Go Software Engineer

Description:

Major Purpose:

• Works on a product team and supports product design by planning its work, coordinating with others, and writing and testing code to deliver functionality for the complete product or products it supports.
• This level designs complex/significant parts of a system/sub-system or works on a complete product of a broad scope and solves well-defined problems with little guidance.
• May act as a work lead, providing technical coaching to other engineers and support personnel; Recognized as an expert user of critical technology; develops new software functionality for product development.

Major Duties:

• Develops, codes, configures, and tests programs and systems.
• Evaluates and implements enhancement design solutions to improve cost, quality, and performance of software applications.
• Analyzes assignments and determines software specifications that must be fulfilled to achieve objectives.
• Executes necessary documentation, as directed, or needed. ? Collaborates with other relevant stakeholders and team members to ensure that features meet business needs.
• Follows industry-standard agile software design methodology for development and documentation.
• Mentors junior software engineers on the team.

Skills, Abilities, Knowledge:

• Ability to analyze, translate, and define business requirements into technical solutions.
• Excellence in verbal and written communication forms with emphasis on persuasive communication, tact and negotiation.
• Ability to apply engineering principles and concepts for designs.
• Ability to manage many competing priorities/requests in a fast-paced environment

Education:

• Degree in an Engineering/Technology discipline or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)
• Degree in an Information Technology discipline or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)

Work Experience:

• Previous experience in programming/software development. (4 - 7 years)
• Software development processes experience. (4 - 7 years)
• Product design, test and/or analysis experience. (4 - 7 years)
• Participating in Agile Development (4 - 7 years)
• Experience working in an Agile Environment (4 - 7 years)

Additional Details

• The worker should be comfortable working in a paired programming environment and be an excellent communicator. High priority given to soft skills such as self-driven and takes initiative.
• Works on a Platform Engineering team and supports aligned product teams by planning its work, coordinating with others, and developing functionality to enable teams to be successful in quality and reliability.
• Most important technical skills are strong programming experience in Golang with experience in Kubernetes, AWS, OpenTelemetry, Terraform.
• (3 - 6 years) Experience in programming/software development (Go (70%), Java (10%), Rust (10%), Python (5%), Terraform (5%))
• (3 years) Experience hosting services in AWS cloud technologies
• (3 years) Experience deploying and/or managing EKS/Kubernetes clusters
• (3 years) Ability to manage many competing priorities/requests in a fast-paced environment
• (3 years) Excellence in verbal and written communication forms with tact and negotiation
• Experience with Datadog and/or Grafana preferred