Golang / Go Job: Lead Backend Engineer

Lead Backend Engineer at Vistas Recruitment Ltd

Surrey, United Kingdom 🇬🇧   (Posted Jun 13 2019)

Do they allow remote work?
Remote work is possible, see the description below for more information.

Job description
You're a fan of gRPC?

You want to have an influential role in a small team?

You want the flexibility to work mainly from home?

My client is a small, cash healthy company based in Surrey, UK who have built a fantastic roster of big-name clients, helping them to automate their multi-vendor network infrastructures.

They are looking for a senior backend engineer to play a leading role, helping to transform their technical platform and provide guidance to the other engineers.

The offices are based in Surrey, UK, however they are happy for you to work from home for most of the time. As long as you can make it to the office now and again, they are happy with that.

Skills & requirements
They would like you to have solid Go experience gained in a commercial setting along with:

gRPC/protobuf experience

familiarity with TCP/IP networking concepts

You’re comfortable working in a Unix/Linux environmnent

You follow secure coding practices

Experience building APIs with Swagger or similar API development tools

An understanding of networking concepts (switching, routing, firewalls etc), since their products are focussed on network devices.

They'd love it if you had:

Familiarity with virtualisation platforms (VMware, Amazon Web Services, Docker)

Familiarity with other programming languages (C, C++,Lua) or scripting (Perl, Python, bash)

An understanding of encryption technologies

A passion for debugging and benchmarking

Experience with high availability solutions

Apply now!