Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Responsibilities • Design and write with the cutting edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Digibank’s range of services. • Work with the engineering team to explore and create new design / architectures geared towards scale and performance. • Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards. • Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization. • Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications. • Work closely with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations. • Design, build, analyse and fix large-scale systems. • Learn full stack performance tuning and optimization. • Debug and modify complex production software. • You will develop features as defined in the product or engineering specifications. • You will author specifications documents as per functional requirements provided by the product team. • You will help to mentor any junior engineers about the best-practices in software development. • You will have service ownership of several microservices in the squad. Requirements • You can be a good coder in any language (C++, C, Java, Scala, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.JS, C# etc.), but willing to work on Golang. • Has at least 3-5 years of experience as a backend developer. • A good knowledge of programming design patterns (Singleton, Factory, etc). • A solid understanding of the concept of clean code and SOLID principles. • A good understanding of the clean architecture principles. • Familiarity in developing services that serve HTTP Restful API, consume and publish messages from and to any stream platform like Kafka or Messaging platform like SQS. • Familiarity with containerization (Kubernetes and Dockerfile). • Familiarity with any cloud deployment service, e.g AWS. • Good understanding of CI/CD concepts. • An exposure to Microservice architecture pattern, and have been involved in development of a microservice from design stage to deployment stage. a