Golang Job: Entry Level Software Engineer

THIS POSITION IS 100% REMOTE

Varis is a well-funded and fast-growing technology startup. Our incredible team includes top industry leaders with decades of experience. We are innovation driven, customer centric, and ready to transform eProcurement. Our culture is focused on bold vision, launching the simplest (yet still valuable) initial solution to learn, then either failing or scaling fast. We seek teammates who drive value creation, are great problem solvers, have strong interpersonal savvy, and can successfully learn on the fly! Joining us now is a ground-floor opportunity to shape our limitless future. On our team you will: see and feel the direct impact of your work; be surrounded by passionate people; learn how to be an entrepreneur; and be at the center of a highly dynamic business model with tremendous individual and collective potential.

The role of the Software Developer I is to design, build and maintain high quality technology solutions that deliver an exceptional customer experience. Working as an integral part of an Agile development team, this role will require close and continuous collaboration with the team Lead & Sr. Developers, Product Managers and fellow team members to translate user stories and functional requirements into resilient & secure technical designs which will be implemented as production-ready application code using Java and/or Golang.
Ideal candidates should be able to demonstrate coding skills in Java and/or Golang, with up to 2 years of development experience in one of these or a similar language. Candidates should understand public Cloud platforms.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Partners with senior developers to translate basic user stories and functional requirements into resilient & secure technical designs

• Under management direction, designs, builds and maintains high quality technology solutions that deliver an exceptional customer experience

• Ensures application SLAs are met by employing appropriate monitoring and alerting tools as required by each supported application.

• Focuses on professional development through our wide array of learning opportunities for continued growth within the Varis team

Education & Experience

• Level of Formal Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Area of Study: Computer Science or Engineering discipline; Graduate degree preferred
• Years of Experience: 0-2 years of relevant experience is expected to be successful in this role; Internships preferred if no post-college work experience

Type of Experience: Entry level software development experience preferred including internship

Language Skills:

• English

Technical Competencies:

• Java EE and/or Golang
• Spring, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Vertx, GraphQL
• Git
• Ability to create unit tests, performance and integration tests (jUnit, jMeter/k6 & Postman/Newman)
• Kubernetes and/or Docker
• NoSQL DB (ie. Couchbase / MongoDB / Elastic)
• RDBMS (ie. MySQL / PostgreSQL / MS SQL Server / Oracle)
• HTTP
• Linux/Unix basics

Skills and Ability:

• Natural problem solver
• Ability to mentally model complex systems
• Ability to break down complex problems into smaller less complex problems

Personal Attributes:

• Team player
• Detail orientated
• Strong communicator

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by associates assigned to this classification and are not intended to be a complete list of all required responsibilities and skills. Other duties and special projects may be assigned per business needs. Job descriptions are subject to change at any time with or without notice. Varis is wholly owned by The ODP Corporation, which is the legal employer of Varis associates. ODP is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Type: Full-time