Senior Back-End Software Engineer (Golang)

Roberts Recruiting

Boston, Massachusetts
30+ days ago

Highlights

We are looking for an individual with a strong background in designing and developing scalable web services and micro-service, who has experience designing and implementing features for large-scale systems used by millions of mobile users per day, and who has significant experience with high volume internet services. Linux, Ubuntu/Debian, VMs Apache, Nginx, Thin, RabbitMQ AWS, EC2, S3, RDS, RDS, Mysql, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis, Hadoop, HBase, Memcache.

Numbers & Facts

Location

Boston, Massachusetts

Description

Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in the challenge of pushing high-volume consumer and business platforms to their next level. We are looking for an individual with a strong background in designing and developing scalable web services and micro-service, who has experience designing and implementing features for large-scale systems used by millions of mobile users per day, and who has significant experience with high volume internet services. Candidate must be familiar with current scalable multi-datacenter distributed computing technologies on commodity servers and micro-services. Our current infrastructure uses the latest technologies: Linux, AWS, Cassandra, MySQL, AMQP, Redis, Ruby on Rails and Go. We use an agile development process.

Responsibilities

Design and implement high availability services and micro-services that scale to millions and millions of requests per day.
Develop core platform services and back-end APIs.
Strong interest in developing quality infrastructure and process.
Create speed, improve performance and maintain stability within the development life cycle.
Be a team player with a winning attitude.

Requirements

Go, C/C++, Swift or Objective-C
Experience developing and maintaining high volume/high performance distributed applications.
TCP/IP, Sockets, Messaging Systems (AMQP or others)
Linux, Ubuntu/Debian, VMs Apache, Nginx, Thin, RabbitMQ AWS, EC2, S3, RDS, RDS, Mysql, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis, Hadoop, HBase, Memcache

Desired Experience:

Ruby/Rails, Java/C# and Enterprise systems experience.
JavaScript, HTML5, JSON, XML, etc.
Working closely with dev-ops, knowledge of puppet, linux containers, software deployment, monitoring, failover.
Caching services such as CloudFront/CDNs, Akamai, etc.

Comp & Benefits

Competitive comp based on experience level
Healthcare HMO & PPO
Stock options and 401k
Flexible Spending and Transit Reimbursement Accounts