[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alpha Search Advisors is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join their dynamic engineering team within the Technology Center of Excellence. The role involves driving the design, development, and deployment of innovative software solutions to eliminate identity fraud while mentoring junior engineers and ensuring high-quality product delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and debug components for distributed systems that operate at large scale and high speed
• Own and drive nonfunctional requirements such as scalability, availability, and security
• Develop and maintain unit and integration tests, achieving robust code and functional coverage
• Produce enterprise-class documentation for internal and external collaboration
• Break down complex tasks into manageable components, plan, and execute effectively
• Collaborate with team members to elevate technology standards and consistently apply best practices
• Participate actively in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software solutions

Skills

• 5-7 years of significant hands-on coding experience with Golang, preferably in a product development environment
• Strong programming and design fundamentals, with excellent problem-solving and coding skills
• Exceptional analytical and reasoning abilities, with a talent for visualizing processes and outcomes
• Passion for continuous learning and growth while building high-performance systems, with a solid understanding of concurrency and multi-threading
• Experience architecting microservices and developing RESTful APIs
• Prior experience with high-throughput, low-latency storage, cloud computing, NoSQL databases, big data analytics, machine learning services, or large-scale systems

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