Backend Software Engineer

OVERVIEW:

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