Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Responsibilities

Design and write with the cutting edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Digibank’s range of services.; Work with the engineering team to explore and create new design / architectures geared towards scale and performance.; Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.; Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization.; Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications.; Work closely with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations.; Design, build, analyse and fix large-scale systems.; Learn full stack performance tuning and optimization.; Debug and modify complex production software.; You will develop features as defined in the product or engineering specifications.; You will author specifications documents as per functional requirements provided by the product team.; You will help to mentor any junior engineers about the best-practices in software development.; You will have service ownership of several microservices in the squad.

Requirements

You can be a good coder in any language (C++, C, Java, Scala, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.JS, C# etc.), but willing to work on Golang.; Has at least 5 years of experience as a backend developer.; A good knowledge of programming design patterns (Singleton, Factory, etc).; A solid understanding of the concept of clean code and SOLID principles.; A good understanding of the clean architecture principles.; Familiarity in developing services that serve HTTP Restful API, consume and publish messages from and to any stream platform like Kafka or Messaging platform like SQS.; Familiarity with containerization (Kubernetes and Dockerfile).; Familiarity with any cloud deployment service, e.g AWS.; Good understanding of CI/CD concepts.; An exposure to Microservice architecture pattern, and have been involved in development of a microservice from design stage to deployment stage.