Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Responsibilities

- Design and write with the cutting edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Digibank’s range of services.

- Work with the engineering team to explore and create new design / architectures geared towards scale and performance.

- Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.

- Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization.

- Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications.

- Work closely with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations.

- Design, build, analyse and fix large-scale systems.

- Learn full stack performance tuning and optimization.

- Debug and modify complex production software.

- You will develop features as defined in the product or engineering specifications.

- You will author specifications documents as per functional requirements provided by the product team.

- You will help to mentor any junior engineers about the best-practices in software development.

- You will have service ownership of several microservices in the squad.

Requirements

- You can be a good coder in any language (C++, C, Java, Scala, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.JS, C# etc.), but willing to work on Golang.

- Has at least 5 years of experience as a backend developer.

- A good knowledge of programming design patterns (Singleton, Factory, etc).

- A solid understanding of the concept of clean code and SOLID principles.

- A good understanding of the clean architecture principles.

- Familiarity in developing services that serve HTTP Restful API, consume and publish messages from and to any stream platform like Kafka or Messaging platform like SQS.

- Familiarity with containerization (Kubernetes and Dockerfile).

- Familiarity with any cloud deployment service, e.g AWS.

- Good understanding of CI/CD concepts.

- An exposure to Microservice architecture pattern, and have been involved in development of a microservice from design stage to deployment stage.