Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor; Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, headquartered in Leverkusen, and areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals, seeds and biotechnology products.
Job Title: IT GoLang Developer
Location: Creve Coeur, MO 63141
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Remote
Job Description:
- The primary responsibilities of the Senior Staff Data Engineer role are to:
- Drive system design discussions and software development within our engineering teams;
- Promote software design best practices;
- Author code to contribute new features to a codebase, evolve existing features and fix defects;
- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define and refine solution requirements;
- Provide thought leadership and be a trusted technical advisor to the business;
- Communication of technical principles, solutions and recommendations with business stakeholders, product managers, and other technical leaders;
- Review code contributions from team members to provide constructive and actionable feedback;
- Collaborate with Principal Engineers and other engineering teams across the organization to ensure a cohesive and coherent architecture;
- Work with leadership and team to prospect for and evaluate impactful, purpose-fit technology to introduce to our problem-solving toolbelts;
- Mentoring of engineers and aiding their journey to become passionate experts in the craft of outstanding software;
- The preferred locations for this role are client's sites in Creve Coeur, MO; Chesterfield, MO; or Whippany, NJ; however, residence-based candidates in the US may also be considered based upon the needs of the business.
Client seeks an individual who possesses the following:
Qualifications & Competencies:
- Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or a related discipline;
- Author high-quality Golang code to deliver new features, evolve existing services, and resolve defects;
- Familiarity with API design principles (REST, gRPC) and API gateway technologies;
- Demonstrated experience with programming languages such as Python or Go;
- Deep knowledge and demonstrated experience with Google Kubernetes Engine and Google Cloud Platform;
- Knowledge of key architectural patterns, such as microservices and event-driven architecture, with a deep understanding of their related trade-offs;
- Knowledge of best practices for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD);
- Familiarity with data architecture and modeling concepts and paradigms;
- Familiarity with Observability concepts, such as Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and related tooling (e.g., Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.);
- Demonstrated experience as a productive reviewer of code, with an ability to coach others on the differentiation of style and correctness;
- Demonstrated experience with relational databases and declarative query languages such as SQL (e.g., Oracle, Postgres, etc.);
- Experience with the git version control system and related tools such as GitHub or GitLab;
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling (e.g. Terraform, etc.);
- Familiarity with the publish/subscribe models and supporting technologies (e.g., Apache Kafka, Google Pubsub, AWS SNS/SQS, etc.);
- Proven experience in designing, building and running large-scale systems
Nice-to-Haves:
- At least 7 years of demonstrated experience with programming languages such as Python or Go;
- Demonstrated experience migrating Python codebases to Go
- Strong understanding of cloud-native security best practices;
- Strong understanding of DevOps best practices;
- Direct experience implementing service meshes (e.g., Istio) in Kubernetes environments;
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and concepts with direct experience deploying software using the Kubernetes control plane;
- A demonstrated understanding of Machine Learning and Generative AI concepts;
- Knowledge of the agricultural domain.
TekWisen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Job Tags
Temporary work, Remote work, Worldwide,