Senior Golang engineer

Job Description

Senior Go Software Engineer who is passionate about new technologies, and wants to be part of the team developing and maintaining the QAD Champion API Backend (Golang), serving the primary AI use-cases for various products within QAD. As a part of the Engineering team, based in the US and Europe, this role will bring you great opportunities to work on various projects, technologies, with a diverse range of teams.

The Engineering team is responsible for the design, development, and deployment of the organization's core products, with a focus on efficiency and speed. We architect and implement comprehensive solutions, including tools and platforms, to address key business requirements. These solutions encompass critical areas such as provisioning, configuration, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), monitoring, service level agreements (SLAs), performance optimization, and system uptime. The team is committed to meticulous execution and collaborates extensively with a broad range of stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.

This is a regular employment role (not B2B), fully remote, located in Poland.

What you will do:

• Develop and enhance AI workflows in support of the various QAD applications.
• Complete delivery work committed during the sprint to achieve business goals.
• Help the business maintain a competitive edge by leveraging the latest AI technologies.
• Provide subject matter expertise during incidents to resolve customer issues quickly.
• Participate in forums to explore interests outside of the sprint work and contribute ideas to continuously improve the system.
• Commit to the team to help the team and the wider business achieve our goals.
• Write testable and maintainable code.

Qualifications

Education: Degree in Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields

Professional experience: 5+ years

Technical skills:

• Strong Knowledge of Golang
• Knowledgeable of maintaining versioned API contracts
• API-first design using Open Api Spec (OAS)
• Relational table design with PostgreSQL
• Transactional database access with SQLC and PGX
• Uses database migration patterns, such as, “expand and contract” using go-migrate
• Writing observable and testable code using libraries such as testify and mockgen
• Publishing and consuming Avro-formatted Kafka messages
• CI/CD GitHub Actions
• Trunk-Based Development & Continuous Delivery

Soft skills:

• Good collaboration skills at all levels with cross-functional teams
• Highly developed ownerships and creative thinking
• Analytical thinking and the ability to solve complex problems
• Process orientation and ability to build effective solutions
• Time management and organizational skills
• Fluent English language skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Generating Echo handlers and models from OAS using oapi-codegen
• Launch Darkly Feature Flagging
• Docker
• AWS Cloud Services including EKS and RDS
• AWS Bedrock Knowledgebases and Agents
• AWS Sagemaker
• Generative AI Prompt Engineering

Additional Information

• Your health and well being are important to us at QAD. We provide programs that help you strike a healthy work-life balance.

• Opportunity to join a growing business, launching into its next phase of expansion and transformation.

• Collaborative culture of smart and hard-working people who support one another to get the job done.

• An atmosphere of growth and opportunity, where idea-sharing is always prioritized over level or hierarchy.

• Compensation packages based on experience and desired skill set

• COMPENSATION PACKAGE:

• Base pay range: $130,000.00 - $160,000.00 USD Annual (12 Months)

• Placement within our pay range will vary based on knowledge, skills, experience, and market location variations as well as internal peer equity

• This position is also eligible for an annual company performance bonus

• U.S. benefits package includes medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k) plan with company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, paid-time off, parental leave, and well-being programs

About QAD and QAD Redzone:

QAD Inc. is a leading provider of adaptive, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. Global manufacturers face ever-increasing disruption caused by technology-driven innovation and changing consumer preferences. In order to survive and thrive, manufacturers must be able to innovate and change business models at unprecedented rates of speed. QAD calls these companies Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises.

QAD Redzone helps to enable QAD’s vision for the Adaptive Enterprise. Labor productivity improvements directly impact efficiency. Productive and empowered employees increase the effective capacity of your plant and accelerate time to productivity for new employees giving manufacturers the agility to increase production beyond what was previously possible without having to invest in production equipment or new plants, and reduce the amount and impact of employee attrition. Empowered employees with a growth mindset take extreme ownership of challenges that impact their production goals, creating resilience in the face of disruption.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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