Senior Backend Engineer (GoLang)

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help take our web application and tech stack to the next level. We're looking for a dynamic engineer who is no stranger to building well-designed, performant and effective API framework/components needed for web applications that support complex business rules and flows. As you come up to speed on our business logic, you will contribute your backend development experiences to help architect API frameworks/components to adapt to in addition to adding more features to our product.

What You'll Do 

• Design, develop and maintain customer-facing API 
• Build shared services that serve many applications and scale independently 
• Tap into our valuable data sources and build incredible features for our customers 
• Provide constructive feedback on pull requests to increase code quality
• Ensure software developed adheres to quality standards through code and design reviews

First 90 Days

In your First 30 Days, you will immerse yourself in our product and technology stack. In partnership with our Lead, you will help evaluate and design API framework/components. You will contribute to a loosely-defined technical roadmap around our API that takes scalability, testing and performance into account. You will take on development items and get your hands in our current web stack.

In your First 60 Days, you will work with your lead to work on a backlog of technical infrastructure work. In collaboration with your Product Owner, you will co-author a backlog of work to systematically add new features to our enterprise product offering.

In your First 90 Days, you will play a meaningful role in contributing to our API releases. You will monitor and create work items from production issues. You will contribute to our evolving technical roadmap, increasing the success of future deliveries.

Who You Are 

• 5+ years experience developing APIs and complex B2B web applications 
• Strong proficiency with GoLang
• Proficiency with web services and development of REST-based interfaces, including experience with JSON, JSON Schema, or related
• Prior experience architecting and developing public APIs
• Proficient with MVC, CSS, jQuery, and SQL
• Ability to flesh out user stories to be consumed by the rest of the team
• Experience working in a fast-paced, Agile (Scrum, Kanban) environment
• Bachelor's in Computer Science

Your Differentiators

• Ability to collaborate with team members remotely
• Experience introducing a 3rd tier (API) into a monolithic stack
• API and middle tier Unit Testing frameworks
• Strong understanding of the web request/response lifecycle and API design (i.e., versioning, isolation and microservice architectures)

Our Values

• We are a team. Employees, customers, and partners working together.
• We are customer-focused. Customers are the heart of everything we do.
• We are driven. Seeking exceptional outcomes.
• We own our success. Every employee has a stake in our company
• We do the right thing and have fun in the process. 

The salary range for this opportunity is $132,000 - $148,000 per year. You will be eligible for employee equity as well as discretionary bonus compensation, subject to plans that may be in effect from time to time. You will further be eligible to participate in Unanet's employee benefits plans and programs. For more details on Unanet's benefits offerings, please visit https://unanet.com/employee-benefits.

Unanet is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants will be considered for positions without regard to race, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws.