Senior Software Engineer - GO Experienced Preferred

Building the next generation of Mimecast protection products

Be on the cutting edge as we build the next generation of Mimecast’s “Work Protected” product line, building on the X1 platform to deliver seamless protection across all the communication and collaboration tools used by our customers.

Why Join Our Team?

“If you want to be on the front line of building the next generation of cloud native security software that delivers protection for 42,000 customers across 1.7 billion emails and countless file and chat transfers every day, the email and collaboration product team is for you!”

What You’ll Do

We’re building a new squad in our Mississauga office, working across the whole stack to build new components and features to expand our next-generation Cloud Integrated platform and suite. We are looking to build a team that can work independently across the whole stack of backend services– Go, Java and Python – you will be an expert in at least two of these, and ideally all three! You will work closely with Architects, Product Managers, and other engineering teams around the world to solve problems at scale.  You will be deeply engaged and hands-on in the full development lifecycle from designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, monitoring, and improving our products and engineering process.

 Your responsibilities will include:

• Work closely with Product Management, UX designers, X1 platform engineers, architects, QA engineers and the larger engineering team to deliver high quality product features in the cloud.
• Deliver services and components through CI/CD and automated testing
• Craft resilient, secure, and efficient code, ensuring optimal performance and minimal downtime.
• Be part of rota that includes the entire team to remediate issues in production if needed
• Foster innovation in the team to solve day to day challenges
• Mentor and guide other engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and professional growth.
• Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for architectures, processes, and procedures.

What You’ll Bring:

• Demonstratable ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment, mentoring junior team members and contributing to a positive team culture.
• At least two and preferably all of
  • Experience in building cloud based microservices in Python
  • Experience in building cloud based microservices in Java
  • Experience in building cloud based microservices in Go
• Hands-on experience with Jenkins and building/maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven experience in designing, developing, and optimizing backend systems for data processing at scale within AWS
• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with AWS services, such as; S3, IAM, CloudWatch, ECS, Lambda etc. Knowledge and experience on Kubernetes is desirable
• Experience with high concurrency applications, multithreading, low-latency, servers architectures
• Experience in Agile environment using approaches such as Scrum

What We Bring

Join our Email and Collaboration Security team to accelerate your career journey, working with cutting-edge technologies and contributing to projects that have real customer impact. You will be immersed in a dynamic environment that recognizes and celebrates your achievements.

Mimecast offers formal and on the job learning opportunities, maintains a comprehensive benefits package that helps our employees and their family members to sustain a healthy lifestyle, and importantly - working in cross functional teams to build your knowledge!

We believe in ‘growth that’s good, we have ‘a culture that cares’ and we are on a ‘mission that matters’.

Our Hybrid Model: We provide you with the flexibility to live balanced, healthy lives through our hybrid working model that champions both collaborative teamwork and individual flexibility. Employees are expected to come to the office at least two days per week, because working together in person:

• Fosters a culture of collaboration, communication, performance and learning
• Drives innovation and creativity within and between teams
• Introduces employees to priorities outside of their immediate realm
• Ensures important interpersonal relationships and connections with one another and our community!