Job description

Location: 100% Remote
Type: Permanent
Salary: £94,000 Per Annum

Do you want to have an influential Go development role in a small team?
Want to work remotely?
Want to work in a secure, cash-healthy company?

My client is a small, cash healthy company based in Surrey, UK who have built a fantastic roster of big-name clients, helping them to improve network availability, security and compliance. Using their producs, network and security teams are able to centrally manage complex tasks across multi-vendor networks, helping them avoid costly outages, meet SLAs, automate network change, and reduce the ever growing burden of compliance and security audits.

They ship an on-premise Go monolith wrapped neatly in a Linux box every week and their customers love it!

They are looking for an experienced engineer to join their small team, to lead the transformation and growth of their mature Go application. This is a company where everyone from the top down understands the tech involved. The role is fully remote within UK or EU.

About the role:

– Design, architect, and configure new and/or existing features/systems as required
– Planning future work/releases and actively develop core software
– Manage and delegate developer workload and execute code reviews
– Triage customer RFEs and maintain the development environment
– Run testing/debugging/benchmarking
– Manage CI/CD pipelines
– Function as the team lead by managing hiring, onboarding, and mentoring new development team members
– Set required software quality standards and ensure adherence by the team
– Deliver project status updates to leadership

You:

– have solid Go skills with experience in a commercial environment
– are familiar with networking concepts
– are familiar with administering a modern Linux server
– are familiar with virtualisation platforms (VMware, Amazon Web Services, Docker)
– have experience building REST APIs
– have excellent verbal and written English skills
– follow secure coding practices

Bonus if you have:

– an understanding of HTML, CSS, Javascript and single-page application development
– Familiarity with other programming languages (C, C++,Lua) and/or scripting (Perl, Python, bash)
– An understanding of encryption technologies
– Passion for debugging and benchmarking