Senior Go Developer

Important Information 

Location: Brazil
Job Mode: Full-time 
Work Mode: Work from home

Job Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer Backend you will be part of a fast-paced, collaborative team developing our attack surface intelligence capabilities. You will be a critical contributor to the development and integration of reconnaissance technologies and products while also moving forward the state of engineering best practices in our cybersecurity platform. If you enjoy pivoting between different problems and meeting new challenges every day while developing solutions that are mission critical to the organization, this role is for you!

Responsibilities and Duties

• Develop and integrate cybersecurity testing and analysis systems with best-in-class cybersecurity platform;
• Build high-performance, resilient, scalable cloud-based software, microservices architecture and containers;
• Take software through CI/CD all the way to production and own its quality and availability;
• Utilize GCP platform to build and run highly-available software systems;
• Identify and resolve performance issues across systems and components;
• Collaborate on a cross-functional team, working with Product, Operations, and Platform Engineering;
• Integrate monitoring and alerting capabilities with backend modules to allow proactive improvements to availability and response times;
• Design, implement and deliver well-tested, scalable, highly available systems;
• Own and ideate technical solutions for product requirements and user stories;
• Actively engage and participate in design and code reviews;
• Offer guidance and support to junior team members, encouraging and cultivating a culture of continuous learning within the team

Essential Skills

• Experience in distributed-systems and backend software engineering;
• Strong Golang Required;
• Strong experience and understanding of microservices, REST API design, gRPC, unit testing, BDD testing;
• Strong design skills required – UML is a bonus; exposure to Domain Driven Design desirable;
• Experience with asynchronous messaging technologies such as Google PubSub, Kafka;
• In depth knowledge of NoSQL and RDBMS technologies;
• Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Environments (GCP preferred);
• Experience working on agile teams;
• Experience developing scalable and observable microservice-based applications
• Experience with GitOps and DevOps principles, practices and tools;
• A proven ability to thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Advanced English skills.

Highly Desirable Skills

• Interest in security / penetration testing;
• Interest in GenAI and LLM technologies.

About Encora

Encora is the preferred digital engineering and modernization partner of some of the world’s leading enterprises and digital native companies. With over 9,000 experts in 47+ offices and innovation labs worldwide, Encora’s technology practices include Product Engineering & Development, Cloud Services, Quality Engineering, DevSecOps, Data & Analytics, Digital Experience, Cybersecurity, and AI & LLM Engineering.

At Encora, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and qualifications, and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.