Golang / Go Job:  Senior GoLang Software Engineer

 Senior GoLang Software Engineer at Make it Social

🇬🇧 United Kingdom › Edinburgh   (Posted Jun 27 2017)

About the company
Make it Social are recruiting for a talented Senior Developer to join our growing, passionate and innovative central Edinburgh based team. You will be a pivotal part of the team in the development of the business.

Make it Social offers companies, within a range of industries including travel and event ticketing, a group booking solution that integrates with their existing systems via APIs.

Once integrated the social group is open to a host of opportunities, geared to marketing towards a new demographic. For our users, we are developing a social network that enables more offline social interaction with friends and family.

Job position
Permanent - Remote work is NOT possible

Job description
Main Duties and Responsibilities
You will be a core member of the server side engineering team, which is responsible for the software lifecycle of all consumable APIs Make it Social uses in-house, and provides externally. Your experience in this domain and team-playing ability will contribute to an increase in the efficiency, quality, and output of the server side engineering team.

You will have:
• An expert level understanding of programming paradigms and design patterns
• 3 years + experience writing highly concurrent systems in idiomatic GoLang
• 5 years+ experience in developing highly available, long-lived software systems, interacted with by at least 100 concurrent users, with obligated response times

Dates​: Full time Monday to Friday (7 hours between 8am and 6pm with core hours 10am to 4pm). Some degree of flexibility around working hours may be required during busier times.

Skills & requirements
Essential Technical Skills
• 3+ years GoLang experience
• Proficient in at least 1 language in each of these domains - functional, imperative, scripting, declarative, procedural / CLI.
• 2+ years experience designing and implementing APIs
• Experience implementing SOAP and REST APIs
• 5+ years experience working withing/leading a team
• Resource utilization modelling skills
• Strong ability to debug by thinking
• Exceptional dedication to testing

Desirable Technical / Soft Skills
• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Comfortable working witin multiple platforms
• MySql / MongoDb experience
• Experience developing systems makesing use of internationalisation, including RTL character sets
• Algorithm analysis skills

Character & Personality
• Ablity to work within a stressful environment
• Strong communication skills
• Desire to see others develop
• Calm and well intentioned motivations
• Understanding of others
• Mature and positive attitude

Apply now!