Golang / Go Job: Development Lead – Go

Development Lead – Go at Sainsbury's

🇬🇧 United Kingdom › Manchester   (Posted Jan 20 2016)

Job position
Permanent - Remote work is NOT possible

Job description
One of Britain’s biggest and best-loved companies, Sainsbury’s is investing heavily in digital innovation. The aim – to build a centre of excellence where world-class digital output is crafted by the country’s top talent. The newly established Manchester team is growing, and now looking for a Development Lead with Go specialism to help build great apps and services.

Join us and you’ll work closely with other Software Developers and Designers across multiple platforms and technologies to create a beautiful applications ecosystem that’s consistent, highly usable and reliable.

As a Development Lead – Go, you’ll:

• Write well structured, beautiful code
• Design smart ways of storing and displaying complex data
• See unit testing as a benefit, not a chore
• Be exposed to platform architecture and learn why we practice DevOps
• Be an active, contributing member of an Agile development team

As a level C5 colleague, you can expect:
• Car loan up to £10,000 or season ticket loan on public transport
• Your choice of PC or Mac
• 10% discount at all Sainsbury’s stores and online shopping
• Sainsbury’s 7.5% Retirement Pension Plan
• Bonus scheme enabling you to earn an extra annual payment of up to 20% of basic salary

Skills & requirements
You’ll need:

• The ability to write great code, ensuring that software design is as important to you as writing the code
• To be able to manage the career progression and training needs of team members
• To understand service orientated architecture
• Relational and non-relational database knowledge, and when to use them

Apply now!