The Role

The role

The successful candidate will work within a cross functional team within our Video domain to deliver software that meets the needs of ITV's Streaming business. The ideal candidate will be a smart, kind person with a keen enthusiasm for Go. They should be able to display the aptitude and experience working with Go appropriate for a senior engineer. If they have any experience with Scala, specifically with an understanding of functional paradigms, this would be a bonus but is not required for this role. The expectation of engineers of this level would be people who can take on a piece of work and deliver it only requiring very occasional support. As a senior, you will be expected to be one of the most effective members of the team and set an example for more junior members to follow.

Main responsibilities

• Understanding the requirements of work you are asked to do
• Writing high quality software, primarily in Go. Any Scala experience would be a bonus.
• Ensuring your work is suitably tested
• Ensuring your work is suitably reviewed
• Helping shape the work
• Helping to define the technical solutions to problems
• Collaborating effectively
• Working towards a warm, welcoming, and inclusive team environment
• Sharing plans and working towards shared understanding
• Keeping your team accountable
• Mentoring and guiding more junior members of the team
• Discussing how your community works
• Helping shape community policy, e.g. testing policies, development practices, on-boarding approaches
• Helping with initiatives, e.g. the graduate programme
• Knowledge sharing
• Participating in office-hours support work
• Participating in out-of-hours support
• Thinking holistically about the software your community maintains

Skills you'll need (minimum criteria)

• Extensive experience working as a Senior Software Engineer primarily using Go
• A high level of experience in the Go programming language
• Experience building RESTful API's
• Experience with automated testing practices
• Experience mentoring less experienced members of the team
• Experience with databases
• Extensive AWS experience (Lamba, EKS etc)
• Distributed Version Control (Git)
• Web services architectures, particularly

Other things we're looking for (key criteria)

• Some functional Scala experience
• Continuous delivery / deployment principles and practices
• Unix command line and basic systems administration Desirable General Development Abilities
• Experience of agile delivery and collaborative team working
• Experience of supporting, modifying and maintaining 3rd party code
• Understanding of monitoring and performance concerns
• Understanding and application of software design and architectural patterns