Staff Software Engineer at Druva in Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland

Job description

• At Druva we are committed to building unique highly scalable next-gen software using the latest technologies and services from AWS. Our Druva resiliency cloud is built using serverless technology on Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora DB, and S3 and utilizes or integrates with 30 other AWS services.
• The emphasis is on scale. We provide Petabyte level storage solutions for some of the largest companies in the world, including many top fortune 50 companies, with industry-leading performance all through a SASS-enabled suite of products. Through partnership with AWS we pursue and drive innovation, and look to optimize our technology with new AWS services as they are released.
• We are looking for a Software Engineer, with Golang being the prominent experience requirement for the role. Reporting to the Director of Engineering, your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central platform, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. Ideally, the right candidate will focus on software delivery best practices through the Agile methodology.

Responsibilities

• Develop software modules for various parts of the system
• Writes design documents and proposes design solutions
• Leverages AI to accelerate world class software delivery
• Demonstrates strong understanding of software engineering processes such as agile methodologies, code-reviews, writing functional specifications
• Understands and maintains existing code-base, adds features, fixes bugs, re-factors existing code
• Solves challenging technical problems
• Collaborates with team members and cross functional product teams
• Writes well-designed, efficient, testable code
• Demonstrates strong knowledge of data structures
• Demonstrates good understanding of development tools such as version control, effort management and ticketing and compiling and generating builds
• Seeks help and advice from others when stuck to resolve existing issues at the earliest
• Gathering & understanding and breaking down requirements
• Provide technical mentorship to team members
• Demonstrates a strong passion to learn
• Possesses excellent interpersonal skills including communication and assertiveness
• Estimates work assigned to self

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience with recognized and applicable industry certifications
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working as a software engineer
• Proficiency with Golang; NodeJS and Python a bonus
• Experience in Cloud Technologies (preferably AWS, Azure)
• Experience of microservice development and containerization
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
• Ability to Create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit test
• Good understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• AWS Accreditation a plus

Skills

Required

• Golang
• Microservice development
• Containerization
• Accessibility and security compliance
• User authentication and authorization
• Scalable application design principles
• Database schema creation
• Git

Preferred

• NodeJS
• Python
• AWS Accreditation