Senior Developer-- API Services

True Tandem • Washington, DC

27d

About The Position

TrueTandem's mission is to be a trusted information technology solutions provider, committed to the success of our customers, communities and employees. To enable this mission, we listen to our customers’ needs, empower our dedicated and talented employees, envision success together, and deliver innovative cost-effective solutions. For our customers, we aim to deliver more power to meet their business outcomes through technology implementation, integration, optimization and customization. We enable some of the most well-known companies, nonprofits and federal agencies in the United States to intelligently plan and develop their applications, modernize their infrastructure and manage their data.

The Senior Developer will play a key role in developing and maintaining backend APIs that support the content delivery systems that support internal customers as well as public consumer products. You will be expected to design and deliver large scale, fault tolerant and highly available architectures. Golang, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and Terraform are a few of the technologies you will use to deliver these services.
If you have a passion for rapid API development, automation, AI, learning new things, challenging and bettering your peers, and want to work in a dynamic DevOps environment, we would love to talk to you!

Requirements

• Experience as a self-starter that thrives in a remote-friendly environment.
• At least 2 years' experience creating and maintaining software platforms and deployments. We believe in DevOps - We run what we build.
• Experience developing APIs, SDKs, and CLI tooling.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, test driven development, CI/CD, and version control.
• Experience building and enhancing configuration driven systems using tools like Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Salt or other comparable technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy backend APIs in Golang that deliver content to our front-end teams and ultimately to millions of readers.
• Automate everything, containerize applications with Docker, deploy and scale those containers using k8s, configure clusters and alerts using Terraform.
• Leverage leading public cloud providers’ tools and services to create efficient, performant, and modern application architectures.
• Discover new tools and techniques to optimize cost, deployment speed, developer effort, and resource usage.
• Review PRs and use them as an opportunity to mentor other developers on the team.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and plan for sprints with a two-week cadence.
• Provide operational support for our applications including participation in the team’s on-call rotation.
• Help establish, improve, and advocate best practices around our application and infrastructure monitoring.
• Collaborate to design and implement well-tested, performant applications with an emphasis on concurrency.
• Ship API solutions implementing GraphQL and REST at scale via a collection of services.
• Write scalable software using Golang (experience with Ruby, Node, Python or similar languages/environments is a plus.)
• Automate deployment and scaling using Terraform and Kubernetes.
• You will be creating a lot of effective unit and integration tests.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees