OVERVIEW: We're looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our platform engineering team, working in a squad and will be focused on key business priorities, helping build a successful brand and utilising industry best tools (Golang, Event Driven Architecture and AWS Serverless technologies such as; Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, DynamoDB) to build scalable solutions to enable business expansion. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING: Working on features and bugs to help your team deliver high-quality work on time Using Golang to build and maintain APIs, services and integrations Implement event driven solutions to support critical business processes Creating, maintaining and developing CI/CD pipelines Building scalable and valuable software leveraging AWS Serverless technologies such as; Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, DynamoDB Focus on creating testable, maintainable and scalable code, following Tech standards Following an Agile development approach Maintaining existing services, ensuring a high standard of observability and proactive monitoring, in addition to responding to incidents. (Especially during peak sale periods which is critical to business success!) WHAT YOU'LL NEED: Essential Criteria: Must have experience in software engineering and writing production code in Golang or another strict typed language in a commercial engineering environment Experience working in an agile environment Experience building or maintaining scalable API's Experience using cloud based platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure) Experience using Git Experience implementing quality and testing best practices within the services you produce, such as unit testing and contract testing Preferred Skills: Experience using cloud based serverless services (such as AWS Lamba, Google Cloud Run or Azure Functions) Must have a demonstrable knowledge building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines Experience designing, setting up databases as well as have an understanding of relational and non-relational approaches An understanding of Event Driven Architecture concepts Experience understanding branching strategies CLOSING DATE: 15th December