About the company We believe peopleβs lives are made better by having the right resources to inform their biggest life decisions. Niche is the best place to research U.S. colleges, schools, neighborhoods, and companies. Every month, millions of people use our easy-to-read and comprehensive report cards, rankings, and reviews to choose the schools, neighborhoods, and companies that are right for them.
Niche is all about finding where you fit in and that mission inspires how we operate every day. On top of that, we want Niche to be a place where people truly enjoy working.
Job description
Weβre looking for a driven, resourceful, and systematic Software Engineer to join our growing team. As a Back End Software Engineer, you will be tasked with building and enhancing services in our distributed systems, with a strong focus on reliability, maintainability, and scalability. Our microservices platform is built on Go, Postgresql, Kafka, Elasticsearch and more.
During the 1st Month:
Collaborate with various team members to learn how your role fits within the team, the tech department, and Niche
Shadow Back End team members to learn more about our tech stack, the products we support, and our development standards and processes
Code, test, and ship bug fixes and tech debt
Within 3 Months:
Join a product team and begin working within an Agile development framework
Collaborate with other Back End team members to break down and implement new features or functionality
Participate in code reviews and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback to other Back End team members
Gain exposure to the platformβs underlying infrastructure and deployment processes
Within 6 Months:
Work with members of the tech and product teams to distill user stories or business requirements into technical requirements/design
Understand the high level architecture of the website, mobile app, and other consumers of our back-end services
Within 12 months:
Confidently implement new functionality and fix bugs across a variety of Back End projects
Begin identifying areas for improvement in our codebase, researching best practices, and making recommendations to the team on strategies to address them
Solidify understanding of the breadth of our tech stack, including underlying infrastructure, front end applications, and internal tools, and how they interact with our back-end services.
Why Niche?
Full time, salaried position with competitive compensation
Comprehensive health plan, including vision and dental, provided at no cost to the employee
20 PTO days, 10 Paid Holidays and 3 Volunteer Days Off per year
Parental leave
Stock options and SIMPLE IRA
Your ideas and work will make an immediate impact on our company and millions of users
Skills & requirements
Bachelorβs degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience
Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, C/C++, C#, Java, Python etc.)
Experience with one or more SQL databases (Postgresql, SQL Server etc.)
Strong understanding of common data structures and algorithms
Basic understanding of networking protocols
Strong collaboration and communication skills, both verbal and written
Instructions how to apply Apply at this url: https://www.golangprojects.com/golang-go-job-dbv-Back-End-Engineer-Pittsburgh-Niche.html Please mention that you found the job at Golangprojects.com
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