Senior Golang Developer

We are looking for a Senior Golang Developer who is analytical, pays meticulous attention to detail, is highly organized, and has excellent communication skills. Working on the project you will be responsible for the core engineering of a highly scalable and distributed platform for one of the largest world-leading mapping providers.

As a key member of this team, you will be working in collaboration with a team of worldwide recognized experts. This is an excellent opportunity to become a key contributor to the project while creating the next generation of network-centric distributed and scalable architectures. You’ll be a part of a bright engineering team that has open communication, empowerment, innovation, teamwork, and customer-centric culture.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the design and development of high-performance business applications, from requirements analysis to production
• Constantly improve software quality (evaluate and incorporate new libraries, tools, and technologies; code reviews; refactoring; testing; etc.)
• Analyze and improve application performance
• Search for simple and robust solutions to complex tasks
• Work in an Agile methodology environment where innovation, teamwork, and creativity are the key to success
• Collaborate with a team of developers, QA engineers, analysts located in multiple locations

Requirements

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science/ Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 2+ years in Software Development
• Education in Computer Science or similar theoretical knowledge in CS: algorithms and complexity estimation, data structures, operating systems, programming languages
• Production experience with Golang
• Ability to learn new and unfamiliar technologies quickly, as required
• Strong understanding of RESTful API conventions and distributed architecture
• Experience with Kafka, Protobufs, and reactive, multi-tenant applications is a big plus
• Ability to proactively identify and solve engineering problems
• Good interpersonal communication skills, both verbal and written
• Good English skills (both spoken and written) are a must
• Experience with VCS (Git, SVN)
• Robust OO Programming and OO Design concepts knowledge
• Strong unit/integration testing experience
• Delivery Focused using Agile Development Methodology (Scrum/Kanban)
• Need to be a team player while having the capacity to work independently
• Strong analytical and logical skills including troubleshooting
• Good interpersonal communication skills, both verbal and written
• Good English both verbal and written skills are a must

Would be a plus

• Knowledge of ECS Fargate / Distributed AWS Architecture
• Any familiarity with any of Java, JavaScript, Python, or Rust

We offer

• Opportunity to work on bleeding-edge projects
• Work with a highly motivated and dedicated team
• Competitive salary
• Flexible schedule
• Medical insurance
• Benefits program
• Corporate social events

About us

Grid Dynamics is the engineering services company known for transformative, mission-critical cloud solutions for the retail, finance, and technology sectors. We architected some of the busiest e-commerce services on the Internet and have never had an outage during the peak season. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Ramon, California with offices throughout the US and Eastern Europe, we focus on big data analytics, scalable omnichannel services, DevOps, and cloud enablement.