Senior Developer-- API Services

Company DescriptionTrueTandem's mission is to be a trusted information technology solutions provider, committed to the success of our customers, communities and employees. To enable this mission, we listen to our customers’ needs, empower our dedicated and talented employees, envision success together, and deliver innovative cost-effective solutions. For our customers, we aim to deliver more power to meet their business outcomes through technology implementation, integration, optimization and customization. We enable some of the most well-known companies, nonprofits and federal agencies in the United States to intelligently plan and develop their applications, modernize their infrastructure and manage their data.The Senior Developer will play a key role in developing and maintaining backend APIs that support the content delivery systems that support internal customers as well as public consumer products. You will be expected to design and deliver large scale, fault tolerant and highly available architectures. Golang, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and Terraform are a few of the technologies you will use to deliver these services.If you have a passion for rapid API development, automation, AI, learning new things, challenging and bettering your peers, and want to work in a dynamic DevOps environment, we would love to talk to you!You will:Design, develop, and deploy backend APIs in Golang that deliver content to our front-end teams and ultimately to millions of readersAutomate everything, containerize applications with Docker, deploy and scale those containers using k8s, configure clusters and alerts using TerraformLeverage leading public cloud providers’ tools and services to create efficient, performant, and modern application architecturesDiscover new tools and techniques to optimize cost, deployment speed, developer effort, and resource usageReview PRs and use them as an opportunity to mentor other developers on the teamParticipate in Agile ceremonies and plan for sprints with a two-week cadenceProvide operational support for our applications including participation in the team’s on-call rotationHelp establish, improve, and advocate best practices around our application and infrastructure monitoring. You want to:Collaborate to design and implement well-tested, performant applications with an emphasis on concurrencyUse and leverage Agile methodologiesShip API solutions implementing GraphQL and REST at scale via a collection of servicesWrite scalable software using Golang (experience with Ruby, Node, Python or similar languages/environments is a plus.)Automate deployment and scaling using Terraform and KubernetesDid we mention testing? You will be creating a lot of effective unit and integration tests. We would love you to have:Experience as a self-starter that thrives in a remote-friendly environmentAt least 2 years' experience creating and maintaining software platforms and deployments. We believe in DevOps - We run what we buildExperience developing APIs, SDKs, and CLI toolingExperience with Agile methodologies, test driven development, CI/CD, and version controlExperience building and enhancing configuration driven systems using tools like Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Salt or other comparable technologies. Additional InformationTrueTandem is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and affords equal opportunity to all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to protected veteran status, qualified individuals with disabilities and all individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or any other status protected under local, state or federal laws.Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Females/Disabled/VeteransWe may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.