Senior GO Developer

Position Summary 

The Senior Software Engineer will be a key player and genuinely believe in solving challenges on a development team, using an Agile development model in a fast-paced and innovative environment. You will be developing solutions using the latest technology to drive new products for our customer. 

Responsibilities  

• Significantly contributes to medium to large feature releases and is recognized for high quality, impactful technical contributions 
• Contributes to defining technical direction, planning, and providing constructive feedback to ensure the team’s success 
• Team player and strong communicator, driving collaboration with designers, developers, and other relevant staff members or clients 
• Provides recommendation toward development of new code, redesign, or reuse of existing code. 
• Mentors multiple team members and lifts the skill set, technical expertise of those around them. 
• Has deep technical knowledge to understand the pros/cons of different system designs, implementations, and frameworks. 
• Improves code structure and architecture in service of testability and maintainability. 
• Considered an expert by peers and is recognized for high quality and quantity of hands-on technical contributions. 
• Collaborates and effectively communicates cross-squads, domains, and disciplines to solve problems and resolve technical issues. 
• Independently develop, document, and enhance golang microservices, GraphQL resolvers and Postgres SQL queries. 
• Implements code that is clear, concise, tested, and easily understood by others. 
• Is responsible for the entire lifecycle of their code: development, test, production, and subsequent fixes and improvements. 
• Independently performs code reviews that follow Truckstop's published standards and practices and that are recognized by their team as helpful 
• Improves the development experience at Truckstop by enhancing development tools, test coverage, and/or code structure. 
• Proactively influence squad communication and team dynamics to accomplish the tactical mission of the squad 
• Collaborates with others across squads to remove impediments and blockers 
• Strong debugging and diagnostic skills. 
• Design solutions that align with business and IT strategies and comply with the organization's architectural standards. 
• Able to articulate complex technical topics to non-technical audiences. 
• Skilled at clearly documenting design and concept ideas. 

Qualifications and Skills 

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline with minimum 7 years of related experience or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or a related discipline with minimum 7-10 years of related experience. 
• Professional working experience developing with golang. 
• Hands on experience working with Distributed Systems and Microservices. 
• Working experience with GraphQL and Postgres databases. 
• Working experience with Linux/Unix. 
• Experience with authentication mechanisms (JWT, OAuth2, and OIDC).
• Strong understanding of concurrency. 
• Familiarity with Hexagonal Architectural patterns. 
• Experience writing Ad-Hoc SQL queries and Transactional Queries. 
• Deep understanding of network protocols such as TCP/IP, DNS, and NAT. 
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs. 
• Experience working with messaging brokers like pub/sub or Kafka. 
• Working with IDEs such as GoLand, IntelliJ, or Visual Studio Code. 
• Experience working with Cloud providers (Google Cloud, Azure, AWS) a plus. 
• Experience with gRPC an asset. 
• Knowledge of containerization (Kubernetes and Docker) an asset. 
• Frontend experience (React, Typescript) a plus.