Senior Golang Software Engineer

QAD is building a world-class SaaS company, and we are growing. We are looking for talented individuals who want to join us on our mission to help solve relevant real-world problems in manufacturing and the supply chain.

We are a virtual first company and your primary work experience will be virtual / working from your home.  Occasional travel to a physical office may be required to enhance working relationships, collaboration, design, strategy and alignment.   

At QAD we are looking for a Senior Golang Software Engineer who is passionate about new technologies, and wants to be part of the team developing and maintaining the QAD Champion API Backend (Golang), serving the primary AI use-cases for various products within QAD. As a part of the Engineering team, based in the US and Europe, this role will bring you great opportunities to work on various projects, technologies, with a diverse range of teams.

The Engineering team is responsible for the design, development, and deployment of the organization's core products, with a focus on efficiency and speed. We architect and implement comprehensive solutions, including tools and platforms, to address key business requirements. These solutions encompass critical areas such as provisioning, configuration, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), monitoring, service level agreements (SLAs), performance optimization, and system uptime. The team is committed to meticulous execution and collaborates extensively with a broad range of stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.

This is a fully remote role located in the United Kingdom.

What you will do:

• Develop and enhance AI workflows in support of the various QAD applications.
• Complete delivery work committed during the sprint to achieve business goals.
• Help the business maintain a competitive edge by leveraging the latest AI technologies.
• Provide subject matter expertise during incidents to resolve customer issues quickly.
• Participate in forums to explore interests outside of the sprint work and contribute ideas to continuously improve the system.
• Commit to the team to help the team and the wider business achieve our goals.
• Write testable and maintainable code.

Required Qualifications:

Education: Degree in Information Technology, Engineering Computer Science or related fields

Professional experience: 5+ years

Technical skills:

• Strong Knowledge of Golang

• Knowledgeable of maintaining versioned API contracts

• API-first design using Open Api Spec (OAS)

• Relational table design with PostgreSQL

• Transactional database access with sqlc and pgx

• Uses database migration patterns, such as, “expand and contract” using go-migrate

• Writing observable and testable code using libraries such as testify and mockgen

• Publishing and consuming Avro formatted Kafka messages

• CI/CD GitHub Actions

• Trunk Based Development & Continuous Delivery

Soft skills:

• Good collaboration skills at all levels with cross-functional teams

• Highly developed ownerships and creative thinking

• Analytical thinking and the ability to solve complex problems
• Process orientation and ability to build effective solutions
• Time management and organizational skills 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Generating Echo handlers and models from OAS using oapi-codegen

• Launch Darkly Feature Flagging

• Docker

• AWS Cloud Services including EKS and RDS

• AWS Bedrock Knowledgebases and Agents

• AWS Sagemaker

• Generative AI Prompt Engineering

About QAD:

QAD Inc. is a leading provider of adaptive, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. Global manufacturers face ever-increasing disruption caused by technology-driven innovation and changing consumer preferences. In order to survive and thrive, manufacturers must be able to innovate and change business models at unprecedented rates of speed. QAD calls these companies Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises. QAD solutions help customers in the automotive, life sciences, packaging, consumer products, food and beverage, high tech and industrial manufacturing industries rapidly adapt to change and innovate for competitive advantage.

QAD is committed to ensuring that every employee feels they work in an environment that values their contributions, respects their unique perspectives and provides opportunities for growth regardless of background. QAD’s DEI program is driving higher levels of diversity, equity and inclusion so that employees can bring their whole self to work.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. 

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