Software Engineer - Go

Headquartered in New York City, the company has grown since 1987 by acquiring regional IT providers. Across New York, the company runs 14 branch offices and a central depot for hardware staging and imaging.

Job summary

We need another Software Engineer - Go who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

Responsibilities

• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana

Required qualifications

• 2-4 years of professional software development experience
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design

Compensation: $147,000 to $194,000 per year DOE.

Pay and benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid parental leave
• $1,000 home office setup budget
• Tuition reimbursement

Ambercrest IT provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

Most hires start within two to three weeks of an offer.

Start: Immediately.

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