Go Software Engineer

CTC; Urbandale (IA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

CTC in Urbandale, IA is seeking a software engineer to join a platform engineering team. You will plan work, coordinate with others, and write and test code to deliver robust features for the product portfolio.

Responsibilities include designing complex components, mentoring juniors, and ensuring software solutions meet business goals within an Agile framework.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering/Technology or Information Technology.
• 4–7 years of software development experience.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies.
• Paired programming experience and strong communication.

Responsibilities

• Develops, codes, configures, and tests programs and systems.
• Evaluates and implements enhancement design to improve cost, quality, and performance.
• Analyzes assignments to define software specifications.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to ensure features meet business needs.
• Follows agile software design practices and documents accordingly.
• Mentors junior software engineers on the team.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

AWS

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Java

Rust

Python

Paired programming

Agile development

Communication

Education

Engineering/Technology degree

Information Technology degree

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Go

Java

Rust

Python

Job description

• 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)
• 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