Arkose Labs Hiring for Senior Software Engineer – Golang Job at Brisbane, Australia Full Time

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team in Brisbane. This team is responsible for the rewrite of our services into Golang. In this role, you will review our existing code, work with the team to create user stories and work in sprints to write new code.

What you’ll be doing

• Work on one of Brisbane’s highest-traffic SaaS services running at a global scale, serving ~500 million requests per day and increasing
• Rewriting existing services into Golang
• Work on building highly-available, zero downtime, distributed software systems to help combat fraud
• Help build software that spans from the browser all the way down to analytics data pipelines
• Work within an agile, cross-functional team (SWE, SRE, QE) to build out and own services and projects, from requirements + specs to release and maintenance
• Help with migrating from a monolithic system and AWS lambdas to a microservices-based architecture running on Kubernetes

What we want from you

• Experience in a commercial environment using modern programming languages, experience with Golang required
• Experience with cloud computing (we are currently on AWS)
• NoSQL/relational database experience
• Experience with concurrent/asynchronous programming techniques
• Focus on open source, linux-based software/services and tooling
• Knowledge of web/HTTP concepts and methodologies

Nice to have

• Experience with distributed systems/computing (especially microservices)
• Good knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript – you’ll be working across the software stack
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Docker/containers/Kubernetes
• Experience with agile development (Scrum)

Why Arkose Labs?

The unique opportunity to join an early stage, high growth startup with pioneering technology built by an ambitious team who are passionate about their product and love coming to work every day.

The chance to work with some of the biggest names in the market such as Microsoft, Paypal, EA, Github, Twitch, Roblox, Twilio and Minecraft.

You will be a part of a diverse and high performing environment that values and recognizes your contributions and unique perspectives and experience: we value what you bring to the culture.

We hire the best and value integrity, excellence, respect, inclusion, and collaboration.

We value:

• People: first and foremost they are our most valuable resource. Our people are independent thinkers who make data driven decisions and take ownership and accountability in all the things they do.

• Team Work. We demonstrate respect, trust, integrity, and communicate openly with a positive can do attitude and constructively challenge one another

• Customer Focus. We empathise with our customers and obsess about solving their problems

• Execution with precision, professionalism and urgency

• Security. It’s the lens through which we implement our processes, procedures, and programs

We focus on professional growth and development and offer continuing education.

• Flexible hardware options (e.g. Mac, Linux)

• Drinks and team activities every Friday from 2pm

• Flexible working hours and working from home days

• Excellent work/life balance

• Modern office in the heart of Fortitude Valley

We are currently in a transition from a start-up to a scale-up business, are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

Company events both on and off-site as well as volunteering initiatives!

Arkose Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, colour, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Arkose Labs will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.