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Lightspeed Systems · 22 hours ago

Software Engineer (Go/Golang)

Austin, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

3+ years exp

Lightspeed Systems is a leader in K-12 learning technology, seeking multiple software engineers to join their Development team. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining software solutions while collaborating with various departments to address customer challenges.

EdTechEducationInformation TechnologyMobile DevicesNetwork SecuritySoftware

No H1B

Responsibilities

Identify and uphold Full stack engineering best practices

Collaborate with designers & product managers to iterate on the design & implementation of our product

Work with Engineers from our consumers to build and ship features

Design a framework for creating services that grows with the needs of the company

Monitor performance, watch for traffic drops related to usability problems & rectify the issues

Review app and feature code, and plan future API upgrades with the development team

Assist in the development of applications & features that will be put on the website, mobile app, and external client apps

Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies

Work with with modern libraries and tooling

Strong analytical problem solving skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills

Self-starter with strong initiative, quality deliverable and ability to work under pressure

Business-minded approach to time, costs, and deadlines

Demonstrated ability to work well within a team environment

Qualification

Go programmingMicroservices architectureRESTful APIsSQLNoSQL databasesJavaScript programmingDockerCI/CDMessaging architecturesAnalytical problem solvingBusiness-minded approachTeam collaborationWritten communicationVerbal communicationSelf-starter

Required

3+ years of experience developing large scale web applications using GO and Javascript

Experience with modern libraries and tooling

Significant GO and Javascript programming skills and data structures

Significant Microservices architecture and development skills

Significant knowledge of SQL Database and NoSQL Databases (Oracle, Postgres, Cassandra)

Significant experience in Messaging architectures & development- Kafka or equivalent

Proven Experience in building RESTful APIs and a deep understanding of REST principles

Proven Experience working with Docker or similar technologies, GIT, CI/CD and writing unit/integration tests

Strong analytical problem solving skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills

Self-starter with strong initiative, quality deliverable and ability to work under pressure

Business-minded approach to time, costs, and deadlines

Demonstrated ability to work well within a team environment

Preferred

Proven Experience Cloud Platforms like Azure or Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Experience in programming using JavaScript, Node and React ecosystem is a plus point

Familiarity with developing e-commerce application modules such as Catalog setup and Search (Solr, ElasticSearch etc.)

Proven Experience with Continuous integration, Continuous delivery and Continuous deployment

Experience architecting and building high volume, fault-tolerant, highly available, and globally distributed systems in a cloud-native environment

Experience with Agile development methodologies

Familiarity with A/B testing, monitoring, and alerting

Energetic, flexible, collaborative, team player and good interpersonal skills

A passion for keeping up-to-date with the latest cloud trends and technologies

Benefits

Health-- Medical, dental and vision insurance with healthy company contribution toward premiums. Lightspeed kicks cash into your HSA if you participate in our HDHP.

Wellness-- Paid parental leave. Healthy holiday and PTO policy, including Christmas to New Year’s Day break.

Retirement-- 401(k) matching up to 6%

Other -- Work from where it makes sense. Pet insurance.