Software Developer - Golang @ Xenon7

• We are looking for a great Go developer who possesses a strong understanding of how best to leverage and exploit the language s unique paradigms, idioms, and syntax
• Your primary focus will be on developing Go packages and programs that are scalable and maintainable
• You will ensure that these Go packages and programs are well documented and have reasonable test coverage
• You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure
• A commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is essential

Key Responsibilities

• Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code

• Translating software requirements into stable, working, high performance software

• Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient micro services distributed architecture

• Responsible for the design and implementation of scalable software and solutions required for platform

• The candidate will be responsible for all aspects of the software development life cycle for the applicable projects, including gathering requirements, design, implementation, testing and deployment.

• This position requires development skills focusing on platform services, distributed systems architecture, security, maintainability, scalability and performance.

Technical Requirements

• Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms

• Knowledge of common Goroutine and channel patterns

• Experience with the full site of Go frameworks and tools, including

• Dependency management tools such as Godep, Sltr, etc

• Go s templating language

• Go s code generation tools, such as Stringer

• Popular Go web frameworks, such as Revel

• Router packages, such as Gorilla Mux, Gin

• Ability to write clean and effective Godoc comments

• Familiarity with code versioning tools {{such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial}

Professional Attributes

• Strong problem solving, analytic and debugging skills.

• Ability to adapt to new technologies and programming languages.

• Excellent organizational skills including ability to manage own time effectively.

• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills.

• Must work well in a demanding and fast paced team environment.

Education/Qualification

• B.E./B.Tech. in Computer Science or higher degree in CS or equivalent experience

• Good knowledge of usage and programming on Linux systems

• Working knowledge of distributed systems, network and messaging protocols, high availability, scalability and related technologies.

• Storage system, file system understanding is a plus

• Knowledge of SQL is a plus

• Knowledge of Python programming is a plus

• Knowledge of AWS technologies is a plus

• Knowledge and usage of Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.

Experience : 1 - 3 years