Golang Engineer
Posted 4 days ago by Pyramid Consulting, Inc
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Burgess Hill, England, United Kingdom
Summary: We're seeking a passionate Golang Software Engineer to contribute to a global Loyalty and Benefits platform. The role involves working within a Scrum team to enhance features and collaborate with other engineers, utilizing modern technologies like Golang, Kafka, and Docker. The ideal candidate should possess strong technical skills and a willingness to learn, with experience in back-end microservice architecture. This position offers opportunities for innovation and professional growth in a dynamic environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and enhance features in the Account domain of the Loyalty and Benefits platform.
- Collaborate with other engineers to share knowledge and best practices.
- Work within a Scrum framework to deliver business functions and customer journeys.
- Implement automated testing throughout the CI/CD pipeline.
Key Skills:
- Experience in at least one back-end type safe programming language (Golang preferred).
- Familiarity with back-end micro-service architecture and communication (REST, asynchronous messaging).
- Experience working in a Scrum environment.
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science or equivalent work experience.
- Understanding of test-driven development and software engineering methodologies.
- Knowledge of technologies such as Kafka, Postgres, Git, Docker, and GraphQL.
- Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and version control systems.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Burgess Hill
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Title: Golang Engineer
Location: Burgess Hill, UK (3 days onsite a week)
Project Type: FTE
Role Summary: We're looking for an enthusiastic, diligent Golang Software Engineer to work on the global Loyalty and Benefits platform. The candidate should have excellent soft skills, strong technical ability with an extensive passion to learn. A modern microservice-based Loyalty and Benefits platform, designed to be able to handle all aspects of the Loyalty and Benefits customer experience, globally. Built using modern tools such as Golang, Kafka and Docker, there is ample opportunity to drive innovation and grow knowledge and skills as an Engineer. As a Software Engineer on an Scrum team, you will be building and enhancing features in the Account domain. You will also coordinate and work with other Engineers across the platform to share knowledge and principals.
Required: Demonstrable experience in at least one back-end type safe programming language (Golang Preferred but other experience can be considered) . Comfortable/experienced with back-end micro-service architecture and communication, specifically REST and asynchronous messaging services (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ etc.) Comfortable/experience within a Scrum framework working with as part of a team to deliver business functions and customer journeys that are tested and automated throughout the CICD pipeline to production.
Desired: Bachelors Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience. Experience in professional software development. Solid understanding of test-driven development, including unit, component, functional, system integration and regression tests. Knowledge of software engineering methodology (Agile, incl Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Waterfall). Knowledge of any or all of the following technologies is desired: Kafka, Postgres, Golang, Git, gRPC, Docker, GraphQL. Experienced in continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD) and continuous testing (CT), including tools such as Jenkins, Rally and/or JIRA and version control such as GIT or SVN.