Golang / Go Job: Go Backend Engineer to improve health outcomes

Go Backend Engineer to improve health outcomes at Healum Ltd

🇬🇧 United Kingdom › London   (Posted Apr 25 2019)

About the company
Digital solutions to tackle chronic lifestyle diseases

Job description
We are Healum - a well funded digital health company on a mission to improve and save 100 million lives across the globe.

We are looking for a Go Software Engineer based London,UK; to help further build Healum's distributed services platform to enhance our value proposition to our users. You will work closely with the founders to build high quality and scalable systems that are integrated with our products that establish Healum as a leader in providing useful and intelligent solutions for clinicians and their patients.

You have

2-3 years of demonstrable commercial experience of Go and at least one other formal software languages (think compiled software languages C/C+, Java, Scala, Erlang, Clojure)

5+ years experience in software development

Experience using go-micro or some other microservices framework and other tools like glide, godep, gorilla mux, revel

Experience in building distributed scalable and fault tolerant systems using micro-services, CEP, MQs.

Strong experience in working with data and multiple datastores both SQL / Non- SQL like relational data stores, document data stores, caches and graph Databases

Affinity for smart hacking over process and the ability to take complex technical requirements and breaking them down into smaller execution units.

Ruthless capabilities of documenting major technical details outside of the code and minor ones inside the code.

Cognitive abilities to choose smart practices over best practices with a keen eye over security and scalability.

Experience in continuously shipping and testing through deployment pipelines using CI/CD tools in an agile development environment.

Experience in performance tuning your code and scalability thinking while writing it.

You also have:

Experience working with orchestration tools (like Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm etc.) and container registeries (GCE, Docker hub etc.)

Deep understanding of distributed systems and service mesh concepts

Familiarity in Linux systems (like Centos) and some experience in scripting, automation and tooling.

Experience working with virtualisation systems (like Docker, Vagrant etc.) VMs and hypervisors (like vsphere, xenserver etc.)

Crazy attention to detail - sleepless nights because you found a bug that you couldn't resolve at 5:44 pm.

Familiarity with agile development practices (a/b testing,unit testing,continuous deployment,continuous integration,scrums) and worked in a production environment.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate technical concepts to a wide variety of audience.

Ability to be empathetic and form strong working relations with your team members, customers and partners.

A typical day might include some of the following:

Write, test, debug and ship code and gather feedback on scale, performance, security to incorporate back into the platform.

Work with the founders to identify complex technical problems and solve them.

Inspire us with latest technical trends and frameworks especially in programming languages, data stores, security and create some of your own.

Work with the infrastructure team to squeeze every ounce of efficiency from our existing systems.

To land this EPIC gig, you need...

Quality experience in building large scale distributed systems, a formal degree in computer science, physics or mathematics. Background and expertise in software development, micro services, API integrations, data analytics, security and huge scale thinking!

Would you like to make a lasting impact in people’s lives and change them for better? Then get in touch.

Absolutely NO recruiters or outsourcing companies. We only work with our PSL. Thank you.

Skills & requirements
2-3 years of demonstrable commercial experience of Go

Experience using go-micro or some other microservices framework

Strong experience in working with data and multiple datastores both SQL / Non- SQL

Apply now!