Golang Job: Systems Developer

LifeQ is seeking a dynamic, enthusiastic Golang Developer to be part of the Cloud Platform function.

LifeQ provides a fast-paced and dynamic work environment with industry-leading technology and exposure to influential international corporations.

The ideal candidate will be someone with great interpersonal skills, a willingness to learn and a drive for innovative solutions to launch the company forward.

Ideally you will already have experience building complex serverless microservices using a wide range of AWS tools and using Infrastructure as Code for managing them. And if you don’t, then ideally you will be intrigued by all this and keen to learn!

Job Description

Join the LifeQ Cloud Engineering team in creating an incredible platform on which our novel science solutions runs on. We need people who are going to help us scale an infrastructure that will hold terabytes of data, facilitate millions of users, billions of API calls – across the globe.

What you will be doing:

• As part of a team, build serverless microservices to help get science models integrated into the system for user-in-the-loop feedback.
• Help drive our research and development efforts through tooling and data lake integrations.
• Integrate these microservices with various machine learning and analytics models and algorithms.
• Work with the data science and apps teams to discuss and understand requirements for making models ready for humans.
• Submit pull requests for all changes (code and infrastructure) and participate in reviewing others' PRs.
• Enhance the testing and continuous integration of the code you wrote.
• Manage and deploy your own services via Terraform.

Our Technical Stack:

• This role focuses on Go and Serverless technologies (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB); knowledge of Python and Node will also help!
• We run on AWS; we don't have local servers, everything is in the cloud, with a mix of instances, containers and serverless, focusing on services like RDS, SQS/SNS and S3
• Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, Datadog and CloudWatch are used to automate and monitor our delivery pipeline.
• Jira, Confluence, Google Apps and Slack are used for collaboration.

The individual that we are looking for should

• Have a Degree in Computer Science or Engineering (or related) from a reputable university or college, or enough relevant industry experience.
• Work well in a team, as well as independently; we design / problem solve together, but also require individual research into challenges.
• Be comfortable working in a growing, dynamic and fast-moving environment.
• Be willing to take ownership and accountability for a solution and run with it, both under supervision and without.
• Be willing to learn, solve problems, automate processes, and document all the things!
• Be capable of working effectively while remote; given the distributed nature of our teams and offices, we work with a remote first mindset, regardless of physical location.

Job Specifics

• Type of person: Critical thinking, strong in your domain and can engage and lead some of the largest most intimidating companies in the world
• Working hours: full time team member.
• Vacancy reason: Simple - we are growing and need smart people on the bus
• When to appoint: Yesterday