Primary Skills: Golang, MySQL, HTTP, APIs, Server Side Languages
Duration: 6 Months (Possible Extension)
Contract Type: W2 and C2C
Job Description
Do you like Golang, distributed teams, distributed systems, web performance, and smart, kind, empathic teammates. You'll be building mostly HTTP APIs, mostly in Go. These APIs control our CDNs, load balancing, and web optimization systems used across virtually all websites.
Our stack uses Go and MySQL. You don’t necessarily need to be an expert in these technologies already. We believe smart people can learn anything and are willing to train the you in our specific tools. If you're not familiar with Go, you should be able to demonstrate you'd pick it up quickly.
A typical day might involve any of the following:
- Create an API endpoint to control our performance tooling.
- Add metrics and monitoring to make our applications easier to debug and understand in production.
- Work with our configuration management systems to smooth out our deploy process.
- Give design feedback and review teammates' code.
About You
- You have at least four years of professional experience building web APIs.
- You have at least three years of professional experience with Go, Java,
- Python, Ruby, or another server-side programming language.
- You're comfortable with writing and maintaining performant SQL queries.
- You have strong written and verbal communication skills.
- You're willing to dive in to unfamiliar layers of the stack.
- You have experience with Linux systems.
- You're comfortable working on a fully remote team.
To follow up with any questions, please contact Khushbu at 408-512-2361.
Akraya is an award-winning IT staffing firm and the staffing partner of choice for many leading companies across the US. We offer comprehensive benefits including Health Insurance (medical, dental, and vision), Cafeteria Plan (HSA, FSA, and dependent care), 401(k) (enrollment subject to eligibility), and Sick Pay (varies based on city and state laws).
If this position is not quite what you're looking for, visit akraya.com and submit a copy of your resume. We will get to work finding you a job that is a better fit at one of our many amazing clients.
Akraya is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. Akraya is an equal opportunity employer; committed to a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.