Golang Developer
Posted 2 weeks ago by Ampstek
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Burgess Hill, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Golang Developer role requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, along with over six years of experience in Golang development. The position emphasizes application design, software development, and testing within an Agile framework, focusing on REST API development and micro-service architecture. Candidates should possess strong analytical skills and a willingness to learn new technologies while effectively communicating with business partners.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and develop applications using the Golang development stack.
- Implement test-driven development practices, including various testing methodologies.
- Collaborate with small to medium-sized teams using Git for version control.
- Design and develop REST APIs for high volume clients.
- Work with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Engage in back-end micro-service architecture and asynchronous messaging services.
- Utilize relational and NoSQL databases in application development.
- Employ continuous integration tools and automated build/test frameworks.
- Communicate effectively with internal and external business partners.
Key Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 6+ years of experience in Golang development.
- Experience in application design, software development, and testing.
- Understanding of test-driven development and various testing methodologies.
- Experience with Git and Agile methodologies.
- Knowledge of REST API design and development.
- Familiarity with container orchestration technologies.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Proficiency in continuous integration tools.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Effective communication skills.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Burgess Hill
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Minimum Qualifications:
- Position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field followed by 6+ years of experience in Golang development stack.
- Experience in application design, software development, and testing, preferably in an Agile environment.
- Solid understanding of test-driven development, including unit, component, functional, system integration and regression tests.
- Experience working with Git on small to medium sized teams.
- Experience designing and developing REST APIs for high volume clients.
- Experience with open-source frameworks is a plus especially maintaining or contributing to open source projects!
- Experience with container and container orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Comfortable/experienced with back-end micro-service architecture and communication, specifically REST and asynchronous messaging services (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ etc.)
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, Couchbase, or Cassandra is a plus.
- Experience with continuous integration tools (Github Actions, Jenkins, Gitlab CI) a plus.
- Experience with automated build and test frameworks a plus.
- A proven hunger to learn new technologies and translate them into working software.
- Experience with Atlassian software development and collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.), a plus.
- Strong ability to develop unique, outside the box ideas
- Strong analytical, problem-solving/quantitative skills
- Willing to take risks, experiment, and share fresh perspectives
- Aptitude for learning and applying programming concepts.
- Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners.