THE ROLE
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Server) who will work in either our close-knit Nepal development team or as part of our broader engineering team working from the Hong Kong Zegal office. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced software engineer to be part of a team developing a truly innovative and high potential technology service.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Providing day-to-day leadership and hands-on work in detailed design, coding, documentation, and unit testing of certain components of the Zegal service, in particular server side components and elements of Zegal’s back office systems.
- Work with other team members to integrate software into working releases for test and eventual production deployment.
- Ongoing maintenance of components throughout the software lifecycle.
- Direction and mentoring of junior members of the team assigned to assist in development of relevant components.
- Work with Project Manager and Chief Technology Officer to plan the work programme for individual releases.
- Support DevOps staff in building and deployment of components to various environments, as well as supporting operations in testing and production as needed from time to time.
QUALIFICATIONS
Skills
- Experience with Javascript (NodeJS) and key frameworks such as RESTify and Express.
- Experience with server development with Go, and key frameworks and libraries such as Beego and Gorilla.
- Familiarity with packaging, deployment, and operational issues with container technologies, especially Docker.
- Exposure to other development and runtime environments, especially Ruby, Python, and JVM.
- Experience with version control and continuous integration tools and development of build process pipelines.
- Working knowledge of UNIX programming, including shell, POSIX APIs, sockets, and process control, including use of relevant APIs to script operations.
Experience
- 4+ years of programming experience.
- Experience as a team lead.
Languages
Education
- University degree or equivalent professional apprenticeship
Compensation
Compensation will be very competitive with market, including base salary, and benefits (e.g., stock options, additional leave, and training in our Hong Kong office).