The Impact Youll Make (Key Responsibilities) - Golang preferred
- Architect Distributed Backends: Own the backend system design, database schemas, and API architecture for large-scale enterprise solutions.
- High-Performance Engineering: Build and optimize highly loaded, fault-tolerant distributed systemsresolving complex bottlenecks, memory leaks, and CPU utilization challenges.
- Integrate the Cloud Engine: Seamlessly bridge application code with Google Cloud native resources, deploying microservices to containerized and serverless environments (GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions).
- Data & Streaming Performance: Design and consume clean gRPC and RESTful APIs while optimizing transactional data flows utilizing BigQuery, Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, or message brokers (Kafka/PubSub).
- Maintain the Bar: Enforce rigorous engineering governanceconducting strict code reviews, building end-to-end unit/integration testing mocks, and ensuring clean software design patterns across the cross-regional team.
- Local Market Presence: Collaborate occasionally with client technical stakeholders in the Melbourne CBD to lead architecture alignments or unpack intricate backend system requirements.
What You Bring to the Table (Requirements)
- The Tenure: 8–10 years of professional backend software engineering experience, with a solid, focus-heavy portfolio of shipping production-grade services at scale.
- Language Proficiency: Strong programming roots with hands-on proficiency in one or more general-purpose languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, C++, or Node.js), backed by an intuitive understanding of clean code and object-oriented or functional design patterns.
- Cloud-Native Blueprinting: Production experience building applications engineered explicitly for cloud environments, including deep familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes manifests, and IaC (Terraform) principles.
- The Consulting Polish: Exceptional English communication skills. You can explain complex distributed systems trade-offs (like data replication lags or network stream state-management) to an enterprise client’s engineering lead with absolute clarity.
The Market Advantage (Preferred Qualifications)
- The Go Advantage: Strong production experience writing idiomatic, highly optimized Golang services, with deep knowledge of Go's memory model, profiling tools (pprof), and concurrency primitives.
- Active Google Cloud certifications (Professional Cloud Architect or Developer) or a deep familiarity with GCP identity paradigms (IAM, OAuth, VPC Service Controls).
