Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Akoya is a company seeking an experienced software engineer with a strong attention to detail and the ability to communicate complex concepts effectively. In this role, you will write maintainable code, lead technical projects, monitor production issues, and collaborate with teams to deliver high-quality features.
Responsibilities
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code optimized for performance and scalability to handle high-volume traffic
- Scope and lead medium to large technical projects that align with Akoya’s broad strategic initiatives
- Monitor and debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define API requirements and deliver high-quality features
- Grow the team via mentorship and leadership, reviewing technical documents and code changes
Skills
- 10+ years of professional hands-on experience designing and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems. Demonstrated experience with Golang is required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong software engineering skills and a passion building scalable and performant systems
- Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
- Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome
- Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems internals (e.g. filesystems, system calls), and with networking and cloud systems
- Experience with container and serverless architectures (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Development and/or Operations experience with a production AWS environment
- Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
- Experience with message queues and event driven architectures (e.g., ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ)
- Knowledge of observability tools like Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
- Experience with AWS services (DynamoDB, ElasticacheEC2, SQS, SNS, etc..)
Company Overview
Akoya transforms the way people share their data by making it more secure, private, reliable, and transparent. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.akoya.com/.