Senior Software Engineer, Backend

3-5 Years

Job Description

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 3-5 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.