Backend Engineer (Golang)

Top 3 reasons to join us

• A leading digital health company in Asia
• 9 markets and 14 different languages
• Professional international working environment

Job description

The Purpose of Your Role

As a backend developer, we expect you to be responsible for

1. Ensure the existing systems perform correctly, efficiently and securely
2. Develop backend APIs for product features
3. Work effectively with cross functional teams and your team

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with your Product Manager to gain a deep understanding of project requirements and feature specifications.
• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain backend services and frameworks for building microservices.
• Effectively manage individual project priorities, meet deadlines, and deliver high-quality results.
• Enhance engineer productivity by developing and maintaining shared libraries.
• Offer robust, scalable technical solutions to address feature requirements.
• Assume full ownership of your service, leading its development and maintenance, while actively engaging with the team.
• Cultivate a strong team spirit by being a collaborative, open-minded, and supportive team player

Your skills and experience

Must-have Qualifications

• A minimum of 2 years of experience in Golang or a strong ability to quickly adapt to it.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing APIs and backend services, utilizing various relational and NoSQL databases.
• Understanding of CI/CD practices, Docker containers, and Kubernetes.
• Solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
• Familiarity with communication protocols like gRPC, RESTful, and GraphQL.
• Proficiency with code versioning tools, such as Git/Gitlab.
• Exposure to at least two data systems, including but not limited to Postgres, MongoDB, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka, and TimescaleDB. 
• Familiarity with fundamental design principles for creating scalable applications.

Nice-to-have Qualifications

• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization mechanisms across multiple systems, servers, and environments.
• Familiarity with PHP or Python programming languages.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, including JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Experience with Microservices architecture and event-driven systems.
• Experience in benchmarking and performance optimization to ensure efficient and responsive services.
• Experience implementing trace logs, monitoring systems with Grafana, and utilizing ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for log management.

Why you'll love working here

• The opportunity to learn and work with some of the best Entrepreneurs and Business people in the World. Giving you insight into all aspects of building a high growth successful tech company.
• A highly challenging environment with diversified tasks and direct ownership.
• A position with significant and high-growth opportunities.
• An international, dynamic and highly motivated team with a flat hierarchy.
• The chance to shape the digital health care landscape and impact millions of people for the better.
• Competitive compensation package based on experience.

We are building an environment with every member having equal say in how we run our projects, our technologies and our product decisions. We want all members to grow with the company through hands-on projects and industry best practices.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. If you have what we are looking for and would love to join our team, we want to hear from you and will be in touch!