Senior SW Engineer- Golang

Roberts Recruiting•Boston, MA

About The Position

Opportunity: We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in the challenge of pushing high-volume consumer and business platforms to their next level. We are looking for an individual with a strong background in designing and developing scalable web services and micro-service, who has experience designing and implementing features for large-scale systems used by millions of mobile users per day, and who has significant experience with high volume internet services. Candidate must be familiar with current scalable multi-datacenter distributed computing technologies on commodity servers and micro-services. Our current infrastructure uses the latest technologies: Linux, AWS, Cassandra, MySQL, AMQP, Redis, Ruby on Rails and Go. We use an agile development process.

Requirements

Golang.
C/C++ candidates will be considered.
Experience developing and maintaining high volume/high performance distributed applications.
Messaging Systems (AMQP, SQS, or others)
Linux, Ubuntu/Debian, VMs Apache, Nginx, Thin, RabbitMQ AWS, EC2, S3, RDS, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis, Memcached

Nice To Haves

Ruby/Rails, Java/C# and Enterprise systems experience.
JavaScript, HTML5, JSON, XML, etc.
Working closely with dev-ops, knowledge of puppet, linux containers, software deployment, monitoring, failover.
Caching services such as CloudFront/CDNs, Akamai, etc.

Responsibilities

Design and implement high availability services and micro-services that scale to millions and millions of requests per day.
Develop core platform services and back-end APIs.
Strong interest in developing quality infrastructure and process.
Create speed, improve performance and maintain stability within the development life cycle.
Be a team player with a winning attitude.