What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Golang Engineer position at Vaco by Highspring?
Core Responsibilities:
- Guide and participate in the implementation of APIs per specifications developed in conjunction with technical and product teams; define and implement solutions conforming to software development, stability, and reliability best practices
- Break down complex projects into simple systems that can be effectively built and maintained by less experienced engineers
- Play a key role in delivering the company's multi-year tech strategy and roadmap, focused on writing services with Golang, as the company continues its shift from a monolithic code base to a distributed computing and service-oriented architecture
- Provide oversight, coaching, and guidance by participating in code and design reviews
- Support technical innovation and lead the creation, continual refinement, and active enforcement of engineering standards
- Be an embodiment of 'kind culture', fostering and promoting a positive environment based on empowerment, honesty, and empathy
- Design and implementation of network-based APIs (RESTful, gRPC, GraphQL), particularly in a public cloud environment such as AWS
- 4 years in an engineering role with deep programming focus in Golang
- Experienced with scalable, fault tolerant, highly available, and secure implementations of RESTful APIs
- Strong knowledge of stream-based architectures, leveraging Kafka
- Experience containerizing and continuously deploying applications into a Kubernetes environment managed by CI pipelines and Helm charts
- Strong knowledge of at least one database platform including performance tuning and data modeling (ex. Postgres, MSSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, MySQL) as well as modern cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, etc.)
- Experience utilizing Infrastructure as code, leveraging tools like Terraform
- Ability and experience working in a fast paced and rapidly growing environment
- Experience using Datadog APM and distributed tracing for application monitoring (preferred)
- Experience using EKS for monitoring and managing Kubernetes workloads (preferred)
- Familiarity with PHP or modern frontend development frameworks such as React (preferred)
- Experience instrumenting systems with logging, tracing and metrics (preferred)
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual's skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company's 401(k) retirement plan.
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Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.
