Senior GoLang developer with Kubernetes and Docker -6months-Burgess Hill

Kirtana consulting is looking for Senior GoLang developer with Kubernetes and Docker for 6months rolling contract in London.

Job description:

Role Title: Senior GoLang developer

Minimum years of experience: 5-6 years (flexible if the candidate has all necessary technical skills)

- experience on mandatory relevant skills (Golang, Kubernetes, Docker) of 4+ years
- total experience to 5/6+

Required Core Skills:

Development experience with:
1. strong in Golang
2. Kubernetes
4. Docker

Good to Have Skills: Python, exposure to GCP, REST API, Kafka, NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, Couchbase, or Cassandra

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION:

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 (eg, 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.

Preferred Additional:

- Knowledge of payments industry

- Experience with coding skills across a variety of distributed technologies

- Experience with a broad range of software languages and payments technologies