Go Developer at Brave Venture Labs

About the Work

• The ideal candidate should be able to work effectively with other developers, project lead, and quality assurance engineers to solve complex issues, build and maintain a scalable, highly available, secure, and robust system.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with an autonomous team of developers, designers, testers and product owners to find end-to-end solutions to important problems
• Build and maintain the payment solutions which could be used by millions of users in Africa
• Be involved in architectural and design discussions, building toward an efficient, extensible and secure payment system
• Improve test coverage and quality of the products

Requirements

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming languages, paradigms, constructs and idioms
• Strong knowledge of web architecture and distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of application architecture and design patterns
• Strong knowledge of concurrent programming and thread handling
• Care about quality and understand what it means to ship high-quality code
• Understand how to write scalable, robust, testable, efficient, performant and easily maintainable code
• Experience with code versioning tools such as Git
• Experience with NoSQL databases
• Experience with Agile work processes
• Self-motivated, structured, and able to take initiative as well as being creative and curious
• Autonomous working style, with eagerness to improve systems, processes, and yourself
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken, and good communication skills

Ideal Job Requirements:

• Knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, idioms, framework and tools:
  • Goroutine and channel patterns
  • Go’s templating language
  • Popular Go web frameworks, such as Gin
  • Ability to write clean and effective Godoc comments
  • Writing unit and functional tests
• Knowledge of web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Knowledge of web security
•  Knowledge of continuous integration/delivery.