Junior Software Engineer - Go

More than 980 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. White Apps operates consumer websites and apps used by tens of millions of people each month. Core hours are 10 to 3, and the rest of the day is flexible.

Role overview

We are adding a Junior Software Engineer - Go to our Payments team. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. You can work from home anywhere in Canada. We have no office requirement. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Duties

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners

Qualifications

• 0-2 years of professional software development experience
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests

Nice to have

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Kubernetes and Docker in production

Benefits

• Extended health and dental benefits
• Group RRSP with employer matching
• Parental leave top-up

This position requires a background check.

Applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at White Apps.