Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software, with a clear understanding of the value the software is to provide.
Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm.
Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances.
Develops test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable success, rapid deployment of code to production.
Collaborates with other team members in agile processes.
Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
Works with the Product Team to ensure user stories are valuable, developer ready, easy to understand and testable.
Delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
Mentors other engineers and contributes to technical decisions around architecture, observability, security, and operations.
Requirements
3–6+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development.
2+ years of hands ‑ on Go (Golang) experience building production services, APIs, or tooling.
Strong experience building and operating services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including one or more of: GKE or other container orchestration Cloud Run or GCE Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Spanner, Bigtable, or similar managed services.
Demonstrated experience designing and implementing RESTful or gRPC APIs and integrating with other backend services.
Experience building cloud ‑ native, distributed systems with a focus on resilience, scalability, and performance (e.g., retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, caching, graceful degradation).
Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (e.g., Cloud Build, Jenkins, Argo/Spinnaker, or similar), including automated testing and deployments.
Strong experience with unit, integration, and performance testing for backend services.
Solid understanding of version control practices and workflows (Git preferred).
Ability to troubleshoot complex issues in distributed systems using logs, metrics, and traces.
Strong communication and collaboration skills; ability to work effectively in a cross ‑ functional, platform ‑ oriented team and to mentor junior engineers.