Golang / Go Job: Go developer, Santa Monica

Go developer, Santa Monica at Magnet Co

🇺🇸 United States › California › Los Angeles   (Posted Aug 21 2017)

Job position
Permanent

Job description
This is a full-time contract to hire W2-based position working Monday through Friday on-site in Santa Monica. We are seeking a senior level software developer with specialization in the Go programming language.

The successful candidate will join a dynamic team building important educational software used by thousands of teachers and students across the US. Our engineers coordinate requirements with product team members, formulate software designs, then implement, test, and help push into production. The ability to identify creative and scalable solutions within the constructs of a system with millions of users is required. This position will focus on Curriculum / Learning Management and Assessment feature sets.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsible for the design, development, and testing of web-based applications
Responsible for developing database schema changes to support new features
Responsible for review and accurate development against business requirements
Responsible for supporting QA in defect resolution
Support development initiatives for key customers
Following processes including: SDLC, QA, optimization, and others

WORK DIMENSION

Completion of customer / contract specific development
Rapid customer issue resolution

COMPLEXITY

Collaborates with manager to develop efficient, goal oriented code
Collaborates with manager to develop with a focus on scalability / quality
Manages time effectively.

Skills & requirements
Must be excited about building scalable API web applications
6+ years of programming or a masters in Computer Science
PHP, MySQL, HTML, JQuery / Javascript, and CSS experience
Experience with emerging languages such as Go
Experience with RESTful APIs a plus
Experience with MySQL advanced functions, procedures and triggers a plus
Knowledge of relational database design concepts
Ability to work in a fast-paced quick software release environment
Ability to work in a team or individually
Experience on a software development team
Experienced in LAMP development and linux server administration
Experienced in mobile app development
Experience working with APIs / AJAX / XML / JSON
Strong understanding of UI and UX
Experience with Github

Apply now!