Proximity WorksPW

Senior Backend Engineer (Go) - Contractual

Proximity is a technology company dedicated to solving complex problems and delivering innovative solutions.

Proximity Works

Employee count: 51-200

India only

We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low latency, distributed systems with RESTful services. You will be responsible for developing new software products (internal) and solving complex technical challenges for scale-ups and enterprise companies. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.

Requirements

you’ll be responsible for—

  • 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.

what you need—

  • Overall 6+ 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).

bonus points for—

  • 4+ years of actively working on Golang.
  • Open-source contributions, side projects, blog posts, and YT tech videos.

Benefits

what you get—

  • 100% remote team: Work from anywhere you please.
  • Flexible timings: Set your own hours, and create a productive schedule that works for you.
  • Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.

about us—

We are Proximity — a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting-edge tech, at scale. Here’s a quick guide to getting to know us better:

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Proximity is a technology company dedicated to solving complex problems and delivering innovative solutions. Our mission is to tackle engineering challenges and create scalable technology that facilitates growth and agility. We embrace a fully distributed work culture that thrives on diversity and independence.

Our focus is on crafting high-performance software solutions that empower companies to enhance their operational capabilities. We are passionate about building meaningful products while fostering a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous improvement among our staff. Our commitment to excellence and our ability to navigate complexity positions us as a trusted partner for organizations seeking technological transformation.

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