Golang Platform Development Lead

1 month ago

Los Angeles, California, United States TEKsystems Full time

**THIS IS A CONTRACT POSITION**

**CANNOT SPONSOR AT THIS TIME**

DESCRIPTION:

The Platform Development Lead role offers compelling technical challenges to build and enhance backend services delivering business capabilities to frontend teams across web, mobile, and connectedTV and an opportunity to lead a newly defined and talented team. This role will influence strategic engineering direction as we take Locals News to exciting spaces.

As the team lead, you are responsible for the platform development squad. You will support your team members, provide them with opportunities to develop their career, and write code alongside them. You are an expert problem solver and the go-to person to address roadblocks, conflicts, and miscommunication. You will

maintain engineering quality, track team productivity, and control the pace of software development to meet business goals.

You will understand in great detail how FTS systems work and interact with other internal systems at our client and develop solutions with your team to help FTS meet its digital business goals..

RESPONSIBILITIES:

● Collaborate with platform developers, frontend development teams, QA, product managers, and delivery managers to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain the FTS backend services with the highest quality standards

● Maintain high standards of software quality within the platform team by establishing best practices and habits

● Proactively pursue sources of requirements to document technical details and dependencies to tee up work for the team

● Advocate for solutions that take quality, app performance, backwards compatibility, tech debt and development resources into strict consideration

● Document design specifications in Confluence including diagrams where needed to adequately convey the full scope of the solution design

● Create mock responses in Postman to allow front-end teams to work on features in parallel with backend development of services

● Maintain the health and fidelity of the FTS backend services by advocating for and executing code improvements and paying off technical debt

● Provide technical leadership to teammates through peer review, coaching and mentorship

● Prepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of software

● Design, develop, and unit test backend services in accordance with established standards and industry best practices

● Package and support deployment of builds and releases with team members and other affected parties

● Actively participate and prepare for sprint ceremonies, quarterly planning, meetings, discussions, and

work sessions with both the development team and engineering leadership

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

● Work closely with delivery managers, QA, product managers, and our client Technology teams to manage the delivery of technical solutions from requirements analysis through design and delivery

● Take responsibility for ensuring that technical risks and issues are identified and managed closely

● Address team issues quickly and directly, particularly when it comes to personnel or non-engineering related issues

● Work with the Director of Engineering in enabling an effective and efficient software engineering operation

REQUIRED:

● Strong proficiency in Golang programming language, including knowledge of Goroutines, channels, and error handling

● Familiarity with containerization technologies like Kubernetes

● Comfortable with developer tools including Postman, Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Datadog

● In-depth knowledge of RESTful API design principles and practices

● Demonstrable problem-solving skills

● Professional experience leading development teams

● Detail-oriented and strong work ethic

● Clear and thoughtful communication

● Thrive on collaboration

DESIRED:

● Have an eagerness to learn new things

● Experience working within a mixed engineering organizations including local, remote, and vendor resources

● Experience using agile methodologies for software development

● Competency in Terraform for provisioning and managing infrastructure

● Solid working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, distributed computing, and microservices

● Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFormation

Skills:

Golang, Aws, Kubernetes, cloud, terraform, github, rest API

Top Skills Details:

Golang,Aws,Kubernetes,cloud,terraform,github,rest API

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Golang

terraform

infrastructure

cloud providers

Experience Level:

Expert Level

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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