Senior Golang Developer

Description

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Golang Developer to join our team full-time in Ukraine.

We are a leading global product engineering and digital services company that unites 4000+ seasoned professionals globally on various projects in healthcare, fintech, travel, sportswear, entertainment, and security. Ciklum delivers high-impact technology solutions to Fortune 500 and fast-growing organizations worldwide.

About the role:

As a Senior Golang Developer, become a part of a cross-functional development team working for the OneFootball.

About the client:

OneFootball’s goal is to fuel the world’s football obsession. OneFootball is the streaming platform for the new generation of football fans. It is the only app with a fully personalised home stream for non-stop news of your favourite club and the only company to offer single live football matches in-app on a free and pay-per-view basis.

• Reaching 85m football fans worldwide every month
• The best rated sports app in the world, based on millions of App Store and Google Play review
• Web, embedded and native apps
• 12 languages
• Safe for all users and piracy free
• Watch pay-per-view live video matches (e.g. sky 2nd BL in DE) or free-to-air matches
• Statistics and live scores of 200+ leagues and competitions worldwide
• Operate a 24-hour newsroom – breaking news, highlight clips, live streaming, transfer rumours and features
• OneFootball network: 300 independent content creators, clubs, federations and broadcasters, 100k+ pieces of content per month
• Headquarters in Berlin, regional offices in London, Singapore and more
• ~300 employees

Responsibilities

• Back-end development to meet customer’s business needs and implement components according to modern software development environment (cloud-based platforms, microservice architecture, etc.)
• Taking part in the decision-making process in design application architecture, solution development, architecture and code review
• Develop and review feature design documents and provide inputs/update to specifications for the solution
• Design and implement a set of various types of tests (unit, integration, functional, etc)
• Proactive position in solution development, processes improvements
• Working in an international distributed team in an Agile environment
• Communicate with PMs, engineers, Architects, QA and other colleagues and stakeholders
• Delivering the product roadmap and plannings
• To use high coding standards, software best practices and write highly testable, automatable and performant code over the whole SDLC

Requirements

• Experience in software development for more than 5 years
• Excellent knowledge in Computer Science, Computing Theory:
  • Paradigm & Principles (OOP, SOLID)
  • Database theory (RDBMS, NoSQL)
  • Code testing practices
  • Data structures
  • Architectural, Enterprise and Design Patterns
  • Monitoring, alerting approaches
  • Common attacks types (OWASP)
• Understanding of network interactions:
  • protocols
  • conventions (e.g. REST, RPC)
  • authentication and authorization flows
  • standards and practices (e.g. oAuth, JWT)
• Excellent knowledge and experience in Golang (more than 5 years)
• Practical commercial experience with:
  • REST API development
  • Web application frameworks, Testing frameworks, ORM
  • RDBMS (e.g MySQL, PostgreSQL)
  • Key-value storages (e.g. Redis, Memcached)
  • Messaging systems (e.g. RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Google Pub/Sub)
  • Version control systems (GIT)
  • Docker
  • Continuous Integration tools (e.g. Gitlab Pipeline, Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo)
  • Builders
• Experience with:
  • Troubleshooting, profiling and debugging applications
  • Creation software architecture and design of complex applications, platforms, microservices solutions
  • Agile software processes and technologies
  • Code Review process
  • Refactoring process
• Fluent or Upper-Intermediate English

You can:

• Perform a broad range of complex technical or professional activities, in a variety of contexts. Investigate, define, and resolve complex issues
• Able to work in distributed cross-functional teams effectively
• Influence customers and team members on the project level
• May supervise others or make decisions which impact the work assigned to individuals or phases of projects
• Plan, schedule, and monitor own work (and of others where applicable) competently
• Have learning agility (readiness for challenge and being open to change)

Desirable

• Experience in software development for more than 8 years
• Certifications on:
  • Cloud computing platforms (AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure)
• Understanding of orchestration and containerisation (e.g. Kubernetes, Swarm)
• Knowledge in Deployment patterns
• Practical commercial experience with:
  • NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB, ElasticSearch, CouchDB)
  • Experience with Search Engines (e.g. ElasticSearch, Azure Search, Apache Solr)
  • Provisioning tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
  • Quality tools (e.g. SonarQube)
  • Cloud computing platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with web architecture at scale (20krpm and above)
• Practical commercial experience with microservices or SOA architectures
• Experience with NoSQL data backends (Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
• Experience solving logistical problems with software

What's in it for you

• Close cooperation with the client
• A constant flow of new projects
• Dynamic and challenging tasks
• Ability to influence project technologies
• Projects from scratch
• Team of professionals: learn from colleagues and gain recognition of your skills
• European management style
• Continuous self-improvement

Be bold, not bored! 

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.