Senior Backend Engineer - Workforce Verification
Leads design, development, and deployment of scalable backend systems for workforce verification to combat identity fraud. Requires 5-7 years Golang experience, microservices architecture, and strong problem-solving skills.
About the job
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and debug components for distributed systems that operate at large scale and high speed
- Own and drive nonfunctional requirements such as scalability, availability, and security
- Develop and maintain unit and integration tests, achieving robust code and functional coverage
- Produce enterprise-class documentation for internal and external collaboration
- Break down complex tasks into manageable components, plan, and execute effectively
- Collaborate with team members to elevate technology standards and consistently apply best practices
- Participate actively in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software solutions
Job Requirements
- 5-7 years of significant hands-on coding experience with Golang, preferably in a product development environment
- Strong programming and design fundamentals, with excellent problem-solving and coding skills
- Exceptional analytical and reasoning abilities, with a talent for visualizing processes and outcomes
- Passion for continuous learning and growth while building high-performance systems, with a solid understanding of concurrency and multi-threading
- Experience architecting microservices and developing RESTful APIs
Nice-to-Haves
- Prior experience with high-throughput, low-latency storage, cloud computing, NoSQL databases, big data analytics, machine learning services, or large-scale systems
Skills
Go, Microservices, REST APIs, Concurrency, Multi-Threading, NoSQL, Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems
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