Golang Developers - Full time Contractual

ABOUT THE ROLE • Are you coding Kung-Fu strong? Do you pursue true mastery of your art? Do you see the code? If you • are passionate about hands-on Software Engineering and want to join a collaborative team who have • true ownership of their deliverables and respectfully and courageously seeks to challenge the status quo, then read on. • To help us keep innovating, Alchemy is looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join our • cross-functional Agile team. We’re looking for someone who wants to live our shared values of • Courage, Integrity, and Collaboration, and who relishes being empowered to make and drive change. • As a champion of DevOps culture, you’ll be encouraged to share your skills and experience of good • software engineering practices, architecture patterns, and open-source CI/CD tools with the team and • mentor other engineers day to day. From problem-solving to new concept ideas, you’ll be allowed to unleash your full creative potential on a variety of software engineering challenges, which will stretch you while ensuring you are constantly learning. • Our Alchemists are part of a young, dynamic organization breaking down the barriers to owning • desirable electronic devices, disrupting traditional paradigms in our market, and putting technology at • the heart of the journey. Come and join us and be part of the change. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Write high-quality, elegant, effective code • Share your learnings with the team from keeping up to date with industry trends and technology • developments • Collaborate with the Scrum Master, Developer in Test, and Product Owners on story refinement • and prioritization • Ensure code committed meets the definition of done • Identify and share relevant architectural patterns • Coach the team in the avoidance of anti-patterns • Lead by example in the use of test automation • Ensure the team keeps the CI/CD pipeline green • Guide the team in ensuring all code deployed to the trunk is in a shippable state • Perform code reviews for security, accuracy, and functionality • Create a culture of metrics and data to drive continuous improvement • Provide operational support for your products • Ensure the team meets its commitments and goals for each sprint, delivering high-quality code into production • Coach the team in the practice of continual code quality improvement • Ensure relevant regulatory and compliance goals are met • Work closely with Infosec to ensure Security's ‘shift left’ • Collaborate closely with the Operations team, promoting a DevOps culture • Mentor your fellow software engineers to help them achieve more than they thought possible • The above list is not exhaustive, and you may be asked to undertake reasonable additional duties/ projects to support the team SELECTION CRITERIA Your Behaviors: • Problem Solver – You love to fix things • Creative – You are a fountain of innovative ideas and love experimenting • Logical – You look for facts and think your way to a conclusion • Forward-looking – You embrace new and better ways of doing things, and relish the opportunity to take others on the journey with you • Confident – You embrace having positive, open and candid discussions with individuals at all levels • Decisive – you have a keen sense of prioritization and make intelligent decisions independently • Motivated – You are a self-starter with the ability to work independently under light supervision • Reliable - You’re the person stakeholders and peers always want to work with • Compassionate - You understand that people make projects a success • Energetic - you bring bags of energy every day, the only way is forward • Organized - you are detail-oriented and manage your time and the time of others well • Data driven – Information is your friend; you love to use facts and evidence to help ensure success for the team and our customers • Communicator - we're all constantly learning and encourage the sharing of knowledge across our engineering team QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE Essential: • Highly experienced in developing in Golang (5 years+) and PHP (7 Years+) • Experience of relevant frameworks like Martini, Revel, Lumen, and Laravel • Highly experienced in the use of Agile practices • Experience of working in an organization with a DevOps culture • Practical experience of working in Scrum and Kanban teams across multiple geographies and time zones • Track record of successfully designing and implementing loosely coupled micro-services architectures • Experience of working in a cloud native environment • Highly experienced in writing and interfacing with REST API’s and Webhooks • Practical knowledge of CI/CD pipeline tools like Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Cucumber, Selenium • Knowledge of AWS design patterns • Experience with the ELK stack • Practical use of Jira and Confluence • Experience in writing automated tests (unit & integration) • Security awareness in a software engineering context • Hands-on MySQL experience Desirable: • Incorporating telemetry at the code level with libraries like StatsD • Experience with Docker & Kubernetes • Experience with event streaming architectures and tools like Kafka • Experience with OpsGenie • Experience with AWS CloudWatch • Experience of using SonarQube, Gemnasium, and Gauntlt • Experience with AppDynamics or similar • Experience with dashboard visualization • Experience of Test-Driven Development • Demonstrable contribution to open-source projects Originally posted on Himalayas