Senior GO, Python Developer (IRC285739)

Job Description

• A degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 5-8 years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining software or an equivalent level of work experience, and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact.
• Experience with the following technologies:
  ○ Application: Go, Python
  ○ Service communication layer: gRPC
  ○ Runtime platform: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
  ○ Data layer: ElasticSearch, Mongo, Redis
  ○ Event/data pipeline: Kafka
• Ability to foster and challenge existing patterns and best practices in delivering code and tests via stories and epics that impact the team or multiple teams.
• You can collaborate and communicate effectively within and across departments. Lead technical discussions, listen actively and have two-way non-technical discussions with design and product. Able to represent the team across disciplines.
• Independently use root cause analysis to identify and address bugs and outages. Foster and challenge logging, monitoring and debugging best practices across groups of services and apps.
• Foster and challenge architecture concepts and best practices and independently apply these practices to create new services and apps that meet system performance, modifiability, maintainability and reliability needs.
• Foster and challenge agile processes and continuous integration and delivery practices to ship stories and high complexity epics/projects.
• Independently seek guidance, feedback, and learning opportunities from across the development organization to foster personal and professional growth. Support peers and more junior devs growth, prioritizing skill transfer.
• Display eagerness to learn and collaborate on goal-setting. Independent in creating goals aligned with personal development and supported in aligning some goals with team goals.
• Understand business and technical value behind roadmap projects and lead development scoping/project analysis. Can align business and technical requirements to bring proposals for projects to the team. Deliver on roadmaps effectively by communicating individual and epic-level risks and opportunities.
• Perseverance: pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish—doesn’t give up
• Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects
• Customer Focus: demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers meet their needs

Job Responsibilities

• Deliver cross-domain projects, actively promoting architectural improvements for scalable solutions, and design code to bolster state of the art best practices, system security, accessibility, and privacy measures.
• Lead comprehensive testing strategies to enhance system reliability, and resolve complex issues in live environments. Oversee and uphold efficient observability measures to ensure continuous monitoring remains effective.
• Take ownership of complex projects, ensuring timely delivery, swift escalation of any blockers encountered, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and successful execution.
• Advocate for technical solutions, foster consensus among stakeholders to move projects forward, and represent the team in high-level meetings, ensuring transparency and alignment with project objectives.
• Facilitate team growth through mentorship, foster a culture of excellence, and pursue personal growth while contributing to the development goals of the team and organization.
• Identify technical opportunities aligned with team and project goals, proactively mitigate associated risks, and provide strategic insights to optimize roadmap efficiency and achieve significant business impact.

Department/Project Description

Our client is a global SaaS powerhouse specializing in social media management and digital marketing solutions. Their comprehensive platform allows businesses to schedule content, monitor brand sentiment, and analyze cross-platform performance from a single interface.