Senior Software Engineer (Golang)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Healthcare HMO & PPO

Stock options and 401k

Flexible Spending and Transit Reimbursement

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement scalable services for high-volume platforms. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Golang and experience with distributed applications. The role offers competitive compensation, healthcare benefits, stock options, and a flexible working environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Golang and distributed applications.
• Ability to develop and maintain high volume, scalable services.
• Familiarity with current scalable computing technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high availability services for millions of requests.
• Develop core platform services and back-end APIs.
• Improve performance within the development life cycle.

Skills

Golang

High performance distributed applications

Messaging Systems (AMQP, SQS, or others)

Linux

Performance optimization

Tools

AWS

Cassandra

MySQL

Redis

RabbitMQ

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-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

• Golang. C/C++ candidates will be considered.
• Experience developing and maintaining high volume/high performance distributed applications.
• Messaging Systems (AMQP, SQS, or others)
• Linux, Ubuntu/Debian, VMs Apache, Nginx, Thin, RabbitMQ AWS, EC2, S3, RDS, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis, 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/CDNs, Akamai, etc.

Comp & Benefits

• Competitive comp based on experience level
• Healthcare HMO & PPO
• Stock options and 401k
• Flexible Spending and Transit Reimbursement Accounts