as Gorilla Mux
• Ability to write clean and effective Godoc comments
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)

General Requirements As Engineer:

• Having an agility mindset, working previously with agile development framework are preferred
• Strong problem solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done
• Excellent in prioritisation
• Basic written and verbal communication skills