Senior Engineer

Posted 5 days 12 hours ago by The Inside Job

£60,000 - £80,000 Annual
Permanent
Full Time
Other
West Midlands, Solihull, United Kingdom, B92 9EP
Job Description

We're looking for a Senior Backend software engineer to join our platform engineering team, working in a squad and will be focused on key business priorities, helping build a successful brand and utilising industry best tools (Golang, Event Driven Architecture and AWS Serverless technologies such as; Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, DynamoDB) to build scalable solutions to enable business expansion.

Responsibilities
  • Leading technical implementations of projects to help your team deliver high-quality work on time
  • Using Golang to design, build and maintain APIs, services and integrations
  • Implementing event driven solutions to support critical business processes
  • Creating, maintaining and developing CI/CD pipelines
  • Building scalable and valuable software leveraging AWS Serverless technologies such as; Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, DynamoDB
  • Focus on creating testable, maintainable and scalable code, following Tech standards
  • Following an Agile development approach
  • Maintaining existing services, ensuring a high standard of observability and proactive monitoring, in addition to responding to incidents
  • Mentoring and coaching other engineers
  • Improve engineering standards and best practices
Qualifications
  • Strong experience in software engineering and writing production code in Golang or another strict typed language
  • Experience using cloud based serverless services (such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Run or Azure Functions)
  • Demonstrable knowledge building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience designing, setting up databases as well as have an understanding of relational and non-relational approaches
  • Experience designing, building and maintaining scalable APIs
  • An understanding of Event Driven Architecture concepts
  • Experience using Git and understand branching strategies
  • Experience implementing quality and testing best practices within the services you produce, such as unit testing and contract testing
  • Commercial awareness and a creative problem solver with the ability to think laterally and understand the cost and value drivers within a competitive business environment
Closing date

15 December