Golang / Go Job: Golang Software Engineer

Golang Software Engineer at WGAMES

🇨🇦 Canada › Toronto   (Posted Jun 17 2018)

About the company
WGAMES Inc. is a leading social and casual games company. Established in 2017 by President & CEO, Daniel Kajouie, the company’s headquarters operates in the heart of Downtown Toronto. WGAMES is equipped with unsurpassed facilities and world class talent in art, design and software development paired with a seasoned leadership team in the mobile and social gaming industry.

Job position
Permanent
Relocation compensation available

Job description
WGAMES, is a well-funded, social gaming company based in the heart of downtown Toronto. We develop high-end mobile games that will be distributed globally. We are seeking an experienced, talented Golang Software Engineer with a strong RESTful API design and UNIX experience.

Responsibilities:

• Write clean, maintainable, secure code for distributed applications.

• Backend API development.

• Rewrite existent NodeJs service in GO.

Skills & requirements
Qualifications:

• A strong and proven computer science or computer engineering background.

• 5+ years experience with backend development and complex systems.

• Have great practical knowledge of Golang (2+ years) and at least one other programming language.

• Good knowledge of HTTP, Caching and RESTful API design.

• Understanding what it takes to build highly available, horizontally scalable distributed systems.

• Value coding as your craft and understand that writing software is about solving technical problems – but equally important solutions must easily maintained and understood by your peers.

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

• Familiarity with UNIX based systems.

• Experience using Continuous Integration.

Strongly desired:

• Experience working on high performance distributed systems – with a story or two to share about that process.

• Commitment to understanding issues by tracing, profiling and in general measuring to get to the root of the problem and avoid guessing why “stuff” doesn’t work.

• Proactive and curious: always eager to learn new things and happy to share your knowledge with others.

Apply now!