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ABOUT YOU GmbH Logo
Senior Golang Developer
ABOUT YOU GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
€50,000 to €70,000 a year
December 2020
5 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old

Job Description

We are currently looking for a skilled Senior Golang Developer to join the backend team of our Shop Applications Unit.

The Shop Applications Unit constantly improves the App, Mobile Website and Desktop Website. These big-scale products are each visited by several million people every month. Our highly scalable API updates and delivers our product data for our shop frontends in real-time – in peak times with up to millions of requests per minute! In that case, it truly matters if an API call takes 200ms or 50ms to ensure the best shopping experience. The team constantly challenges itself to raise the bar of what is “state of the art” and to provide the fastest and most efficient solutions to upcoming projects.

Challenges the team will be working on in the next months:

  • Working on a new backend API with the goal to unify core business logic to significantly reduce complexity in our frontends
  • Hardening and optimization of the API for production use Finding solutions for challenges we face as we grow

What you will do

  • Develop a gRPC API in Go that encapsulates core business logic in a simple to use API for our frontend developers
  • Improve scalability and technical performance of our API and its response times
  • Work on a high-scalable product in the AWS ecosystem
  • Draft architectural decisions together with our Tech Lead and explore new technologies
  • Have a direct impact on team processes by regular agile retrospectives
  • Exchange your knowledge with other developers and be part of our ABOUT YOU TECH community

Who you are

  • You have 5+ years of experience in building complex backend API’s
  • You are very proficient in Go development
  • You have good knowledge of Elasticsearch and indexing products
  • You have experience in working with relational databases (e.g. MySQL) and key-value stores (e.g. Redis)
  • You write well-structured, efficient and maintainable code and actively keep the quality of the codebase in check
  • You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and enjoy building scalable distributed systems
  • You are used to working in an English speaking & agile environment

Nice to have:

  • You have experience in the AWS Ecosystem (Cloud Formation, Terraform, ElastiCache, etc.), Bamboo
  • You have experience with gRPC or GraphQL
  • You are familiar with centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions
  • You understand DevOps, Containerization and Cloud solutions

Benefits

  • Grow together with one of the fastest growing eCommerce companies in Europe
  • Flexible working times
  • 40% discount on our online shop
  • Fresh fruits + drinks everywhere
  • Language courses (German & English)
  • Free sports courses & reduced price for gym membership
  • Subsidized public transportation ticket
  • Free choice of hardware and operating system (Mac, Windows, Linux) also for private usage
  • State-of-the-art tech stack running on AWS
  • Modern office in the city center of Hamburg
  • International working environment and English as company language
  • Company flats (subject to availability)
  • Agile work environment (MOVE) and cross-functional teams
  • Free access to Germany’s greatest developer conference code.talks
  • Company pension scheme
  • Free Laracasts and Egghead account
  • Help in relocation and VISA process

We are looking forward to receiving your application – preferably via our online application portal! Thus, we can ensure a faster process and for you it is very easy to upload your application documents.


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Tyk Technologies Ltd Logo
Software Engineer
Tyk Technologies Ltd
Remote
£50,000 to £60,000 a year
April 2022
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old

Job Description

Who are Tyk, and what do we do?

The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services.Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!) If you’ve banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API’s, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. Founded in 2015 with offices in London, Atlanta and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe. Brands using Tyk range from Audi, Dominos, Starbucks, to the Financial Times, RBS and Societe Generale. We have a varied user base hailing from every continent – even Antarctica.

Our Mission

Tyk are committed to enabling interconnectivity between systems and between devices. We’ve started by building an API Management platform.

Total flexibility, default remote, radical responsibility

We offer unlimited paid holidays and remote working from anywhere in the world, for everyone, Why? Tyk was founded on the principle of offering flexibility and autonomy to our employees, we believe this allows our employees to achieve their best results. It also means we can build the best possible team, location and working hours are no barrier.

If this sounds like an environment that you believe could work for you then read on to find out more:

The role

Dev Exp is a key element in Tyk’s growth. We are looking for a talented engineer to join our DX team and join a very exciting ride. We are in the process of creating new devtools and solutions to cater to our broad range of users and customers. If you are an engineer that is passionate about developer experience, if you enjoy bringing new ideas to life, if you like building stuff, keen to make everything more efficient and reduce friction from engineers day-to-day work, then this is the role you always wanted!

What you will be responsible for:

Collaborate to plan, design and write APIs, OAS, documentation and code SDKs, CLIs, Tyk plugins and other devtools Consult and advise the product team with human centric approach, best DX practices and SDLC to achieve best results for the user as well as the business. Here’s what you’ll be getting up to: Create CLIs, SDKs and devtools Improve and benchmark existing tools. Be an expert in the way our users use the product and come up with ideas and solutions to improve their development velocity. Implement GitOps principles into the product offering DX research proposals and architecture Help assess and prioritise research initiatives for the product team Improving the technical content of our API Management knowledge base

**Here’s what we’re looking for:

Experience:

  • Development Experience
  • Experience in Containerisation, Kubernetes and Helm charts
  • Gitops and infrastructure automation experience
  • Familiarity with API design and API Management

Competencies:

  • Capable of designing and coding APIs, CLIs, SDKs and other supportive devtools.
  • Understand code (in a few high level programming languages), architect and design small-medium projects like devtools, SDKs.
  • Commercial awareness – understanding the marking and environment we are working in is the base for everything we do
  • Enthusiastic, self-starter and genuinely keen to learn new technologies and skills (You will need to learn our products to support the squads on the UXDX aspect)
  • Analytical mindset
  • Capable of working both independently and as part of a team

Skills:

  • Golang skills. Able to architect, design and code small projects independently
  • Knowledge of key technologies and standards in the API Management space, including topics such as OAS, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, REST, GraphQL, Service Mesh, Kubernetes, Helm charts (not everything in the list)
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Reliably works to deadlines
  • Great communication skills

Nice to have:

  • Experience in SW architecture, such as Design Patterns or High-Level System Design
  • Research knowledge. Conduct product research, user research with a full report
  • Solid experience in relevant field or industry

Benefits

Here’s why you should join us: * Everyone has unlimited paid holiday. * We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all. * Employee share scheme * Generous maternity and paternity leave * Company retreats

We all share the same vision – we value authenticity, respect, responsibility, independence, honesty, diversity and inclusion and most importantly treating others how you wish to be treated. We look for like-minded people who bring their personalities to work everyday, strive to achieve their personal goals and who are willing to challenge the way we do things, why? – to make what we do even better!

Our values tell the story of Tyk – here’s how:

It’s ok to screw up! We’ve found that it’s often the ‘stupid’ or unexpected ideas that turn out to be the successful ones – so try it, at least we can say we have!

The only stupid idea, is the untested one! It’s in our DNA – starting a business with founders 12 hours apart, giving our gateway away for free – sure, we did that, and we’d do it again!

Trust starts with you – make it count! Trust is a two-way street – instill it from day one!

Assume best intent! We have each other’s back – we’re all on the same team. Think before you speak or act.

Make things, better! Always try to leave things better than when you found them – change is constant, inevitable and embraced! Be that change we want to see.

What’s it like to work here?! check it out: https://tyk.io/worklife/

Tyk is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

You can see more about us here https://tyk.io


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Software Engineer, Backend
Mercari Inc
Tokyo, Japan
$65,000 to $120,000 a year
July 2019
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old

Job Description

We believe the world needs a place where people can exchange their loved goods. That’s why we built Mercari—to connect people who want to buy and sell things of emotional value through their mobile phones. Mercari has grown to become a leading community-powered marketplace in Japan that brings together millions of people every day.

▼About this position

Mercari's Backend Team is currently entering a major transition phase as part of the company's efforts to fulfill our mission of "creating value in a global marketplace where anyone can buy & sell.” The Mercari app has been growing at an incredible pace ever since its release and is now the largest C2C platform in Japan. The Mercari API codebase has also expanded in line with the service's growth and the variety of challenges faced. As we anticipate our service to grow at an even greater speed in the future, we are aiming to use microservices to help achieve Mercari JP's mission.
 Although the Mercari API was designed and implemented as a monolithic API, we are working on migrating the API to microservices. This will allow us to divide responsibilities and make technological investments for a stronger system and organization capable of handling even greater expansion. Of course, we will continue to run our services as we implement these changes, and we aim to make daily improvements to provide an even better experience for our customers. Our backend engineers are expected to uphold the values “Go Bold” and “All for One” as they work to transform our systems and organization and contribute to our service's growth. We are seeking backend engineers who can work proactively and independently during the team's current stage, taking ownership over various discussions, developing features, providing spec feedback, and making technical decisions.

▼Job Description

・Design, development, and operation of Mercari's API and web app using Go and PHP ・Design, development, and operation of tools to support the customer support team and planning-related work ・Design, development, and operation of various microservices making up the Mercari API ・Lead the team's development

REQUIREMENTS ▼Minimum Qualifications

・Strong understanding of the company mission and values ・Experience with design, development, and operation of web applications using two programming languages including Go, PHP, JavaScript ・Knowledge of and experience with software test including unit testing, functional testing, e2e testing ・Knowledge of and experience with optimization of queries and table design for the efficient usage of RDBMS ・Experience with team development using Git/Github or similar version management systems ・Ability to design, develop and operate large-scale services in heavy traffic scenarios ・Experience with project management and/or team leadership

▼Preferred ・Experience developing and operating using the microservice architecture ・Experience with on-call support for a service ・Knowledge of web app security ・Experience with development using external APIs such as payment, delivery, etc. ・Experience sharing and contributing to an OSS project ・Experience with scrum

▼Technical Environment ・Languages: Go, PHP, JavaScript, etc. ・Middleware: MySQL, Memcached, Nginx, Solr, Docker, Kubernetes, etc. ・Infrastructure: Dedicated servers, Google Cloud Platform ・Other tools/services: Slack, JIRA, GitHub, Circle CI, etc. ・Process: Scrum


Perks & Benefits

・Health insurance

・Incentive program

・Employee stock ownership plan

・Full transportation coverage

・Custom PC

・Dual screen if needed

・Company smartphone

・Visa & Relocation support

・New Employee Benefits at Mercari「mercibox」 (https://careers.mercari.com/jp/benefits)

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Staff Backend Engineer (Go)
Stream
Amsterdam (Netherlands) - Remote (EMEA)
€70,000 to €120,000 a year
September 2023
17 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old

Job Description

We are seeking a skilled Staff Software Developer to join our team. This role is open in our Amsterdam office (relocation is possible), or remotely (EU or UK-based).

What you will be doing

You'll focus on one of the most used Products: Chat, as well as the brand new Video & Audio API.

A big portion of your day will be dedicated to software design, research, and coding.

On typical projects, you will have a lot of freedom and you will be paired with another team member.

Our team is made up of very experienced engineers, some with more than 10 years of experience.

By working together you will learn from each other along the way. Not only that, you will have an enormous impact!

Our customers have millions of users; they use Stream for mission-critical features such as showing content and exposing the core functionality of their application.

Responsibilities

  • Add new features to the service and find ways to make the existing ones perform orders of magnitude faster.
  • Help make our API service faster, more scalable and more flexible.
  • Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
  • Design and write state-of-the-art software, follow best practices, measure everything and be responsible for deployment to production.
  • Engage with customers and help them to use Stream in their app.

The challenges:

  • Distributed databases: we built our own data store for feeds and for chat.
  • Real-time messaging
  • High performance: our API responses are in the 10ms range.
  • High scalability: we use sharding, master-master, and master-slave to ensure scalability.
  • High availability: our entire infrastructure is designed and operated to survive entire datacenter crashes.
  • Multi-region: we deploy our service on 4 different continents.

About you

You have:

  • 7+ years of backend development experience.
  • Proficiency in Go language is strongly preferred.
  • Experience with high traffic and high performance applications.
  • Solid knowledge of relational databases.
  • Experience with building HTTP APIs.
  • Experience managing your own projects and work in a team.

Bonus points:

  • Experience with JavaScript and web development frameworks such as React or Angular.
  • Experience with one (preferably few) of the following languages: Rust, Java, C, C++, Erlang, Node.js, Python.
  • Experience with message queues such as RabbitMQ.
  • Experience with automated testing and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).
  • Experience with designing and building REST API’s.
  • Experience with cloud-based platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure).
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.

Our tech stack

At Stream we use a wide collection of technologies to offer highly optimised and available features to our customers. Over the years we have experimented with different programming languages, frameworks, databases, and libraries.

Here is a short list of the technology that we currently use.

Do not worry if you do not master them all or if you do not see your favourite tool or language, you will have the chance to be exposed to most and to convince us to expand the list:

  • Go, Python, NodeJS
  • Postgresql, CockroachDB
  • AWS, Puppet, CloudFormation
  • Grafana, Graphite, ELK, Jaeger
  • Redis, Memcached

Why join Stream?

  • History of success. From Amsterdam to Boulder and Techstars in-between, Stream has raised over $58.25M to build the best Chat Messaging & Activity Feed infrastructure available, with best-in-class support.
  • Freedom and endless growth opportunities. As a rapidly growing startup (since 2020 we have gone from 30 to 150 employees), Stream gives you unique personal and professional growth opportunities. The opportunity of true ownership and accountability has a massive impact on your career. These are the things you can rarely experience in huge corporations.
  • Be on the front line of progress and innovation. While working with cutting-edge technology, we are passionate about tackling difficult tech problems at scale and creating reusable components for them, empowering engineering teams to ship apps faster, more securely, and with a better user experience.
  • They believe in us: Stream is backed by leading VC companies (Felicis Ventures, GGV Capital, 01.Advisors, Techstars, Arthur Ventures), including backers like Dick Costolo (01 Advisors, ex-CEO of Twitter), Olivier Pomel (CEO of Datadog), Tom Preston-Werner (Co-Founder of GitHub), Nicolas Dessaigne (Co-Founder of Algolia), Johnny Boufarhat (Founder and CEO of Hopin).

What we have to offer you

Stream employees enjoy some of the best benefits in the industry:

  • A team of exceptional engineers

  • The chance to work on OSS projects

  • 28 days paid time off plus paid Dutch holidays

  • Company equity

  • A pension scheme

  • Remote work flexibility

  • A Learning and Development budget

  • Commute expenses to Amsterdam covered or the option to use a company bike within the city

  • Fitness stipend

  • Monthly in-office chair massages by a professional

  • MacBook Pro

  • Healthy team lunches and plenty of snacks

  • A generous relocation package

  • An office in the heart of Amsterdam

  • The opportunity to attend or present at global conferences and meetups

  • The possibility to visit our office in Boulder, CO

  • Parental leave paid at 100%

Note: this list of benefits applies to Netherlands-based employees and is adjusted per your location of residence.

Our culture

Stream has a casual social culture, our team is diverse and we all have different backgrounds. Now, Stream is a team of over 130+ peers from over 35 countries across the globe.

We value transparency, aim for excellence, and support each other on our way to new victories.

Our team consists of the strongest talents worldwide, making Stream a great place to learn and improve your skills.

When it comes to software engineering, our culture is oriented towards ownership and quality: our goal is to deliver stable software.

If you are interested in becoming a part of what we do, apply now!


Stream provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

No recruiters/agencies please


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Tyk Technologies Ltd Logo
Senior Go Developer - API as Integration
Tyk Technologies Ltd
Remote
£60,000 to £70,000 a year
July 2022
5 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old

Job Description

**Who are Tyk, and what do we do? **

The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services.Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!)

If you’ve banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API’s, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. Founded in 2015 with offices in London, Atlanta and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe. Brands using Tyk range from Lotte, Bell, Dominos, Starbucks, to RBS and Societe Generale. We have a varied user base hailing from every continent – even Antarctica.

Our Mission

Tyk is on a mission to connect every system in the world. We’ve started by building an API Management platform.

Total flexibility, default remote, radical responsibility

We offer unlimited paid holidays and remote working from anywhere in the world, for everyone, Why? Tyk was founded on the principle of offering flexibility and autonomy to our employees, we believe this allows our employees to achieve their best results. It also means we can build the best possible team, location and working hours are no barrier.

If this sounds like an environment that you believe could work for you then read on to find out more.

The role

You will be responsible for designing and building out compelling and quality solutions for our Universal Data Graph (UDG) product. You will work closely with Product Managers, Technical Leads, Engineers, QA experts, and UX Designers to shape and deliver high quality and high efficiency solutions for Universal Data Graph. You will be expected to input into UDG strategy, and be a keen advocate of continuous improvement concepts in our software engineering lifecycle – continuous testing, continuous integration, linting etc.

You will be a talented line manager, with experience in running teams, mentoring junior engineers, and leading a culture of empowerment and constant process and standards improvement. https://tyk.io/docs/universal-data-graph/

Here’s what you’ll be getting up to: * Contributing to strategic direction of UDG, working with the Senior Product * Manager to suggest new ideas or challenge existing strategy * Developing our event driven GraphQL (GQL) subscriptions product * Building data connectors and resolvers to myriad datasources and which can be transformed into a GQL end point * Working with our UX team to create highly efficient and beautiful solutions which leverage no-code principles and ‘drag and drop’ ease of use * Iterating and improving our federation solution for dividing GQL implementation over multiple back end data sources * Designing and delivering analytics solutions for GQL and UDG * Advocating and driving a continuous improvement agenda for how we engineer – driving continuous testing, continuous integration, test coverage, linting etc and driving your teams to adopt the same mindset * Responsible for ensuring your teams feature to debt ratio remains healthy * Working with the Product Manager to architect solutions to future roadmap items or new capabilities, using well accepted design patterns that allow for future scaling * Working with DevSecOps to embed a security first approach to our product iteration and ensure what is released is safe for our customers * Takes responsibility for the quality, maintainability and flexibility of code written by your team * A leader of ensuring we write automated tests for every new capability and bug fix and ensure this culture permeates. * Have a clear focus on creating , coding, and testing solutions for non functional use cases – technical debt reduction, documentation improvement, security, stability, bug fix * Driving your teams adherence to Tyk coding standards – ensuring test cases are written, ensuring documentation is written, driving high levels of automation in our pipeline process, ensuring tests are passing before merge * Driving your teams adherence to Scrum process , being an example in working to definition of ready / done, improving estimation, documentation first etc * Be a key shaper and contributor to our continuous improvement agenda – be it the clarity of our user stories, how we estimate, or how we ensure continuous testing, we expect this role to be advocate of continuous improvement * Play an active part in our Scrum process, helping to ensure tickets are well groomed and planned for the next sprint * Line management of a small team – mentoring, improving, leading performance reviews, assisting in objective setting, and reviewing progress against our progression matrix * Leads the drive to embed and run a DevOps culture where we have a clear focus on release engineering quality and automation

Here’s what we’re looking for:

Experience:

  • Strong backend engineering experience in Go
  • Strong understanding and experience of GraphQL
  • Working experience with Scrum
  • Strong understanding of integration principles and meshing myriad data sources into one
  • Expert in building brilliant software engineering process with high levels of automation
  • Passion for continuously improvement software delivery lifecycle
  • Experience of influencing and guiding product strategies through technical knowledge
  • Line and team management and mentorship – creating outcome focused teams, accountability, thirst for improvement, and culture of innovation and empowerment
  • Deep working understanding of DevOps best practice, particularly in relation to release engineering
  • Good working experience of security first software development
  • Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)
  • Experience with Redis and MongoDB

Skills:

  • Very organized and exceptional attention to detail
  • Passion for continuously improvement software delivery lifecycle
  • Happy to input into and challenge product strategies based on technical knowledge
  • Strong communication skills
  • Hands on development experience scaling complex systems
  • Considerable backend engineering experience
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes or other orchestration tools
  • Experience building applications in Go, C, C++
  • Passionate about working on and contributing to Open Source

Here’s why you should join us:

Everyone has unlimited paid holiday. We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all. Generous maternity and paternity leave Company retreats

We all share the same vision – we value authenticity, respect, responsibility, independence, honesty, diversity and inclusion and most importantly treating others how you wish to be treated. We look for like-minded people who bring their personalities to work everyday, strive to achieve their personal goals and who are willing to challenge the way we do things, why? – to make what we do even better!

Our values tell the story of Tyk – here’s how:

It’s ok to screw up! We’ve found that it’s often the ‘stupid’ or unexpected ideas that turn out to be the successful ones – so try it, at least we can say we have!

The only stupid idea, is the untested one! It’s in our DNA – starting a business with founders 12 hours apart, giving our gateway away for free – sure, we did that, and we’d do it again!

Trust starts with you – make it count! Trust is a two-way street – instil it from day one!

Assume best intent! We have each other’s back – we’re all on the same team. Think before you speak or act.

Make things, better! Always try to leave things better than when you found them – change is constant, inevitable and embraced! Be that change we want to see.

What’s it like to work here?! check it out: https://tyk.io/worklife/

Tyk is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

You can see more about us here https://tyk.io


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Go Developer – Platform
Tyk Technologies Ltd
Remote (United States Timezones)
$50,000 to $70,000 a year
July 2022
6 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old

Job Description

Who are Tyk, and what do we do?

The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services.Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!)

If you’ve banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API’s, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. Founded in 2015 with offices in London, Atlanta and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe. Brands using Tyk range from Lotte, Bell, Dominos, Starbucks, to RBS and Societe Generale. We have a varied user base hailing from every continent – even Antarctica.

Our Mission

Tyk is on a mission to connect every system in the world. We’ve started by building an API Management platform.

Total flexibility, default remote, radical responsibility

We offer unlimited paid holidays and remote working from anywhere in the world, for everyone, Why? Tyk was founded on the principle of offering flexibility and autonomy to our employees, we believe this allows our employees to achieve their best results. It also means we can build the best possible team, location and working hours are no barrier.

If this sounds like an environment that you believe could work for you then read on to find out more.

The role

You will be responsible for designing and building high quality and customer centric solutions within our platform team. You will work with Senior Product Managers, Technical Leads, UX Designers, QAs, and a team of talented engineers to bring our vision for the platform enablement team to life. This role also will play a key part in our continuous improvement journey, building out high levels of pipeline automation, great unit testing, and ensuring we live up to our engineering policies, processes, and standards.

Our platform team looks after enabling capabilities which other product teams consume – for example, our Tyk Identify Broker, back end plugins, Tyk Sync, Tyk Pump, and our multi datacentre bridge

We’d love it if you had line management experience, and are keen to impart some of your knowledge in managing and growing junior engineers.

It’d be great if you had some line management experience, but this is not essential.

Here’s what you’ll be getting up to

Occasional input into strategic direction of platform enablement, working with the Product Manager to suggest new ideas or challenge existing strategy Focusing on creating great quality , low technical debt, and optimal experience solutions for our our customers Being an advocate and driver for continuous improvement and operational excellence – increased automation, safer pipelines, more disciplined code merge, better unit testing etc Code with care to ensure your feature to debt ratio remains healthy Code using well accepted design patterns that allow for future scaling Working with DevSecOps to embed a security first approach to our product iteration and ensure what is released is safe for our customers Pair programming with more senior engineers to drive up your skill set Consider the quality, maintainability and flexibility of code written by you and improve this over time with mentorship with more experienced engineers Be focused on ensuring we write automated tests for every new capability and bug fix Have an understanding on creating, and testing solutions for non functional use cases – technical debt reduction, documentation improvement, security, stability, bug fix. Work with experienced engineers to build your knowledge and approach here Be an advocate of adhering to Tyk coding standards – ensuring test cases are written, ensuring documentation is written, driving high levels of automation in our pipeline process, ensuring tests are passing before merge Learn, adopt, and input into our Scrum process , being an example in working to definition of ready / done, improving estimation, good quality ticket creation, input into grooming etc Be an input to our continuous improvement agenda – be it the clarity of our user stories, how we estimate, or how we ensure continuous testing, we expect this role to be advocate of continuous improvement With guidance from experienced engineers, learn, live and adopt a DevOps culture where we have a clear focus on release engineering quality and automation

Here’s what we’re looking for

  • Contributing to strategic direction of platform enablement, working with the Product Manager to suggest new ideas or challenge existing strategy
  • Focusing on creating great quality , low technical debt, and optimal experience solutions for our our customers
  • Being an advocate and driver for continuous improvement and operational excellence – increased automation, safer pipelines, more disciplined code merge, better unit testing etc
  • Responsible for ensuring your feature to debt ratio remains healthy
  • Code using well accepted design patterns that allow for future scaling
  • Working with DevSecOps to embed a security first approach to our product iteration and ensure what is released is safe for our customers
  • Takes responsibility for the quality, maintainability and flexibility of code written by you
  • A leader of ensuring we write automated tests for every new capability and bug fix and ensure this culture permeates.
  • Have a clear focus on creating , coding, and testing solutions for non functional use cases – technical debt reduction, documentation improvement, security, stability, bug fix
  • Be an advocate of adhering to Tyk coding standards – ensuring test cases are written, ensuring documentation is written, driving high levels of automation in our pipeline process, ensuring tests are passing before merge
  • Be an advocate of adopting our Scrum process , being an example in working to definition of ready / done, improving estimation, good quality ticket creation, input into grooming etc
  • Be a key shaper and contributor to our continuous improvement agenda – be it the clarity of our user stories, how we estimate, or how we ensure continuous testing, we expect this role to be advocate of continuous improvement
  • Live and adopt a DevOps culture where we have a clear focus on release engineering quality and automation
  • Be opinionated, outgoing, and enthusiastic – we want engineers to challenge and have a voice

Experience needed

  • Strong backend engineering experience in Go
  • Passion for continuously improvement software delivery lifecycle
  • Experience of influencing and guiding product strategies through technical knowledge
  • Hands on development experience with server development
  • Team management and mentorship
  • Experience of adhering to and improving operational excellence, with a keen eye on reducing manual effort and increasing quality
  • Deep working understanding of DevOps best practice, particularly in relation to release engineering
  • Good working experience of security first software development
  • Knowledge in any or some of the next topics: Distributed system, Analytics, RPC, 3rd party integrations, Different data stores, different identify providers, testing skills
  • Very organized and exceptional attention to detail
  • Passion for continuously improvement software delivery lifecycle
  • Happy to input into and challenge product strategies based on technical knowledge
  • Very organized with exceptional attention to detail
  • Strong communication skills
  • Hands on development experience scaling complex systems
  • Considerable backend engineering experience
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes or other orchestration tools
  • Experience building applications in Go, C, C++
  • Passionate about working on and contributing to Open Source
  • Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)
  • Experience with Redis ,MongoDB/SQL

Competencies

  • Designing highly-available distributed software
  • Collaborative development
  • Automated testing practices and continuous testing
  • Continuous delivery

Nice to have

  • API management experience
  • Line management and mentoring experience

Benefits

Here’s why you should join us:

Please note that benefits vary by country. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask your Talent Partner.

  • Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision packages
  • 401k plan
  • Everyone has unlimited paid holiday.
  • We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all.
  • Employee share scheme
  • Generous maternity and paternity leave
  • Company retreats
  • We all share the same vision – we value authenticity, respect, responsibility, independence, honesty, diversity and inclusion and most importantly treating others how you wish to be treated. We look for like-minded people who bring their personalities to work everyday, strive to achieve their personal goals and who are willing to challenge the way we do things, why? – to make what we do even better!

Our values tell the story of Tyk – here’s how:

It’s ok to screw up! We’ve found that it’s often the ‘stupid’ or unexpected ideas that turn out to be the successful ones – so try it, at least we can say we have!

The only stupid idea, is the untested one! It’s in our DNA – starting a business with founders 12 hours apart, giving our gateway away for free – sure, we did that, and we’d do it again!

Trust starts with you – make it count! Trust is a two-way street – instill it from day one!

Assume best intent! We have each other’s back – we’re all on the same team. Think before you speak or act.

Make things, better! Always try to leave things better than when you found them – change is constant, inevitable and embraced! Be that change we want to see.

What’s it like to work here?! check it out: https://tyk.io/worklife/

Tyk is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.


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🚀 Backend Engineer (Mid & Senior) (f/m/d)
Upvest
Berlin, Germany
€70,000 to €90,000 a year
July 2021
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

As our next full-time backend engineer, you'll help us build a securities API for financial institutions, the first such API in Europe. Your goal is to take ownership of designing, developing and maintaining our microservice architecture (written in Go).

A greenfield project. Cutting edge technologies. No legacy code.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

  • Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable systems. Using Microservice architecture powered by Docker, Kubernetes, Linkerd service mesh, and Kong as a Gateway.
  • Build event-driven applications using Kafka
  • Work on different aspects of our API-product portfolio as part of the development team
  • Develop data processing and storing mechanisms
  • Work on improving the reliability of our API tools, as well as developing innovative tools
  • Work with an agile methodology: at the end of the 2-weeks sprint cycle we have a demo with a retrospective to make our software delivering faster

Why Upvest:

  • We're working on solving a hard problem: fixing the European securities financial infrastructure that empowers more people to be able to invest. You have the opportunity to contribute to this change.
  • We invest in you. From access to a personal coach, development budget and plenty of opportunities to grow in your role.
  • We take hiring seriously with a strong focus on keeping a high bar when interviewing (equally important is that we also hire decent people who are passionate about their craft and helping up achieve our shared mission).
  • While we're not quite fully-remote, we are committed to being a flexible employer as we understand you don't have to be in the office to do your best work.
  • We live a culture of empowerment, trust (that we hire the best people and get out of their way) and openness (there's a greater advantage in sharing information than keeping it to ourselves).
  • We ensure we take time to have fun as a team. We're looking forward to having more time in-person again once this becomes possible again.

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Golang Backend Engineer (f/m/d)
Upvest
Berlin, Germany
€70,000 to €85,000 a year
February 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

At Upvest, we are building the financial infrastructure of tomorrow. Our vision is to create a world in which any asset can be owned and traded digitally by anyone, anywhere. Our bold long-term view is backed by Europe's largest tech VCs Notion Capital, Partech and Holtzbrinck Ventures. Today, we count 22 talented people from 10 different countries and we want to keep expanding our international Upvengers team.

Your mission:

We are seeking a full-time backend engineer to build a securities API for financial institutions, the first such API in Europe. Your goal is to take ownership of designing, developing and maintaining microservices written in Golang.

A greenfield project. Cutting edge technologies. No legacy code.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

  • Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable systems. Using Microservice architecture powered by Docker, Kubernetes, Kuma service mesh and Kong as a Gateway.
  • Build event driven applications using NATS
  • Work on different aspects of our API-product portfolio as part of the development team
  • Develop data processing and storing mechanisms
  • Work on improving the reliability of our API tools, as well as developing innovative tools
  • Work with an agile methodology: in the end of the 2-weeks sprint cycle we have a demo with retrospective to make our software delivering faster

Requirements:

  • At least +2 years of experience and passion about Golang and distributed systems
  • Fluency with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL, transaction isolation, performance optimization
  • Fluency with event driven architecture and concurrent algorithms
  • Be proactive in learning new stacks and have a high sense of taking ownership
  • Excited to work in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment

Nice to have:

  • Experience with Docker, k8s, understanding principles of a service mesh
  • Experience with Monitoring and Tracing using opentracing/opencensus/opentelemetry/elastic APM
  • Understanding of encryption algorithms and their application
  • Experience working in Fintech domain

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Software Engineer (generalist)
Fastah
Bengaluru, India
₹300,000 to ₹600,000 a year
November 2018
6 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

SOFTWARE ENGINEER (GENERALIST) ; CONTRACT OR EMPLOYEE You will be preferably be based in Bangalore, India and posses work experience of between 1 and 4 years.

At Fastah, we are helping build a faster mobile internet. We craft tools and APIs that make it easy to create mobile apps and services that work seamlessly on any network, around the world : "Faster apps for flaky networks!"

We are looking for a generalist Software Engineer who is happy to wear many hats at an early stage startup. If you are pretty good ANY ONE of the sections listed below, please do apply.

A) APIs FOR DEVELOPERS, WORLDWIDE:

  1. You will work on our REST API product offering: specification, development, test, bug fixing, deployments, customer support and documentation

  2. You will help with developer outreach and tech support

  3. You will contribute working code and prototypes to Fastah’s open-source repositories to demonstrate Fastah APIs to a global developer audience.

  4. You will monitor of our infrastructure, data pipelines, software upgrades, outages debugging and operational security.

  5. You will understand or gain knowledge of security and Authorization concepts as applied to API services and backend servers

  6. You will enhance and support billing and subscription management module such as those powered by Stripe.com APIs

B) DATA PROCESSING, VISUALIZATION, MODELING

We collect crowd-sourced data on the world's mobile 4G LTE networks, so need your help with the following activities.

  1. Data processing: You will know how to cleanse data using combination of Go, Python and R using Unix tools, scripts, Jupyter.

  2. Databases: You will be experienced with data-stores and querying them, preferable with geo-spatial capabilities such as Elasticsearch, Postgres/PostGIS

  3. Query design, tuning and maintenance will be required to support our ever-evolving API requirements

  4. You will need to map and visualize data sets using Mapbox GL JS, Google Maps JavaScript API, Kibana or similar exploration tools

  5. You will be able to build static websites using generators such as Hugo or Jekyll

C) MOBILE DEVELOPMENT ON ANDROID

Our Android app helps drivers on on-demand transportation apps to stay online more reliably using commercial 4G LTE networks. Additionally we publish an Android SDK for developers.

  1. You will improve core UI features such as Activities, Views layouts, and Material Design-compliant UI elements with an eye on aesthetics as well as performance.

  2. Understanding of architecture concept is required: Service, lifecycles, background execution, networking, location services, aand persistence (via Room/SQLlite)

  3. A strong plus is experience with mapping and markers via Google Maps Android SDK or Mapbox Android SDK

  4. Improving and maintaining Fastah’s Android SDKs with public APIs via good documentation, release management and documentation

D) DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE:

  1. Engaging with developer communities online via Stack Overflow, Fastah’s online discussion site, Hacker News etc.

  2. Organizing local meet-ups such as the Bangalore Mobile Performance Meetup, or speaking at other tech events

  3. Asking good questions online of your own, and helping others online

  4. Writing high-quality developer documentation including diagrams, “getting started guides”, FAQs and tutorials.

  5. Writing open-source code including examples for our APIs, with the right code hygiene, licenses etc. on GitHub.

  6. Read more about what Developer Experience includes here: https://girliemac.com/blog/2016/08/16/developer-experience-matters/

OUR WAY OF WORKING:

  • We release frequently and often

  • We showcase our APIs via rich examples, demos and integration guides

  • We show phenomenal ownership of work: every person is responsible for fixing bugs, building features, improving quality and repeating the previous continually

  • We follow lightweight agile processes

  • We document everything internally.

  • We treat our customer's data with serious respect and all due privacy

  • We value constant learning and resourcefulness in the workplace.


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Software Engineer - Backend
Serotiny
San Francisco, CA United States
$100,000 to $150,000 a year
November 2018
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old

Job Description

About Serotiny: https://serotiny.bio

Inspired by life – Serotiny digitally encodes nature’s features and functions into a biologically aware API for the high-throughput, rational design of multi-domain synthetic proteins.

By coupling state-of-the-art mammalian synthetic biology and a finely-tuned software architecture, Serotiny aims to embrace one of the greatest opportunities of the 21st century to improve people’s lives. Serotiny designs custom proteins with cutting edge capabilities including treatment of cancers and genetic disorders. We partner with leaders in the life sciences to give proteins wholly new functions for more effective, safer, and customized therapies.

With support from world-class investors including Nanodimension and 8VC, Serotiny is proud to build a cross-disciplinary team of passionate individuals with varied experiences.

Description:

This person will lead the development Serotiny’s biologically-aware API, collaborating with biologists to deploy novel creative algorithms useful in the design of new proteins.

The digital infrastructure is part of a design/build/test loop that couples a finely tuned software architecture with wet-lab mammalian synthetic biology. Serotiny is looking for our first backend developer who is excited to design novel software architectures for synthetic biology. Role:

Collaborate with biologists to define and design a custom biologically-aware API
Explore machine-learning & other constraint solving strategies on novel data structures
We currently work in Go and Ember

Qualifications:

BS in CS and 3+ years professional industry experience
Experience with Go
Experience with API integration
Experience shipping a digital product
Flexibility and desire to work at the early stages of a startup

Perks & Benefits

Full health benefits Budget to host and attend developer events Opportunities to develop and publish open-source standards for synthetic biology Opportunities to architect and deploy novel data structures for use in biology

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