Lead Software Engineer "Golang"

Job description

Title: Principal Software Engineer

Location: Atlanta Georgia

Our Client is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our team in Atlanta. They are creating a highly scalable, hybrid (cloud and on-premises), multi-region solution leveraging cutting edge technology solutions. Be part of creating a new era in NCRs 135-year history by leading the cloud expansion of our most critical services.

Position Summary & Key Areas of Responsibility 

• Build, test, operate, and improve platform engineering solutions
• Own problems end-to-end, engaging with stakeholders to contribute to product roadmap, considering performance, observability, operations, testing.
• Contribute to technical strategy and vision for the team via design and code review
• Participate in shaping an effective software development lifecycle with a focus on customer support and root cause analysis.
• Uphold high engineering standards by providing technical leadership and assistance to internal and external product development teams, advocating for best practices.
• Mentor others on the team with a growth mindset.
• Can diagnose and debug issues within the system or in downstream dependencies, working with other teams to resolve issues.
• Knowledgeable: cloud native microservices architecture, data architecture, analytics, software/application architecture, modern cloud security

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelors Degree in a Technical Discipline or equivalent work experience 
• At least 5 years of experience in software engineering, designing, architecting an enterprise solution
• 4+ years integrating with REST APIs 
• 4+ years experience working with Public Clouds (Google Cloud Platform)
• 4+ years of experience working with Kubernetes and containerized platforms
• Strong computer science fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures & algorithm
• Strong believer in Infrastructure as Code 
• Experience with designing and implementing multi-tenant SaaS systems
• Experience with cloud-based technologies and cloud adoption at the enterprise scale
• Ability to document and publish recommendations and guidance

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with designing distributed systems in consideration of performance, responsiveness, concurrency, availability, supportability, observability
• Platform engineering experience: PostgresSQL, GitOps, CI/CD, K8s, Open Container Initiative (OCI) test infrastructure, Bazel, Golang, LaunchDarkly, Okta
• Familiarity with collaboration and issue tracking using GitHub

General knowledge, skills and abilities 

• Google Cloud Platform
• Familiarity using and participating in open-source projects 
• In-depth knowledge of end-to-end systems development life cycles (including agile, iterative, and other modern approaches to software development) 
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization (e.g., executive, management, individual contributors) 
• Ability to estimate work effort for stories and epics, and ensure the milestones are successfully completed 
• Ability to guide and advise on best practices for architecture and design based on previous experience 
• Positive outlook, strong work ethic, and responsive to internal and external customers and contacts 
• Willingly and successfully fulfills the role of teacher, mentor and coach 
• Knowledge of networking, computing platform, storage, database, security, middleware, network and systems management, and related infrastructure technologies and practice