Senior Go Engineer

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Go Engineer to join our team full-time in Canada.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Senior Go Engineer, become a part of our engineering team. Our mission is to help people save money on the prescription drugs they need to get healthy lives and make healthcare more accessible and affordable. As a Senior Go Engineer, you will be responsible for development and maintenance of tools, back end services and APIs that power our onboarding flows and internal systems. In this role you will be involved in the design, implementation, deployment and operations of new or existing tools, services and APIs needed to support new product functionality. You’ll also be collaborating with other engineering teams.
The ideal candidate will be able to quickly turn ideas into production-ready solutions in a fast- paced and friendly environment. You should also be comfortable learning new technologies as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Be a team player, mentor, teach, collaborate, and learn from those around you
• Design, implement, and maintain highly scalable and performant services
• Continually improve the codebase and test coverage through refactoring, unit testing, system testing, automating deployment and operations
• Maintain an understanding of the business requirements and work closely with stakeholders to understand what they need and why
• Make smart engineering and product decisions based on data analysis and collaboration
• Help improve engineering standards and processes
• Bring an agile, iterative, and curious mindset to every challenge
• Be a subject matter expert who others both in your squad and beyond will turn to

Requirements:

• 7+ years of professional experience working as an engineer
• Significant experience designing, building, deploying, operating, and maintaining cloud-based web services and microservices (AWS experience preferred)
• Extensive experience with Go
• Well build TypeScript and Kafka knowledge
• Strong experience with relational and non-relational database technologies
• Experience with containers, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Hands on exposure with serverless technologies (Lambdas)
• Experience with log shipping, distributed tracing tools, and service monitoring systems (Datadog, Sumo Logic, Cloudwatch, Sentry, etc…)
• Knowledge of front-end development (React or other) is beneficial
• Knowledge of Javscript/Typescript and GraphQL is beneficial
• Proven debugging/troubleshooting skills
• Deep understanding and knowledge of component-level and application-level design patterns
• Several years of experience with agile methodologies and rapid iteration cycles
• Habits which exhibit the best practices of agile quality and testing methods (TDD, BDD, Unit Testing and Automation, iterative development)
• Ability to deal with ambiguous and complex project requirements
• Effective verbal and written communicator
• Strong Linux fundamentals

What’s in it for you?

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
• Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
• Care: Healthcare, Basic Life Insurance, Short and Long-term disability insurance according to the Company’s Benefit Plans

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress. Now expanding across Canada, we’re looking for talented professionals to strengthen our North American footprint. Join us to innovate at scale and deliver world-class solutions to global clients.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

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

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