Software Engineer (Golang) - Full-remote, Portugal based

at  BoostIT

Boost IT is a Portuguese technology consultancy company, we are integrated into one of the most entrepreneurial groups in Portugal, with investment in more than 30 companies.
We want to be known for being the most dynamic, energetic and reliable company to operate in the market and, for that, we want to count on you.
If you’re passionate about technology and want to work on the most relevant technology projects, then this ad could be for you!
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Tasks

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code and documentation for functional web applications development
• Design, develop and deploy backend services and APIs that support high traffic, focusing on low latency, scalability, and high availability
• Participate and support the Agile methods and frameworks by taking part in planning events, daily stand-ups, planning sessions, code reviews and other discussions and events
• Collaborate and work closely with other developers, becoming a valued member of a self-managing and self-organizing, cross-functional team
• Continuously improve the products, architecture and structure by participating in code reviews and innovating on the services
• Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems on the Cloud
• Develop automated tests to ensure that business needs are met and allow for regression testing
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Follow emerging technologies
• Mentor and coach other members of the Backend chapter

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or Software Engineering with appropriate experience
• Proven work experience as a Backend Engineer for 6+ years
• Experience with Scrum Agile framework
• Proven experiences in source code management tools like Bitbucket and Git
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment)
• Have production experience with programming languages such as GO
• Experience with Amazon AWS’s serverless technologies
• Experience in developing global distributed systems and microservices
• Knowledge about systems architecture
• Good skills with databases development and maintenance (SQL and NoSQL)
• Experience in building RESTful APIs
• Experience with messaging systems (SQS, SNS and Kafka)
• Knowledgeable about design patterns, logging, and monitoring
• Experience with testing frameworks, performance testing, and unit testing
• Excellent analytical and time management skills
• Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude
• Passionate about software development

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE PREFERRED OR HELPFUL:

• Experience with Cloud Data Platforms (Snowflake, Matillion)
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with Jenkins
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker containers
• Experience with product Atlassian tools like Jira (product backlog) and Confluence (documentation)
• Knowledge in CI/CD pipelines with deployment automation, quality assurance methodologies and security analysis

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code and documentation for functional web applications development
• Design, develop and deploy backend services and APIs that support high traffic, focusing on low latency, scalability, and high availability
• Participate and support the Agile methods and frameworks by taking part in planning events, daily stand-ups, planning sessions, code reviews and other discussions and events
• Collaborate and work closely with other developers, becoming a valued member of a self-managing and self-organizing, cross-functional team
• Continuously improve the products, architecture and structure by participating in code reviews and innovating on the services
• Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems on the Cloud
• Develop automated tests to ensure that business needs are met and allow for regression testing
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Follow emerging technologies
• Mentor and coach other members of the Backend chapte