Golang Job: Leadership Development

API Services Developer

Remote

GCH or US citizens

We have a Media Production client seeking an API Services Developer to join their team. This person will be 100% remote. USC & GC Holders only.

The API Services team is responsible for engineering and delivering cutting-edge services to aide in content delivery to end customers. Their services support over 500 news brands, and more than 1 billion requests a day.

The Developer will play a key role in developing and maintaining backend APIs that support the content delivery systems that support internal customers as well as public consumer products. You will be expected to design and deliver large scale, fault tolerant and highly available architectures. Golang, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and Terraform are a few of the technologies you will use to deliver these services.

If you have a passion for rapid API development, automation, learning, challenging and bettering your peers, and want to work in a dynamic DevOps environment, our client would love to talk to you!

You will

• Design, develop, and deploy backend APIs in Golang that deliver content to their front-end teams and ultimately to millions of readers.
• Automate everything, containerize applications with Docker, deploy and scale those containers using k8s, configure clusters and alerts using Terraform.
• Discover new tools and techniques to optimize cost, deployment speed, developer effort, and resource usage.
• Review PRs and use them as an opportunity to mentor other developers on the team.
• Participate in agile ceremonies and plan for sprints with a two-week cadence.
• Provide operational support for their applications.
• Help establish, improve, and advocate best practices around their application and infrastructure monitoring.

You want to

• Engineer well-tested, performant applications with an emphasis on concurrency.
• Use and leverage Agile methodologies.
• Ship API solutions implementing GraphQL and REST at scale via a collection of services.
• Write scalable software using Golang (experience with Ruby, Node, Python or similar languages/environments is a plus.)
• Automate deployment and scaling using Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Did we mention testing?

They would love you to have

• Experience as a self-starter that thrives in a remote-friendly environment.
• At least 2 years' experience creating and maintaining software platforms and deployments. They believe in DevOps - They run what we build.
• Experience developing APIs, SDKs, and CLI tooling.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, test driven development, CI/CD, and version control.
• Experience building and enhancing configuration driven systems using tools like Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Salt or other comparable technologies.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Remote