Senior Backend Engineer – Go

Job Description

hatch I.T. is partnering with a Counter-UAS solution provider to find a Senior Backend Engineer. See details below:

About the Role:
The company is seeking a Senior Back End Software Developer with relevant experience to join the development team in Warrenton, Virginia. The role is primarily focused on the development & integration of the company’s C2 products for US Customers and Partners.

About the Company:
Work with cutting-edge technology, making the world a safer and more secure place. This company offers an opportunity to solve some of the world’s most challenging technical problems in Electronic Warfare, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, RF sensing, Sensor Fusion, and distributed systems. Working with high-profile customers across militaries, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure, law enforcement and many others, in over 100 countries around the world. Be part of a well-funded and agile organization, as a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team. They have a flat organizational structure, and the best candidates will be both creative lateral thinkers and doers. Their technical pursuits require us to take advantage of the absolute latest in technology and best practices to remain competitive.

Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations:

• Contribute to the development of our C2 product to meet the demanding operational requirements in real-world deployments aligned to the long-term product vision
• Build features and improvements from conceptualisation to realisation working closely with the global software engineering team
• Implementation of integrations with US-based sensors, effectors, BMS platforms, and enterprise and DoD customer environments, in close collaboration with the global C2 architecture team.
• Take operational responsibility for the services and code base that you will develop

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• More than 5 years’ experience in software development
• Experience developing with Golang, or relevant typed languages (C++/Rust)
• Experience with gRPC is ideal
• Experience working with two or more from the following: distributed and parallel systems, Unix/Linux environments, web application development , developing large software systems, and/or security software development
• Experience developing microservices infrastructure is ideal
• Previous ‘start-up’ or ‘scale-up’ experience is favourable
• You are a lifelong learner. You’re self-taught and continuously learning. You are interested in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise
• You are experienced working with modern infrastructure and tools
• You are comfortable running your software in Linux environments
• You know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery, defensive programming and automated testing
• You’re familiar with designing and building distributed and scalable systems
• An abundance of ambition and motivation to grow the company and compete with the big players in the industry