Senior Go Developer (WFH)

We are seeking an Senior Go Developer to bring their experience, knowledge, and passion for building great features and code to our team.

Are you looking for:
1. A long-term, work-from-home role with great pay and benefits?
2. Daytime working hours (7:30 AM - 3:30 PM, Monday to Friday)?
3. Challenging projects with opportunities to learn and grow?
4. An environment that values doing things the "right" way, rather than taking shortcuts?
5. A friendly, supportive team dedicated to delivering new projects and features?

If so, we'd love to hear from you!

Here at MachShip, we're disrupting the freight industry and building the world's premier cloud based Freight Management System. Our core product is a SaaS application using a containerised, micro-service based architecture hosted within Kubernetes. We are heavily invested in both our engineering team and the latest technology.

We are a young Australian Company with a team of over 20 developers and engineers that is looking for an experienced Go engineer to join our team. We cultivate personal development and team work here at MachShip. You would be joining a team and contributing to the team's agile sprints and working together to reach the sprint goals and deliverables. This position is 100% Work from Home (WFH) and offers fantastic flexibility.

We have several core systems written in Go and are currently building exciting, new greenfield projects in Go that will help our platform scale. In this role you will be one of the key developers of the product working with our stakeholders to create some truly ground breaking applications.


Core skills:
- An absolute passion for working with the latest and greatest tech and a voice that wants to be heard
- 3+ years experience developing in Go
- Experience working in the web space with a variety of APIs (REST, GRPC, GraphQL, etc)
- Previous experience developing and deploying applications using Docker, and preferably Kubernetes
- Experience with GitHub and Continuous Integration
- Great comprehension and communication skills


Our ideal candidate would be:
- Someone that enjoys problem solving and analysis. They are always striving to build the best solution possible
- Someone who can think for themselves and keep the customer in mind when building new features
- A developer that can take a development task from concept, design, development, testing and through to deployment


We're looking to hire for this position in our growing team very quickly, so don't wait - if you feel you are the right person for this job, send through your resume and cover letter. On your cover letter, please address each of the key skills, why you would be perfect for the role and what you would bring to the team.


Being a member of the MachShip team you will:
- Be part of an agile, innovating and energetic team that prioritises pushing the boundaries and working with the latest technologies. We have daily stand-ups, fortnightly sprints and work within an agile environment
- Develop your skill set with the latest frameworks including Kubernetes, GraphQL, Kafka, Upgrade to see actual info and Cloud infrastructure.
- Work alongside amazing developers who are also at the top of their field. We value your opinion and all voices are considered when building our product.
- We want you to be the best you can be. We have monthly one on ones and work with you to reach both your personal and professional career goals.
- Have the potential to contribute during work hours to the open source projects that we utilise, many of them written in Go.
- Be encouraged to share ideas and have a critical input into the development process.

Application Process
1. Fill out our job application form (password: "developer") : Upgrade to see actual info
2. Qualified candidates will be invited to complete a short technical assessment
3. Successful applicants will be called for an interview

Note: Applications will be screened based on suitable experience and the contents of your cover letter. Applicants should ensure their cover letter summarizes how their project experience, integration skills, and personality match the requirements outlined.

We look forward to hearing from passionate developers ready to contribute to our team!