Senior Go Developer

Company Overview

Policy Reporter offers a suite of insights products and consulting services to enhance market access strategies and patient support initiatives. By tracking payer policies in near real time, we ensure that the largest pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostics manufacturers, leading academic institutions and organized provider groups have the most up-to-date data and evidence-based guidance to help patients access the therapies they need. For more information, please visit https://www.policyreporter.com.

Role & Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to the team. Including, but not limited to:
• Code reviews
• Code guidance, mentorship on software development best practices as needed
• Architectural guidance
• Proactively identify roadblocks -- analyze situations, coordinate troubleshooting and problem solving activities, ensure proper follow up for post-incident analysis are completed and implement necessary process improvements
• Contribute to projects to achieve project goals with a mix of front-end and back-end code dependent on the specific project
• Assist as needed with technical reviews of code samples and in technical interviews
• Work towards departmental goals and objectives like improving accuracy of technical project estimates, improving critical test coverage, and overall code quality
• As a project's technical lead, collaborate with teams outside of Engineering to ensure that all stakeholders understand project goals, requirements and realistic timelines
  
  

Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years building a variety of performant, extensible and scalable applications in Go/Golang.
• Experience working with Go frameworks and libraries such as Gin, Echo, Go kit, Viper, Cobra, Logrus, Testify, GORM, etc.
• Strong understanding of Go, its benefits and pitfalls, especially around concurrency and performance.
• Experience serving as a technical lead for a team, scoping and prioritizing technical tasks and providing technical direction.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, web-scraping, headless browser scripting, proxies, etc.
• Excellent debugging, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills.
• Knows how to structure applications for long term maintenance and ongoing flexibility.
• Experience working with AWS services, RabbitMQ, Docker or similar.
• Writes tests early on and values decoupled easily testable code.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
• Great communication skills (written and verbal), and be a fast learner.
• Strong understanding of common web exploits with knowledge on how to prevent them.
• Very comfortable with PostgreSQL.
• Experience communicating directly with customers to synthesize their requirements and align it with business goals.
  
  

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package including extended health benefits, paid-time off, volunteer leave, employer-matching retirement savings, etc. and company paid Employee Assistance Program
• Excellent opportunities for personal and career development
• Collaborative and supportive company culture
  
  

Policy Reporter’s Core Values

• Excellence
• Value & Respect
• Continuous Learning
• Ownership & Accountability
• Teamwork
  
  

Policy Reporter is committed to Employment Equity. Accommodations during the recruitment process are available upon request for candidates with disabilities.