Remote Backend Engineer Job in Reading, UK CrowdStrike

Who you are

• Being empathetic and a team player
• Bring a positive attitude a growth mindset and an eagerness to learn quickly and make steady progress
• A computer science degree or commensurate experience
• Good understanding of distributed systems scalability RESTful patterns and multithreading concepts
• Experience building and scaling services in production using Go Python Java C++ or C# or any modern OOP language
• Passion for customer success and guide decisions by always keeping the end-user in mind
• Willingness to take on ownership to fix issues as you find them without waiting to be assigned

What the job involves

• Develop Go-based microservices to support new and existing features which help detect cyber attacks as well as RESTful APIs to support customer-focused workflows
• Work on and enrich backend microservices – From researching areas of concern to implementing the final solution
• Work closely with designers product managers and engineers across product groups to understand design and implement solutions
• Challenge the status quo by continuously re-evaluating our features infrastructure and services for areas where we can improve architecture user experience performance latency or stability
• Relentlessly pursue quality by following engineering best practices including: Appropriate testing paradigms effective peer code reviews logging monitoring and resilient architecture patterns
• Utilize Kafka for event-driven workflows Redis for distributed caching and Cassandra ElasticSearch or PostgreSQL for data storage
• Provide monitoring and operational & customer support for production services owned by our team
• Be given the autonomy to own your work in a high trust environment