Backend Developer (Ruby and Golang)

Tech Talent International (TTI) supplies technical talent to a variety of clients ranging from Fortune 100/500/1000 companies, to startups, small and mid-sized organizations in Canada/US. We are currently hiring a Backend Developer (Ruby and Golang) for our consulting client, working for a major Canadian sports broadcasting organization on a multi-year project.

Role: Backend Developer (Ruby and Golang)

Rate Range: $85 -100/hr C2C (40 hrs /week)

Duration: 12 months

Location: Remote but a visit to the office will be required 1-2 times per month. Toronto, ON, Canada

Role Overview

We're looking for an experienced Backend Developer (Ruby and Golang) to join our Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) team supporting digital streaming products.

You'll design, build and maintain the backend services and APIs that power high-traffic consumer applications and live sports experiences. You'll work in an environment where performance, scalability, availability and reliability matter, particularly during major live sporting events.

Working with developers, product, QA, infrastructure and architecture teams, you'll deliver new capabilities while helping evolve and improve the services behind our digital products.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop and maintain backend services, microservices and APIs using Ruby and Golang.

• Build scalable, reliable services supporting high-traffic digital and streaming applications.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and integrations with internal and third-party systems.
• Work with relational and non-relational databases including MySQL and Cassandra, as well as caching technologies such as Redis.
• Optimise applications and services for performance, scalability, availability and reliability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues across backend applications and services.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and DevOps teams on AWS, CI/CD, monitoring and production operations.
• Integrate with platforms and services such as authentication, subscriptions, payments, analytics, advertising and content delivery.
• Write clean, testable and maintainable code, and participate in code reviews and automated testing.
• Contribute to technical design and architecture discussions and identify opportunities to improve existing systems.
• Participate in Agile development activities including sprint planning, estimation, stand-ups and retrospectives.
• Support major live sporting events and participate in special-event production watch and support as required.

What You Bring

• Strong development experience with Ruby and Golang.
• Experience designing, building and maintaining RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL and NoSQL/distributed databases such as Cassandra.
• Experience with caching technologies such as Redis.
• Strong understanding of application architecture, database design, performance and scalability.
• Experience with automated testing, source control and modern CI/CD development practices.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, particularly in production environments.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable and well-tested code.
• Strong communication skills and experience collaborating in a cross-functional Agile team.

Nice to Have

• Previous experience working in sports broadcasting, streaming or digital media industries would be a strong asset
• Experience with AWS or another major cloud platform.

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or other containerised environments.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog, New Relic or Dynatrace.
• Experience with CDNs such as Akamai or Amazon CloudFront.
• Experience with high-traffic consumer-facing applications, streaming platforms or digital media.
• Experience with authentication, identity, entitlement or subscription services.
• Experience integrating with payment, analytics, advertising or other media technology platforms