Senior Go Backend Engineer — Scale High‑Volume Microservices

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

Senior Back-End Software Engineer (Golang)

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-service,who has experience designing and implementing features for large-scale systems used by millions of mobile users per day, and who hassignificant experience with high volume internet services. Candidatemust befamiliar with current scalablemulti-datacenterdistributed 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 and 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, RDS, Mysql, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis, Hadoop, HBase, Memcache

Desired Experience:

• Ruby/Rails, Java/C# and Enterprise systems experience.
• Working closely with dev-ops, knowledge of puppet, linux containers, software deployment, monitoring, failover.
• Caching services such as CloudFront/CDNs, Akamai, etc.
• Competitive comp based on experience level
• Stock options and 401k
• Flexible Spending and Transit Reimbursement Accounts