Golang Developers - Full time Contractual - Codup

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Are you coding Kung-Fu strong? Do you pursue true mastery of your art? Do you see the code? If you
• are passionate about hands-on Software Engineering and want to join a collaborative team who have
• true ownership of their deliverables and respectfully and courageously seeks to challenge the status quo, then read on.
• To help us keep innovating, Alchemy is looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join our
• cross-functional Agile team. We’re looking for someone who wants to live our shared values of
• Courage, Integrity, and Collaboration, and who relishes being empowered to make and drive change.
• As a champion of DevOps culture, you’ll be encouraged to share your skills and experience of good
• software engineering practices, architecture patterns, and open-source CI/CD tools with the team and
• mentor other engineers day to day. From problem-solving to new concept ideas, you’ll be allowed to unleash your full creative potential on a variety of software engineering challenges, which will stretch you while ensuring you are constantly learning.
• Our Alchemists are part of a young, dynamic organization breaking down the barriers to owning
• desirable electronic devices, disrupting traditional paradigms in our market, and putting technology at
• the heart of the journey. Come and join us and be part of the change.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Write high-quality, elegant, effective code
• Share your learnings with the team from keeping up to date with industry trends and technology
• developments
• Collaborate with the Scrum Master, Developer in Test, and Product Owners on story refinement
• and prioritization
• Ensure code committed meets the definition of done
• Identify and share relevant architectural patterns
• Coach the team in the avoidance of anti-patterns
• Lead by example in the use of test automation
• Ensure the team keeps the CI/CD pipeline green
• Guide the team in ensuring all code deployed to the trunk is in a shippable state
• Perform code reviews for security, accuracy, and functionality
• Create a culture of metrics and data to drive continuous improvement
• Provide operational support for your products
• Ensure the team meets its commitments and goals for each sprint, delivering high-quality code into production
• Coach the team in the practice of continual code quality improvement
• Ensure relevant regulatory and compliance goals are met
• Work closely with Infosec to ensure Security's ‘shift left’
• Collaborate closely with the Operations team, promoting a DevOps culture
• Mentor your fellow software engineers to help them achieve more than they thought possible
• The above list is not exhaustive, and you may be asked to undertake reasonable additional duties/ projects to support the team

SELECTION CRITERIA

Your Behaviors:

• Problem Solver - You love to fix things
• Creative - You are a fountain of innovative ideas and love experimenting
• Logical - You look for facts and think your way to a conclusion
• Forward-looking - You embrace new and better ways of doing things, and relish the opportunity to take others on the journey with you
• Confident - You embrace having positive, open and candid discussions with individuals at all levels
• Decisive - you have a keen sense of prioritization and make intelligent decisions independently
• Motivated - You are a self-starter with the ability to work independently under light supervision
• Reliable - You’re the person stakeholders and peers always want to work with
• Compassionate - You understand that people make projects a success
• Energetic - you bring bags of energy every day, the only way is forward
• Organized - you are detail-oriented and manage your time and the time of others well
• Data driven - Information is your friend; you love to use facts and evidence to help ensure success for the team and our customers
• Communicator - we're all constantly learning and encourage the sharing of knowledge across our engineering team

Essential:

• Highly experienced in developing in Golang (5 years+) and PHP (7 Years+)
• Experience of relevant frameworks like Martini, Revel, Lumen, and Laravel
• Highly experienced in the use of Agile practices
• Experience of working in an organization with a DevOps culture
• Practical experience of working in Scrum and Kanban teams across multiple geographies and time zones
• Track record of successfully designing and implementing loosely coupled micro-services architectures
• Experience of working in a cloud native environment
• Highly experienced in writing and interfacing with REST API’s and Webhooks
• Practical knowledge of CI/CD pipeline tools like Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Cucumber, Selenium
• Knowledge of AWS design patterns
• Experience with the ELK stack
• Practical use of Jira and Confluence
• Experience in writing automated tests (unit & integration)
• Security awareness in a software engineering context
• Hands-on MySQL experience

• Incorporating telemetry at the code level with libraries like StatsD
• Experience with Docker & Kubernetes
• Experience with event streaming architectures and tools like Kafka
• Experience with OpsGenie
• Experience with AWS CloudWatch
• Experience of using SonarQube, Gemnasium, and Gauntlt
• Experience with AppDynamics or similar
• Experience with dashboard visualization
• Experience of Test-Driven Development
• Demonstrable contribution to open-source projects