Senior Software Engineer (GO/PHP)

Fleet
5 days ago
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At CV-Library, we have a simple vision: to help the world to work and we are looking for exceptional and talented people to help us realise this vision in both UK and overseas markets.

We are in a period of accelerated growth, following a year of key strategic acquisitions and significant investment across all parts of the business from Tech and Data to People and HR, there's never been a more exciting time to join us or a better place to grow your career!

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Go Engineer to join our team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for directing software development projects, producing clean code and coaching junior members of the team. You will possess extensive experience in software development, project management and have in-depth knowledge of programming languages and databases. If you are passionate and experienced software engineer, we want to hear from you!

What your day will look like:

Working with Product, Architecture and the Principal Software Engineers to explore and suggest appropriate technical solutions to achieve the required product features
Stay informed of new features and technologies as they relate to software operations
Provide technical and procedural guidance to others on new software features and systems
Improve upon existing software and systems
Work on all stages of a software system's lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, delivery and eventual maintenance
Implement software features, fix bugs and optimise performance
Produce reports describing usage, capabilities and defects of software systems
Serve as an engineering leader and coach to other software engineers
Create, update and maintain technical documentation
Remain up-to-date on industry standards, emerging technologies and best practice methodologies
Work with the engineering and operations teams to ensure projects are delivered on time and adhering to our standardsRequirements

Essential

Exceptional experience with Go
Experience with Go HTTP frameworks such as Echo, Gin or Gorilla Mux
Excellent knowledge of Testing Frameworks
Excellent communication and coaching/mentoring skills
Strong problem-solving and organisational skill set
Experience delivering applications using CI/CD tools following best practices
Technology agnostic with an open mind
Self-motivated and a willingness to get stuck in
Understands the importance, the purpose and the implementation of testing (using TDD etc.)
Experience of supporting, modifying and maintaining systems and code developed by teams other than your own
Demonstrable experience developing software in micro-services paradigm
An ability to effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
Strong knowledge of search theory, search methods, query understanding, named entity recognition, word-sense disambiguation, language modelling, parsing, syntax trees, dependency graphs
Practical work experience using machine learning techniques to improve Search capabilities
Ability to analyse large data sets and develop insights that will improve our software and the customer experienceDesirable

4+ years programming experience
Experience with working within an Agile environment
Ethical professional who is aware of their work's impact on society
Experience with Cloud solutionsBenefits

We are actively committed to promoting a fully diverse and inclusive workforce and we welcome applications for this role from all candidates who meet the key requirements. Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you require any reasonable adjustments to assist with your application

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