Overview

GoLang Engineer — My client, a large consultancy, requires a GoLang Engineer for a 6 month rolling contract inside IR35 based in Burgess Hill, offering 2 days per week remote but requiring 3 days per week on-site.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain backend services in Go (GoLang) and contribute to backend architecture.
• Work with backend micro-service architecture and communication, specifically REST and asynchronous messaging services (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Collaborate within a Scrum framework to deliver business functions and customer journeys that are tested and automated throughout the CI/CD pipeline to production.
• Engage in test-driven development, including unit, component, functional, system integration and regression tests.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in at least one backend type-safe programming language (GoLang preferred).
• Comfortable with backend micro-service architecture and communication (REST and asynchronous messaging such as Kafka or RabbitMQ).
• Experience in Scrum and delivering with a team, with testing and automation in CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong experience of test-driven development (unit, component, functional, system integration and regression tests).
• Knowledge of software engineering methodologies (Agile, including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe; TDD/BDD; Waterfall).
• Knowledge of any or all of the following technologies: Kafka, PostgreSQL, Golang, Git, gRPC, Docker, GraphQL.
• Experience in continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD) and continuous testing (CT), including tools such as Jenkins, Rally and/or JIRA, and version control such as GIT or SVN.