Senior Fullstack Platform Go Engineer

Summary

This role is part of the Global Tech team, responsible for building and maintaining scalable backend services, event-driven systems, and shared platform capabilities that support a wide range of digital products and internal business functions. As part of the Integration Platform team, this role will frequently interface with multiple engineering and business teams to enable reliable data exchange and system interoperability across the organization. The role requires experience with distributed system design and implementation, the Go programming language, and AWS infrastructure.

The ideal candidate has excellent communication skills and thrives in collaborative, cross-functional environments. They are eager to grow, have experience with Go or anotherstatically-typedlanguage, experience deploying services to AWS, and demonstrate strong curiosity in finding simple, effective solutions to complex problems. The candidate must work closely with peer development teams to provide thoughtful technical recommendations and drive alignment across systems.

How you will make a difference

• Provide clarity by designing distributed systems built fromiteratively-shippedcomponents

• Contribute to an event system which enables loose coupling across services

• Build simple tools to aid our frontline support staff

• Maintain a product registration system

• Continue to enhance and support our integrations withPoint of Salesystems to serve our omni-channel strategy

• Manage a clean CI/CD pipeline to deliver robust changes frequently

• Design best-fit technical solutionsin collaboration with teammates

• Identify and understand root causes of existing problems and propose creative and innovative solutions

What you'll need to win

• Experience with Golang, Java, or C++

• Familiarity with evented systems

• Strong fundamental knowledge of REST API design

• Strong in web fundamentals

• Familiar with AWS services such as API Gateway, Lambda,EventBridge, SQS/SNS, ECS

• Working knowledge ofcontainers, specificallyDocker

• Strongdata modeling and RDBMSexperience

• Excellence at describing technical designs appropriate to a technical or business audience

• Self-motivated teammate who is communicative and collaborative

• Comfortable writing and testing your own code that goes to production

• Practiced at implementing and monitoring through the three pillars of observability

Preferred qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience or aBachelor’sdegree in Computer Science(or comparable subject area)

• 4+ years of proven experience creating technical specifications / designs from business requirements

• 2+ years working with Golangor Java or C++

• 2+ years working withPostgres or MySQL(via SQL, not ORM)

• Experienceof working on at-scale distributed systems

• Previous use ofGithubActions and Terraform

• Server siderenderedHTML, plain CSS, and minimal JavaScript

• Previous use of HTMX

• Comfortablewith source code control and versioning tools (Git preferred)

• Experience with GitHub, Atlassian Confluence, JIRA, JIRA Service Desk, Slack,Dropboxand other collaboration tools

We want to increase representation of all races, genders, and body types in the cycling industry and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce where all people thrive. We encourage everyone - especially those from marginalized groups - to apply to our job postings and help us earn the position as the rider’s brand of choice. We are always looking for creative, innovative, and passionate people who are eager to contribute to our mission of pedaling the planet forward. Regardless of your qualifications, if you are ready to make a difference, please apply and let us know how you can make an impact at Specialized!

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