Senior Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Backend software engineer to join our platform engineering team, working in a squad and will be focused on key business priorities, helping build a successful brand and utilising industry best tools (Golang, Event Driven Architecture and AWS Serverless technologies such as; Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, DynamoDB) to build scalable solutions to enable business expansion.

• Leading technical implementations of projects to help your team deliver high-quality work on time
• Using Golang to design, build and maintain APIs, services and integrations
• Implementing 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
• Mentoring and coaching other engineers
• Improve engineering standards and best practices

• Strong experience in software engineering and writing production code in Golang or another strict typed language
• Experience using cloud based serverless services (such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Run or Azure Functions)
• 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
• Experience designing, building and maintaining scalable APIs
• An understanding of Event Driven Architecture concepts
• Experience using Git and understand branching strategies
• Experience implementing quality and testing best practices within the services you produce, such as unit testing and contract testing
• Commercial awareness and a creative problem solver with the ability to think laterally and understand the cost and value drivers within a competitive business environment

15 December