Backend Engineer (Golang)
Summary
Builds scalable backend services in Go for a global food-delivery platform, collaborating with international teams to design features, optimize performance, and maintain high-quality code.
Responsibilities:
- Designing and implementing the features which will be used across the global platform.
- Collaborate within cross-functional, international teams to manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables, driving holistic solutions.
- Contributing to designing and evolving the system architecture to meet current needs and support future growth and technologies.
- Enforcing coding standards and conducting thorough code reviews to maintain high-quality codebase. Implement automated testing frameworks to catch bugs early and ensure software reliability.
- Good understanding and independent application of cloud environment, CI/CD, testing and validation.
- Independently applies design patterns and best practices in reliability management (resiliency, autoscaling, monitoring, alerting).
- Identifying and resolving complex technical issues in software and infrastructure, continuously optimising for performance and scalability.
What you need to be successful
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent education or practical experience.
- Overall 4-6 years of experience in backend development with mandatory proficiency in Golang.
- Hands-on experience with Design Patterns, Design Principles, Software Architecture and Algorithms and automated tests (unit, integration and functional).
- Understanding of microservices architecture and patterns, which is beneficial for designing scalable and maintainable systems would be a plus.
- Good knowledge of relational & distributed databases (You should be aware of normal forms, ACID, isolation levels, index anatomy & concepts of distributed databases).
- Understanding development lifecycle and collaborating with cross-functional and international agile teams.
- Excellent written and spoken English communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team and collaborate with stakeholders across various disciplines.