Senior Fullstack Platform Go Engineer

The Specialized
Morgan Hill, CA, United States
12 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
2 years minimum
Compensation
$137,000.0 - $198,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

HTML Java (Programming Language) JavaScript (Programming Language) Amazon Web Services Confluence JIRA C++ (Programming Language) Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Collaborative Software Continuous Integration Relational Databases Distributed Systems
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Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Github Revision Control Systems Interoperability PostgreSQL MySQL SQL Databases Backend Git Event Driven Architecture Information Technology Slack Api Gateway Restful APIs Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Dropbox Terraform Software Version Control Docker Golang Programming Languages

Job description

This role is part of the Global Tech team, responsible for building and maintaining scalable backend services, event-driven systems, and shared platform capabilities that support a wide range of digital products and internal business functions. As part of the Integration Platform team, this role will frequently interface with multiple engineering and business teams to enable reliable data exchange and system interoperability across the organization. The role requires experience with distributed system design and implementation, the Go programming language, and AWS infrastructure.

The ideal candidate has excellent communication skills and thrives in collaborative, cross-functional environments. They are eager to grow, have experience with Go or another statically-typed language, experience deploying services to AWS, and demonstrate strong curiosity in finding simple, effective solutions to complex problems. The candidate must work closely with peer development teams to provide thoughtful technical recommendations and drive alignment across systems.

How you will make a difference

  • Provide clarity by designing distributed systems built from iteratively-shipped components

  • Contribute to an event system which enables loose coupling across services

  • Build simple tools to aid our frontline support staff

  • Maintain a product registration system

  • Continue to enhance and support our integrations with Point of Sale systems to serve our omni-channel strategy

  • Manage a clean CI/CD pipeline to deliver robust changes frequently

  • Design best-fit technical solutions in collaboration with teammates

  • Identify and understand root causes of existing problems and propose creative and innovative solutions

Requirements

  • Experience with Golang, Java, or C++

  • Familiarity with evented systems

  • Strong fundamental knowledge of REST API design

  • Strong in web fundamentals

  • Familiar with AWS services such as API Gateway, Lambda, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, ECS

  • Working knowledge of containers, specifically Docker

  • Strong data modeling and RDBMS experience

  • Excellence at describing technical designs appropriate to a technical or business audience

  • Self-motivated teammate who is communicative and collaborative

  • Comfortable writing and testing your own code that goes to production

  • Practiced at implementing and monitoring through the three pillars of observability

Preferred qualifications

  • 8+ years of relevant experience or a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or comparable subject area)

  • 4+ years of proven experience creating technical specifications / designs from business requirements

  • 2+ years working with Golang or Java or C++

  • 2+ years working with Postgres or MySQL (via SQL, not ORM)

  • Experience of working on at-scale distributed systems

  • Previous use of Github Actions and Terraform

  • Server side rendered HTML, plain CSS, and minimal JavaScript

  • Previous use of HTMX

  • Comfortable with source code control and versioning tools (Git preferred)

  • Experience with GitHub, Atlassian Confluence, JIRA, JIRA Service Desk, Slack, Dropbox and other collaboration tools

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description Paid parental leave AD&D insurance 401(k) matching Vision insurance Health savings account Dental insurance Gym membership, As a full-time, regular teammate, you are eligible for the following benefits, beginning the first of the month following your start date.

Benefits include:

  • Competitive pay with annual performance-based reviews for continued growth and recognition

  • Comprehensive healthcare plan options, including PPO, EPO, HDHP, and HMO (acupuncture and physical therapy included)

  • Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer HSA contributions when enrolled in the High-Deductible Healthcare Plan (HDHP)

  • Dental and Vision plans

  • 401(k) Company Matching up to $5,000 annually with immediate 100% vesting and administrative fees paid for by the company

  • Company-paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability Insurance

  • Employee Assistance Program that provides access to individualized mental well-being care

  • Generous Vacation, Sick, Paid Holidays, and Volunteer Time Off

  • 14 weeks of 100% paid leave for birthing parents and 8 weeks of 100% paid leave for non-birthing parents, plus a Specialized bike for your new baby

  • Up to $9,000 annually in Career Development & Degree Assistance

  • Up to $250 annually in Fitness & Wellness Reimbursement

  • Industry Pro-Deal Discounts and Perks

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