Senior Back-End Software Engineer (Golang)

Roberts Recruiting, LLC; Boston (MA); On-site; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Healthcare HMO & PPO

Stock options

401(k)

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement scalable web services for high-volume platforms. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in distributed systems and micro-services, with experience in technologies such as Linux, AWS, and MySQL. This opportunity offers competitive compensation and benefits, including healthcare and stock options.

Qualifications

• Experience developing high-volume, high-performance distributed applications.
• Familiarity with multi-datacenter distributed computing technologies.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP, sockets, and messaging systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-availability services and micro-services.
• Develop core platform services and back-end APIs.
• Improve performance and maintain stability.

Skills

Go

C/C++

Swift

Objective-C

Agile development

Tools

Linux

AWS

MySQL

Cassandra

Job description

Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in the challenge of pushing high-volume consumer and business platforms to their next level. We are looking for an individual with a strong background in designing and developing scalable web services and micro-services, who has experience designing and implementing features for large‑scale systems used by millions of mobile users per day, and who has significant experience with high‑volume internet services. The candidate must be familiar with current scalable multi‑datacenter distributed computing technologies on commodity servers and micro‑services. Our current infrastructure uses the latest technologies: Linux, AWS, Cassandra, MySQL, AMQP, Redis, Ruby on Rails and Go. We use an agile development process.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high‑availability services and micro‑services that scale to millions of requests per day.
• Develop core platform services and back‑end APIs.
• Strong interest in developing quality infrastructure and process.
• Create speed, improve performance and maintain stability within the development life cycle.
• Be a team player with a winning attitude.

Requirements

• Go, C/C++, Swift or Objective‑C
• Experience developing and maintaining high‑volume/high‑performance distributed applications.
• TCP/IP, sockets, messaging systems (AMQP or others)
• Linux, Ubuntu/Debian, VMs, Apache, Nginx, Thin, RabbitMQ, AWS, EC2, S3, RDS, MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis, Hadoop, HBase, Memcached

Desired Experience

• Ruby/Rails, Java/C# and enterprise systems experience.
• JavaScript, HTML5, JSON, XML, etc.
• Working closely with dev‑ops, knowledge of puppet, Linux containers, software deployment, monitoring, failover.
• Caching services such as CloudFront/CDN, Akamai, etc.

Comp & Benefits

• Competitive compensation based on experience level
• Healthcare HMO & PPO
• Stock options and 401(k)
• Flexible spending and transit reimbursement accounts