Golang Engineer

As a mid-level Golang Engineer, reporting to our Back-End Engineering Team Lead, you will contribute to developing our platform, used by major financial institutions in Australia. As part of the mx51 Engineering team, you'll play a key role in delivering projects and collaborating within the Back-End Engineering team.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Design, develop, and maintain high-throughput, fault-tolerant microservices to support our backend infrastructure
• Create and optimise RESTful and gRPC APIs, ensuring scalability and performance
• Implement robust data models and query optimizations for PostgreSQL databases
• Drive continuous improvement in code quality through code reviews, testing, and refactoring
• Collaborate with DevOps to containerize applications using Docker and deploy to Kubernetes clusters on AWS
• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering teams to deliver innovative solutions that meet customer needs
• Participate in agile development processes, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry best practices, recommending and implementing improvements to our tech stack

About you

• Communication - you will be effective in your written and verbal communication when interacting with your team and other stakeholders across the business.
• Problem solving - you will be open-minded, curious, and adopt a ‘seek to understand’ approach when tackling people-related challenges. 
• Expertise - You love the software engineering craft and in particular back end development. You have significantly contributed to the engineering of production-grade microservices.
• Adaptability - you adapt quickly to changes within the business environment, and positively champion these changes to your team.
• Values - you will strive to model the mx51 values at all times and across all aspects of your role.

What success looks like over the next 3 months

30 Days: Building relationships and technical onboarding

• Integrate into the Back-End Engineering team, building relationships with colleagues
• Gain an understanding of mx51's business model, product suite, and market positioning
• Complete onboarding sessions to learn about mx51's backend architecture, coding standards, and development processes
• Set up your development environment and gain access to necessary tools and repositories
• Begin familiarising yourself with mx51's backend codebase through guided code walkthroughs and documentation review
• Make your first contributions to the backend platform, such as small bug fixes or minor feature enhancements

60 Days: Contributing and understanding development process

• Actively participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and incorporating feedback into your own work
• Take ownership of small to medium-sized tasks or features, seeing them through the entire development lifecycle
• Deepen your understanding of mx51's CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
• Collaborate with the DevOps team to deploy your first changes to production
• Participate in sprint planning and estimation, contributing your insights to team discussions
• Begin exploring areas for potential optimisation or improvement in the existing codebase

90 Days: Delivering technical excellence and collaboration

• Demonstrate proficiency in mx51's tech stack by independently tackling complex issues and implementing new features
• Contribute significantly to a major project or feature release
• Proactively identify and propose solutions to technical challenges or areas for improvement
• Mentor newer team members or interns on mx51's processes and best practices
• Represent the backend team in cross-functional meetings, articulating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Receive and incorporate feedback from your manager and peers, showing measurable growth in your role
• Establish yourself as a valued team member, recognized for your technical contributions and collaborative approach