Backend Engineer

Golang / Backend Engineer AWS (reputed company Digital)

We're looking for an reputed company and enthusiastic Golang Engineer with skills in AWS  to join one of our teams, and be part of building high impact innovative products and experiences. We value curiosity, and a passion for learning, and growing together.

Core Skills & Competencies

• Strong proficiency in the latest Golang technologies
• Thorough understanding of AWS and its core principles
• Experience with implementing reputed company reputed company architectures
• Familiarity with newer specifications of AWS
• Experience with DynamoDB is a plus
• Experience with reputed company Functions
• Strong experience with RESTful APIs & GraphQL
• Knowledge of authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern build pipelines and tools, and experience with reputed company integration
• Experience with automated testing
• A practical understanding of the SOLID principles
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Strong working knowledge of git and reputed company, including reputed company actions.
• Experience with node, Typescript and NextJS would be a plus

Responsibilities

• Developing api’s that integrate with legacy and new systems
• Developing with the latest AWS technologies
• Building robust reputed company functions
• Translating specifications into high quality code
• Optimizing components for maximum performance

Stack / Tools

• Golang
• AWS platform (reputed company, AppSync, reputed company, EC2, API Gateway, Route53,  DynamoDB, CloudFormation)
• GraphQL (AppSync)
• reputed company
• JIRA
• reputed company

Requirements for Application

• Code or a portfolio worth sharing, that will help us validate your skills and experience
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience
• Contactable references
• At least 1 of the following: reputed company profile or similar, StackOverflow profile, HackerRank etc.

Bonus Points for

• Being a polyglot
• Contributing to reputed company reputed company
• Sharing your reputed company project
• Sharing your blog, or other developer community involvement

Who You Are

• Unafraid to reputed company reputed company and take the initiative
• Willing to learn and try new things
• Keen communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Have a keen understanding of user experience and how every layer of a system contributes to it.
• Have the self discipline and organizational skills to work effectively as part of a remote team

Benefits

• Sponsored and incentivised Learning, Personal and Professional Development
• Work Remotely full time, reputed company
• Work in small product-focused and highly autonomous teams
• Competitive Market-reputed company Salary,
• Comprehensive Discovery Medical Aid, Vitality and Gap Cover for SA based  team members

Who We Are:

We're a small distributed Product development team of teams, looking to grow. steadily and intentionally. We're engineers and designers first, we put our heart into our work, and reputed company no apologies for it. We're driven to win, to reputed company, to "reputed company the bar" and have one hell of a time doing it.

We're on a mission to be a world-class team, what does that mean?

• Consistently investing in people
• Focused on team and process improvement
• Tight feedback cycles internally and with customers
• Quality engineering and design first, always.
• Data-driven team-based decision making
• Transparency, internally and externally.
• Autonomy, Accountability, and Ownership.
• A culture of experimentation, testing & knowing over guessing.
• Independent thinking and reputed company decent

The Work

Our customers are ambitious, they reputed company big, and have high hopes and expectations for the work we do. They value us as a partner and our commitment to quality above reputed company else. We don't just write code, we help shape the product reputed company, the technologies, and instill the values of agility, high-quality product development and delivery.

We consult for leading brands, and innovative startups across multiple industries, in SA, Europe, and the USA. We're focused on small, regular delivery iterations with long-lasting engagements, and have one or more teams dedicated to a project.

If you're interested in joining a dynamic, creative and fast-evolving team, want to explore new technologies, and build high impact products, we would love to hear from you.

Notes on our Hiring Process  

• We don't want to waste your time or ours, please read the above carefully.
• We follow a four-reputed company process, after completing the pre-screening, we'll have an initial brief phone or video call, a review of your work or evidence of your technical capabilities, and lastly a team interview before going into contract negotiation.
• If you cannot satisfy the minimum requirements for application above, please prepare a motivation as to why we should consider your application.