Senior Back End Engineer (Golang) - Remote

This role requires working in AEST timezone - 11am AEST to 6pm AEST

We're looking for someone who has a passion for technology and continuous improvement, and enjoys a collaborative approach to software development. You'll help us scale to meet the demands of a million-plus global customers and you'll help decide on the tools and approaches we use.

As a Senior Software Engineer well into your career, we know you're exceptional at what you do. You take pride in being someone that more junior members look up to, but you're still eager to learn and hone in on skills as a Senior Software Engineer. That's why we're placing a heavy emphasis on leaning on your expertise to take on a high level of responsibility while being a role model and mentor to others on the team.

What You'll Do

1. Define and evolve the team’s vision, mission, and strategy with leadership. As well as define, measure, and own key metrics for the performance of your functional area.
2. Be an advocate and evangelist for our technical offerings
3. Work with a team of distributed, diverse engineers spread across remote locations across Australia, Vietnam and India.
4. Partner with peers in engineering to craft a world-class developer experience.
5. Build and continuously improve Back End Developer Tooling, workflows & infrastructures for our scaling Engineering group.
6. Implement and maintain features, improve performance and quality of engineering productivity and development loop
7. Use your exceptional analytical skills to break down complex requirements into milestones, and lead a team of expert engineers to execute towards your estimated deadlines.
8. Help mentor other engineers to develop new skills and advance in their careers.
9. Participate in the interviews in hiring and on-boarding exceptional engineering talent

What You Bring To The Role

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• Minimum 3+ years of relevant experience in Go (Golang) with a strong desire to learn new languages.
• Minimum 3+ years in distributed event driven systems architecture and cloud providers’ offerings (AWS/GCP).
• Have experience in designing and building cloud-native applications. Experience in Kubernetes is a plus
• Experience in creating platform level cloud native system architecture with low latency, high throughput, and highly available.
• Experience in NoSQL databases and distributed messaging systems
• Understands modern software development techniques such as object orientation, test driven development, micro-services and continuous delivery.
• Worked with GraphQL, API Gateways, Load Balancers, CDN, WAF and security patterns.
• Worked with monitoring solutions such as Prometheus, Elastic, Kibana, Grafana, Jaeger
• Designing solutions that scale and perform for millions of users.