Senior Go Lang Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to join our Middle Office Core Platform Organization. This team owns systems, services, and initiatives to provide financial products to our customers across digital channels. This organization is responsible for building financial products, platform capabilities, and components that are used by millions of customers daily.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be working in the Middle Office Core Platform Organization to drive product development and modernization initiatives. You are a builder with a deep understanding of tools and technologies to build products that deliver business outcomes while keeping an absolute obsession with the customer experience. You will be responsible for designing and programming small modules or large components, as well as designing features and sets of features.

Req# Responsibilities Engage in technical discussions, participate in technical designs, and present technical ideas through whiteboarding

Work closely with your peers, actively engaging in a fast-paced technical design and development team Execute in a fast-paced delivery mode with a sharp focus on delivering tasks to meet product release goals

Maintain code quality through best practices, rigorous unit testing, and code quality automation

Understand the overall product, its modules, and their interrelationships while serving as an expert in your assigned components or modules

Help design interfaces and information exchange mechanisms between modules

Possess advanced domain knowledge, demonstrate great customer focus, remain an expert in processes/methodologies, and stay skilled in build, release, and deployment processes

Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through comprehensive testing

Write robust code that meets high standards and delivers desired functionality using Go and modern cloud technologies

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a STEM Major (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)
A minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience (or 5 years with a Master's degree, or 2 years with a PhD)
Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Design Patterns, and clean coding principles

Extensive hands-on experience and deep proficiency in Go (Golang) development

Hands-on experience in microservices architecture and development, as well as relational and distributed databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, Sybase)
Preferred experience with Python scripting

Preferred experience in Service Mesh, Containers, and Kubernetes technologies

Preferred hands-on experience building cloud-based software leveraging cloud and open-source technologies/frameworks

Proven experience in building scalable, resilient, and highly available distributed systems

Experience in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices

Expertise in core data structures and algorithms with the ability to implement them efficiently in Go Preferred understanding and experience with public cloud native services (e.g., AWS, Azure)
Experience in Agile software development environments

Strong problem-solving abilities with the capacity to clearly articulate complex technical topics and assignments

Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from both a technical and business perspective

Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work effectively through limited information and vague problem definitions

Proactively identifies and addresses customer issues within the product lifecycle

We offer

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (Subsidized)
Health Savings Account Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (Company Provided)
Life and AD&D Insurance (Company Provided)
Employee Assistance Program Unlimited access to Linked In learning solutions

Matched 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan Paid Time Off Legal Plan and Identity Theft Protection Accident Insurance Employee Discounts Pet Insurance Employee Stock Purchase ProgramEPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services.…