golang developer

Join us as a Senior Golang Developer

(Remote Working, Full-time, Permanent)

About Capita

At Capita, we support clients across a range of sectors, including local Government, central Government, education, transport, health, life and pensions, insurance and other private sector organisations. We support with expertise applied by the talent across our business in combination with technology, insight and analytics to keep our clients ahead of change, sharper than competitors and more efficient than ever – and we always need new talent to help us achieve our goals.

The Role

Our tech stack consists of React, React Native and Flutter applications communicating using GraphQL to microservice containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. The majority of our services is written in Golang with stream processing in Java, they use gRPC for communication, achieve high scalability thanks to Apache Kafka based event-driven architecture, persist data to a mix of RDBS and No-SQL databases including PostgresDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, S3 and Elasticsearch. We follow CI/CD and agile methodologies to deploy into production multiple times per week.

Essential

·       Full hands-on technical experience

·       Team Lead experience 

·       Proficiency in:

o  Golang

o  Protobuf/gRPC

o  RDBMS and NoSQL database

o  Microservices architecture concepts

o  Container-based architecture: Docker, Kubernetes

o  Advanced use of git

o  Use of Unix systems commands

Nice to have

·       AWS stack experience

·       Exposure to GraphQL

·       Postgres and MongoDB

·       Ability to perform basic DevOps tasks

·       Experience using Kafka

·       EFK stack

·       ElasticSearch

Responsibilities

·       You will be developing robust microservices to form the heart of a SaaS platform to serve globally distributed users.

·       Follow Golang best practices to deliver and support the production-ready industry quality code.

·       Responsible for the full lifecycle of services. Developers will take the services they build from design, through implementation and into production.

·       Continuous improvement of all development and deployment processes.

·       Successful delivery of your services into production.

·       Regular and clear communication of progress to the squad product owner and technical lead.

We look forward to hearing from you and wish you the very best of luck with your application.