Fullstack Engineer - Golang

About the role

The company is seeking a Full Stack End Engineer - Golang with a focus on back-end API experience to join a focused project team in Sydney. In this role you will improve existing functionality and performance as well as design and build new features.

Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations 

• Design and develop the current systems to increase functionality and usability
• Build features and improvements from conceptualisation to realisation working closely with the software engineering team
• Build automated tests for the REST API
• Take operational responsibility for the services and code base that you will develop

Qualifications, Experience and Skills 

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
• Between 5 years or more experience in software development
• Experience building REST APIs with Golang is mandatory
• Experience working with modern TypeScript framework, preferable React is highly regarded
• Experience working with two or more from the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, distributed and parallel systems, developing large software systems, and/or security software development
• Experience building Automated Tests with Frameworks (such as, but not limited to; httpExpect, Ginkgo, Testify) is favourable
• Experience using TypeScript is favourable
• Experience building Test Automation Frameworks with Web Browser Automation Tools (such as, but not limited to; Selenium, Cypress, Puppeteer) is favourable
• Experience developing microservices infrastructure is ideal
• Previous ‘start-up’ or ‘scale-up’ experience is favourable
• Familiarity with Docker, Postman, and GitLab are favourable
• Experience with graphing libraries and/or high-throughput real time systems is highly regarded.

Who you are

• You are a lifelong learner and continuously learning.
• You are interested in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise
• You are experienced working with modern infrastructure and tools
• You are comfortable running your software in Linux environments
• You know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery, defensive programming and automated testing
• You’re familiar with designing and building distributed and scalable systems
• An abundance of ambition and motivation to grow the company and compete with the big players in the industry