Backend Engineer (Golang)

REMOTE JOB /ENGINEERING – BACKEND /FULL-TIME Itex is revolutionizing how businesses leverage and enhance consumer data. Our platform (APIs, components and rules engine) enables innovative companies and developers to seamlessly integrate credit and identity data into their apps, websites or workflows. Founded by serial entrepreneurs (with several exits), we’ve been nearly doubling revenue monthly. We’re looking for passionate and creative teammates to help us scale and supercharge the company. If you’re looking for autonomy, impact and cutting-edge FinTech, we’d love to hear from you. Though fully remote, our team is the foundation of our success. We strive for diverse backgrounds, opinions and approaches. We encourage respectful dissent, digging for the truth, so that we can deliver the best product for our clients and users. Continuous improvement, experimentation and a clear mission stretch us individually and together. We are looking for a Senior Golang Engineer to join our team. We are a financial service company looking for a skilled Golang expert to join our team in order to help develop backend web services for our next generation credit portal. This is a full-time remote position. Responsibilities Build RESTful web services in Golang to be consumed by single page application(s). Use Golang best practices to help us optimize for developer productivity, reliability, and scalability. Implement business logic using both code and MSSQL stored procedures. Provide comprehensive unit and functional testing for all routes, endpoints, and features. Mentor and coach existing development team on Golang standards, tooling, and best practices. All services built will need to run in a containerized Linux environment in Docker and Kubernetes. Propose and implement caching mechanisms such as Redis to help us provide the fastest experience possible to our customers / web visitors. Participate in daily standup calls with the development team and project managers. Job requirements Significant Golang experience building web and mobile backend services. Usage of Redis for caching, message and job queues, etc. Strong javascript skills both client side and server side (NodeJS) to foster strong communication between varied project development teams. Experience as a team lead and mentoring junior Golang developers. MSSQL database using stored procedures from Golang. Building automated tests for both functions and service endpoints. Nice to have Using grpc via protobuf to accelerate communication between micro-services. Frontend experience consuming RESTful web services using any framework (React, Angular, etc). Understanding of credit bureaus, credit reports, and credit related products. Great products and great idea don't happen by accident. Our goal is to grow through the recruitment of truly exceptional people and we appreciate your application. Teamwork is the foundation of our success, and we look forward to getting to know more about you as we continue our search for a great