Senior Go Software Engineer

Ciklum

Remote, Spain

About the role

As a Senior Go Software Engineer, you'll become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. Together, we will work on the project for a Data Platform that sets the standard for AI infrastructure with a cloud and AI-native software solution that can be deployed anywhere. It transforms legacy data silos into data pipelines that make GPUs, AI, and other performance-intensive workloads run faster, work more efficiently, and consume less energy.

Responsibilities

Develop scalable web applications;
Design and implement complex backend features from conception through to deployment, ensuring they meet strategic business objectives;
Write clean, secure, highly testable. scalable and well-documented code that adheres to coding standards and best practices;
Perform comprehensive code reviews to ensure high code quality and facilitate knowledge sharing within the team;
Actively participate in multiple aspects of the SDLC, including planning, development, testing, and deployment;
Assist in upholding and enhancing the team's engineering and quality standards, and support team in adopting these;
Work closely with the product and other team interfaces to carry out quality feature delivery;
Engage in the technical interviewing process.

Requirements

We know that sometimes, you can’t tick every box. We would still love to hear from you if you think you’re a good fit!

Software Design:
- In-depth understanding of paradigms and principles such as SOLID, and GRASP;
- Proficient in documenting complex software solutions through comprehensive technical documentation and detailed diagrams.
Software development:
- 5 years of experience as a Go engineer;
- Extensive expertise in Go and knowledge of essential third-party libraries and tools;
- Deep understanding of Go's core internals, memory management, and concurrency mechanisms;
- Commercial experience working with Terraform;
- Commercial experience working with Kubernetes(K8S) and observability stack;
- Deep understanding of RDBMS and NoSQL systems, experience crafting high-performance queries, executing optimizations, and designing database structures.
Quality Assurance:
- Advanced proficiency with Go's built-in testing library and comparable testing frameworks and tools;
- Demonstrated commitment to continuous quality enhancement on projects through conducting code reviews, establishing quality metrics, and monitoring them.
Software Deployment:
- Experience in deploying and managing applications within cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud;
- Practical experience in utilizing application deployment patterns and tools;
- Hands-on experience configuring infrastructure with leading cloud service providers.

Desirable

Previous experience working on DevOps tasks
Practical commercial experience working with Python

Personal skills

Excellent communication skills, speaking and writing English fluently are a must
Accountability:
- Following the “said and done” principle;
- Accountability for the own scope of work.
Drive:
- Proactive in efforts to deliver results according to the expectations;
- Suggesting new ideas, looking for alternative solutions.
Self – development:
- Eager to learn and grow: curios, keen to constant self-development;
- Constantly improving own mastership.
Effective communication:
- Ability to express ideas, thoughts and questions simply, concisely and in a structured way.
Mentoring:
- Capability to assess tasks of less experienced colleagues;
- Skilled in constructive feedback providing.