Senior Software Engineer - GoLang

What You’ll Do —

• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, and maintainable code.

• Solving complex technical problems.

• Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code.

• Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards.

• Participating in and driving code reviews.

• Building robust, secure, and scalable microservices.

• Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway.

• Ensuring sub-second server response and will be responsible for implementing relational, document, key, object, or graph data stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed.

• Tracking defects and work with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlog

• Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure.

• Evaluating relevant technologies, influencing and driving architecture and design discussions.

• Architecting & designing the platform.

• Mentoring junior engineers helping them grow, performing code reviews, system monitoring & delegation.

• Writing documentation & create engineering processes.

• Working as an individual contributor.

• Helping drive KPIs with Product.

• Taking ownership of backend systems.

• Helping with unit tests & QA process.

• Scaling the engineering team.

• System scaling to hundreds of millions of users.

• Working with product managers and designs.

Requirements —

What You Bring —

• Overall 5-8 years of experience in software development with a strong base in Golang/Java/Python and a degree in Computer Science(optional).

• Experience with Go, K8, Docker, AWS, and CI/CD.

• Experience with micro web frameworks – like Springboot, Gin/Mux.

• Experience in working with microservice architectures, Transactional systems, and Distributed environments.

• Exposure to building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance, and metrics (with something like Hystrix).

• Experience with MySQL, and NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).

• Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch and ESB - Camel, ActiveMQ.

• DevOps experience.

• Experience with AWS stack.

• Excellent attention to detail.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

• To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal to no guidance in a fluid environment.

• To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems.

• To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements scope and priorities.

• To be experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environments.

• To have led or mentored an engineering team before(optional).

• To have contributed to open-source projects.

• To have a strong drive & desire for continued growth.

• Proficiency in English.

• Experience with Web3(optional).

Benefits —

What you get —

• Best-in-class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.

• Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field.

• Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.

  
  

About us —

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.
Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.