Backend Engineer (Golang)

Backend Software Engineer – 6 months contract – UK(Remote) – £48 - £54/Hour

Must Have

• AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• golang
• GraphQL
• PostgreSQL
• Python

You will work with the existing engineering team and help contribute to the direction of the projection and team. The existing team is a Product team that is building backend for user-facing product. You will help understand, analyze technical problems, performance isues, and help with legacy migrations when necessary. You need to be able to understand and troubleshoot data intensive systems.

Engage in the team's organizational processes, such as planning, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews, to ensure effective collaboration and feedback. Collaborate with product managers and designers to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions. Proactively identify and address potential technical issues and bottlenecks.

The following skills are necessary for this work:

• System design. This requires a good understanding of how the systems work, with a particular focus on latency and scalability.
• Development. Our systems are mainly in Python and Go. We are also migrating a few of our endpoints from Python to Go. Skills in testing, SOLID and design patterns are a must.
• Systems architecture. We make extensive use of Kubernetes, Kafka, and Postgres, with internal tools for metrics/alerting and Grafana for dashboarding. We also use Redis in few of our services.
• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute product and business strategies and build novel products and features that our users will love.
• Communicate effectively, within the team and across disciplines. Work closely with product managers and designers to craft compelling user experiences.
• Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight. Help scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs.