Senior Software Developer, Go

We run a marketplace with over 300,000 active sellers and fulfillment centres in four regions. We started in 2008 and have grown to about 890 people.

Role overview:

We need another Senior Software Developer, Go who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. Remote within Ireland. The team meets in Limerick once a quarter, travel covered. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in.

Duties:

• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed

Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of professional software development experience
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line

Preferred qualifications:

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Kubernetes and Docker in production
• Contributions to open source projects
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ

What we offer:

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Company pension scheme
• 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Life assurance
• Annual bonus
• Income protection

Unfortunately we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Start: Immediately.

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