Senior Golang Engineer

Virtasant is a leading cloud consulting services provider. We heavily focus on lift & shift cloud-native development cloud cost optimization and migration services. As a consulting company we often are faced with the challenge to create an engineering team in a matter of a week or two. To do that we have created a secondary support business that runs an engineering talent network and provides staffing services.

Our client is a leading provider of pay equity platforms and analytics and they are looking for a Senior Golang Engineer to join their team.

About the role

We are looking for a senior backend engineer to join the backend engineering team and collaborate on challenges at a fast-paced startup. Customer success hinges on high-quality platform and application development. Your solid and dependable software engineering work for our products will have a meaningful impact on helping companies achieve fairness in the workplace.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with senior and staff engineers to design and develop small to mid-size features and services delivered to our customer's end users.

• Execute pragmatic and scalable solutions that will grow with our company.

• Work with the entire engineering organization (frontend product QA and site reliability) to ensure backend projects meet all team requirements.

• Focus on secure coding practices and maintainability to ensure new feature implementations fit the needs of a growing engineering organization.

Required Skills

• Software Engineering experience with an emphasis on reliable performant scalable and maintainable cloud-based technology platforms

  • Depth of experience using Golang to build web applications

  • Experience architecting cloud based applications (we use GCP)

  • Robust experience with data model and schema design

  • Experience with PostgreSQL

  • Strong knowledge of API architecture and experience building APIs

    • The candidates that also have experience with Redis Cloud PubSub and unit testing will be preferred

    • Good communication skills that enable you to interface with both technical and non-technical teams

  • Demonstrated experience working with cross-functional roles in a highly collaborative environment

Our recruitment process

• Recruiter interview (45 min)

• Virtasant technical interview

• Interview with the client (30 min)

• Technical Interview with the client

We strive to move efficiently from step to step so that the recruitment process can be as fast as possible.

What we offer

• Totally remote40h/week short term-contract (with a possibility of making it long term).

• Payment in USD by-weekly or monthly - your choice

• Flexible work hours with a mandatory overlapping from 12 PM EST to 4 PM EST.