TextNow · nan, · Hybrid
About the job
What You'll Do
- Develop and Maintain Core Backend Services taking responsibility for helping to guide the architecture, design, and implement new & existing microservices
- Maintain a High Bar of Quality for the team, producing readable code, writing testable code, refactoring legacy systems, actively contributing to development standards and cross-team architectural reviews
- Participate in a Rotating On-Call, responsible for service uptime, availability of critical functions, and performing root cause analysis of incidents to identify steps towards lasting remediation
- Foster Growth of fellow team members by mentoring them and nurturing their technical skills, empowering them to become exceptionally practical Sofware Developers
- Organize and Communicate the technical details of upcoming projects through our architectural review process
- Collaborate with other backend teams in guiding the development of our shared libraries
- Creator of Cool Stuff with a passion for efficiency at scale, leveraging Golang or another strongly typed language along with the computing power of Cloud services
- Brilliant Collaborator who excels at connecting with team members, transforming complex ideas into clear insights, while actively listening to foster a collaborative environment.
- ActsDecisivelyto take actions that efficiently deliver value to our customers and business stakeholders alike
- Takes Ownership of project with the ability to drive them tocompletion
- Respectfully Candid with the ability to tactfully give/receive feedback with various teams across the organization
- Self-Starter who actively identifies areas of improvement and provides realistic solutions
- Resourceful and Scrappy with the ability to be strategic, roll up your sleeves, execute, and work cross-functionally
- Versatile Technologist always interested in learning something new
- Strong Experience in developing API services and shared packages using Golang
- Experience with infrastructure as code tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes, or others)
- Ability to apply design principles and methodologies for building scalable and high-performance backend architectures
- Production Experience using relational and nonrelational database technology (MariaDB, RDS, DynamoDB, Redis)
- Familiarity with asynchronous event processing (Kafka, SQS, or others)
- Experience delivering quality production level microservices, using gRPC or REST
- Experience utilizing CI build platforms (GitHub Actions or similar)
- Experience with telecommunication (i.e. calling/messaging)
- Experience with migrating from legacy stacks (i.e. PHP, Ruby)
- Experience building applications using Kafka for event processing