Senior Go Developer

Why we recommend

• Long-term prospects for a professional career in a high growth company.
• Best in class technology tools to empower you to do your best work.
• Supportive, collaborative, international team environment that supports remote employees.

Responsibilities

• Build/extend/troubleshot/fix complex heterogeneous Go and Ruby applications, as well as small self-contained Go microservices.
• Improve execution engine of custom third-party code (Ruby DSL, isolation, performance, new features).
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code in Ruby and Go.
• Integration of data storage solutions Postgres/S3/DynamoDB/Kafka/ClickHouse etc.
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Provide code reviews to your teammates.
• Evaluate and propose improvements to existing system.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
• Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization.
• We always explore new technologies and work with Rust and Wasm can be foreseen.

Requirements

Technical Skills:

• Strong experience in building scalable distributed backend applications (5+ years).
• Great understanding of all building blocks of large web applications: databases, load balancers, application servers, message brokers, caching, monitoring, etc.
• Good understanding of network protocols and stacks.
• Good understanding of DB technologies: classic databases and modern no-SQL.
• Knowledge of basic data structures and algorithms and how they are used is a must.
• Multilingual programming experience: our code base is primarily in ruby, with trend to migrate to Go.
• Strong experience developing, shipping and maintaining Ruby and Rails applications, Go applications, is a strong plus.
• Excellent debugging, analytical, problem solving, and social skills.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.
• 5+ years of industry experience.

Optional Requirements:

• Background in C/C++/Linux or other system and network programming.
• Deep knowledge of physical DB design.
• Experience of working with Docker and other isolation technologies.
• Experience of working with public cloud infrastructure providers(AWS/Azure/Google Cloud).
• Experience in related fields (DevOps, ML, DBA, Enterprise applications, etc).
• Experience in building/deploying data processing pipelines is a plus.
• Experience of working with third-party REST APIs at scale (request throttling, batch processing etc).

Soft skills/ Other Requirements:

• Readiness to work remotely with teams distributed across the world and timezones.
• Spoken English (at the level enough to pass technical interview and later work with colleagues).
• Readiness to travel for business in US (Post-Covid).

What they offer

• Supportive, collaborative, international team environment that supports remote employees (currently all of us!).
• Long-term prospects for a professional career in a high growth company.
• Flexible Work culture.
• Be part of a community-oriented organization with a history of giving back.
• Best in class technology tools to empower you to do your best work.
• Support for professional development and continuous learning.
• Wellness programs, including fitness challenges and an occasional company day off to recover from Zoom fatigue.
• Company-sponsored team-bonding activities and team celebrations.
• Employee and Customer referral bonuses.