Lead Golang Engineer

We are looking an experienced Lead Golang Engineer who will be able to bring both their experience and knowledge into the team but most importantly, their passion and exuberance for development to the product. 

Here at MachShip, we're disrupting the freight industry and building the world's premier cloud based Freight Management System. Our core product is a SaaS application using a containerised, micro-service based architecture hosted within Kubernetes. We are heavily invested in both our development team and the latest technology. 

We are a young Australian Company with over 25 developers that is looking for extremely experienced Go developer to lead our backend team. We cultivate personal development and team work here at MachShip. You would be joining a team and contributing to the team's agile sprints and working together to reach the sprint goals and deliverables. Our office is based in Richmond, Melbourne, with a hybrid, flexible work from home model.

We have several core systems written in Go and are currently building exciting, new greenfield projects that will help our platform scale. In this role you will be leading the team and working with our technical stakeholders to create some truly ground breaking applications. 

Core skills:

•  Extensive commercial experience in development, primarily in Golang
• Track record leading small teams for substantial projects, following industry best practices
• Proven experience building, releasing and maintaining a commercial product
• Ability to set and maintain professional standards for the entire team.

Our ideal candidate would be:

• Someone with a high degree of communication skills enabling them to take control and ownership of the product
• Someone that relishes the responsibility and ensures delivery of major features that have been assigned to them and their team, from concept, design, development, testing and through to deployment.
• Someone who can completely understand the platform’s technologies and drive improvements and innovations from a technical level.

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with React and Typescript technologies.

We're looking to hire for this position in our growing team very quickly, so don't wait - if you feel you are the right person for this job, send through your resume and cover letter. On your cover letter, please address each of the key skills, why you would be perfect for the role and what you would bring to the team.  

Being a member of the MachShip team you will:

• Be part of an agile, innovating and energetic team that prioritises pushing the boundaries and working with the latest technologies. We have daily stand-ups, fortnightly sprints and work within an agile environment
• Develop your skill set with the latest frameworks including Kubernetes, GraphQL, Temporal.io and Cloud infrastructure. 
• Work alongside amazing developers who are also at the top of their field. We value your opinion and all voices are considered when building our product.
• We want you to be the best you can be. We have monthly one on ones and work with you to reach both your personal and professional career goals.
• Have the potential to contribute during work hours to the open source projects that we utilise, many of them written in Go. 
• Be encouraged to share ideas and have a critical input into the development process.

Note for recruiters - we are not interested in your services, please do not contact.