Fullstack Engineer - Golang

With one of the largest listed defence company market capitalisations in Australia and having raised approximately $250m in 2024 alone, Our Client is undergoing hypergrowth stage, fuelled by rapidly increasing use of drones for nefarious applications, from battlefield, to terrorism, to contraband delivery and commercial espionage.

About the role

The company is seeking a Full Stack End Engineer - Golang with a focus on back-end API experience to join a focused project team in Sydney. In this role you will improve existing functionality and performance as well as design and build new features.

Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations

• Design and develop the current systems to increase functionality and usability
• Build features and improvements from conceptualisation to realisation working closely with the software engineering team
• Build automated tests for the REST API
• Take operational responsibility for the services and code base that you will develop

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
• Between 5 years or more experience in software development
• Experience building REST APIs with Golang is mandatory
• Experience working with modern TypeScript framework, preferable React is highly regarded
• Experience working with two or more from the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, distributed and parallel systems, developing large software systems, and/or security software development
• Experience building Automated Tests with Frameworks (such as, but not limited to; httpExpect, Ginkgo, Testify) is favourable
• Experience using TypeScript is favourable
• Experience building Test Automation Frameworks with Web Browser Automation Tools (such as, but not limited to; Selenium, Cypress, Puppeteer) is favourable
• Experience developing microservices infrastructure is ideal
• Previous 'start-up' or 'scale-up' experience is favourable
• Familiarity with Docker, Postman, and GitLab are favourable
• Experience with graphing libraries and/or high-throughput real time systems is highly regarded.

Who you are

• You are a lifelong learner 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