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Software Engineer Humn.ai Remote £70,000 to £90,000 a year
August 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
If building data pipelines in a fast-moving company with the latest technology stack sound good to you then read on!
Who are we?
Humn.ai is an award-winning venture-backed InsurTech headquartered in London but working wherever you are. We are a data-first start-up on a mission to make insurance work better for commercial transportation fleets. We make risk visible and price insurance by the second so businesses can focus on what they do best: move people and goods safely.
Our core platform utilises streaming telematics data and adjusts insurance pricing in real-time reacting to the driver's usage, behaviour and environment to enable us to offer previously impossible insurance products.
What's important to us?
Our ethos is built on the principles of empowerment and autonomy. We believe in the power of open collaboration, open communication & open-source software. We need people who understand what it is like to be part of a shared mission and what it takes for a team to succeed. Skills are important but people are everything. If these words speak to you, you should talk to us!
We need you because
You will be an essential part of an award-winning venture-backed and rapidly growing InsurTech.
If you are looking to make a mark in your career with an excellent opportunity for learning and growth - this is the perfect opportunity. We are growing at pace, we move fast, and we encourage all Humns to work autonomously with the support of experienced founders who have done this before.
You will make a difference by building and deploying microservices for IoT data
Creation of reusable data models
Building API services to integrate with data providers
Design of data service and data integration frameworks
Release testing and productionising new components
We want you because
You have Golang development experience of at least 1-2 years
You worked before with Kubernetes as a developer including containerisation of apps, and service and deployment definition
AWS Lambda function development and integration with other cloud services
API service implementation using AWS API Gateway Service, GraphQL and REST
AWS DynamoDB or other NoSQL databases from a data design and integration perspectives
Strong automation mindset and a passion for root cause analysis
You have expertise in performance tuning and service monitoring
A great candidate would have experience with:
AWS Security, including IAM, SecretsManager, KMS and Cognito
SQS, Kafka or MQTT
Elasticsearch and Prometheus
Modern data warehousing (Hive, Kylin or Presto)
Soft Skills:
Good communicator
An eagerness to learn
Good explainer: can make the complex simple
What will I get in return?
Competitive salary
You will be eligible to participate in our options scheme and will benefit from being an early joiner
Work from the London office, from home or from anywhere!
Very flexible and generous vacation policy*
A cutting edge technical environment to tune your skills
* Our policy aims to encourage staff to consider flexible working arrangements. We recognise that a better work-life balance can improve employee motivation, performance and productivity, and reduce stress. Therefore we support employees in achieving a better balance between work and their other priorities, such as caring responsibilities, leisure activities, further learning, and other interests. Humn.ai is committed to agreeing on any flexible working arrangements, provided that the needs and objectives of both the organisation and the employee can be met.
We're building the connected finance businesses deserve. Unleashing them with tomorrow's technology, today. Our flexible payments solutions help global enterprises — like Samsung, Deliveroo and Adidas — launch new products and create experiences customers love. And it's not just what we build that makes us different. It's how.
We liberate smart, passionate people to collaborate, innovate and do their best work — faster. That's why we're one of the most valuable fintech firms around. But we're just getting started. By cutting through financial complexity, we'll empower companies to change the world. Join us. Unlock your potential.
Build tomorrow, today.
Senior Software Engineer at Checkout.com:
Our solutions allow merchants to route dynamically a transaction to the best payment provider to optimise their conversion rate. Your main task will be to design and create or maintain micro-services within our infrastructure. Our product handles millions of transactions within a week. The API has its key part on it but the load is also on a multitude of other services.
You will work closely with our technical teams to learn about the possible technical bottle-necks. We have implemented different technologies such as Go (go-kit toolkit, gRPC…), Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL and many others. Your role would be to lead us to new technologies that our product can benefit from.
Our product handles financial data making uptime one of our key KPIs. We expect that you will be able to work on high-availability and technically challenging programs.
You will join a talented team of 10 engineers, Data Scientists and DevOps, that are tech-passionate, working closely with most of them. Our main goal is to ensure that we can contribute to your personal growth as an engineer.
Payments are often compared to a black-box. Merchants around the world have issues understanding how their performance is and what optimization can be done. Our team is focused on building the best payment performance tool there is. It allows merchants to better understand their online processes as well as offline payments.
We offer 2 products to our merchants:The first, named Telescope, allows us to analyse, understand and make recommendations to a merchant. It does not require any technical integration from them and works mainly through webhooks, pulling data from APIs or parsing exported files.
About You
3 years software development experience in Go
Know your way around web-related tech (HTTP, TLS, proxies, API conventions...)
Implemented APIs
Experience deploying applications as a part of a service-oriented architecture
Curious and unafraid of digging deeper to understand how systems of all kinds work
Keen to communicate with third-party gateways from a technical point of view as well as to maintain the best relationship as possible
Knowledge in the payment ecosystem
Worked on critical services
Some basic knowledge about ElasticSearch
What you will be doing
Payment gateway integrations: Interacting with external APIs through an in-house framework, handling webhooks notifications and parsing bank reconciliation summary files
Communication with third party payment gateways
Design and implement new workflows on our services
If you don't meet all the requirements but think you might still be right for the role, please apply anyway. We're always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.
#LI-RS2
What we stand for
At Checkout.com, everything starts with our values, including the experience we offer our people.
#Aspire
We supercharge your professional growth with career development programs and leadership training. You can learn your way, with tailored pathways and online platforms. And be inspired at relevant conferences.
#Excel
We don't stop at 'good' here. We strive for excellence amongst our teams every day and recognize colleagues who take it to the next level through our quarterly peer-nominated Hero awards.
#Unite
We're proud of our global connections and inclusive environment. So we champion this through our colleague-led community groups and celebrate many cultural events together.
More about Checkout.com
We empower businesses to adapt, innovate and thrive with the connected payments they deserve. Our technology makes payments seamless. We provide the fastest, most reliable payments in more than 150 currencies, with in-country acquiring, world-class fraud filters and reporting, through one API. And we can accept all major international credit and debit cards, as well as popular alternative and local payment methods. Checkout.com launched in 2012, and we now have a team of 1000 people across 17 international offices. To date, we’ve raised a total of $830 million, with our recent Series C valuing us at $15 billion.
We believe in equal opportunities
Checkout.com is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience, skills and personality. We believe that employing a diverse workforce is the right thing to do and is central to our success.
PowerSpike is a media & technology company focused on building the most compelling and streamlined destination for activating sponsorships within gaming communities. PowerSpike collaborates with 30,000+ gaming and esports influencers to execute premium, authentic influencer marketing campaigns. PowerSpike’s influencer network reaches over 150M viewers every month and has already grown over 1000% in 2020. The 5-year-old company is backed by Techstars, Cox Enterprises, the Sixers Innovation Lab, the Dorm Room Fund, and Ocean Azul Partners.
What we’re building
PowerSpike is building the world’s first Influencer Exchange.
Like a traditional ad exchange, where buyers can place bids for ads in real-time, PowerSpike’s technology instead enables brands to bid on influencers. We’re taking the simple and streamlined experience of programmatic advertising, and combining it with the authenticity of influencer marketing to deliver instantly scalable influencer campaigns. Think Google Ads meets influencers. Currently focused on the gaming space, our technology enables brands like Intuit Quickbooks and Activision Blizzard to launch influencer campaigns across our network of over 30,000+ Twitch streamers, just like they'd make a media buy.
Your work will directly help influencers pursue their dreams and assist some of the biggest brands in the world in streamlining their influencer marketing efforts.
What we need
We’re looking for a dedicated, passionate, innovative, and security-oriented Backend Web Developer to work on bringing PowerSpike’s databases and API’s to life.
Reporting directly to the VP of Development, you will be responsible for building bug-free data solutions which will deliver information to influencers, brands and advertisers to help them make critical marketing decisions for their spends. If the words RPC, distributed servers, and scalable architecture excite you - then we want to talk.
We value learning, creativity, radical candor, positivity and collaboration - and as one of the first people at PowerSpike, we’re looking for someone who can help us define our culture and processes for years to come. Simply put, we believe in hiring A+ people, giving them clarity in what success means, and then supporting them to their fullest potential.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Managing, maintaining and upgrading Powerspike’s internal API
Developing and maintaining microservices
Develop scalable APIs for both internal and public consumption
Implement, maintain and improve scalable databases
Design and ensure data security and integrity
Develop reusable and sustainable code
REQUIREMENTS
2-5+ years experience in backend development
Server side language (Go/Python preferred)
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Familiarity with AWS and Google Cloud
Database language (MySQL preferred)
Experience with distributed systems and microservice architecture
Experience with machine learning
Ability to adapt to new situations and learn new skills/languages
Knowledge of Git
BONUS POINTS IF
You’ve worked at a startup or attempted to launch your own startup before (even if it failed)
You’re a gamer, streamer, or fan of live streaming platforms like Twitch/Mixer/YouTube Live
You’ve worked on ad exchanges or advertising/influencer related technology in the past
BENEFITS
Competitive compensation
Stock options
Generous PTO
Medical Insurance
Early access to new products, games and services emerging in the space
Opportunity to be on the ground floor of one of the fastest growing startups in the gaming ecosystem
PowerSpike, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.
Backend Developer, API’s Powerspike Remote (United States) $80,000 to $120,000 a year
December 2020
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Who We Are
PowerSpike is a media & technology company focused on building the most compelling and streamlined destination for activating sponsorships within gaming communities. PowerSpike collaborates with 30,000+ gaming and esports influencers to execute premium, authentic influencer marketing campaigns. PowerSpike’s influencer network reaches over 150M viewers every month and has already grown over 1000% in 2020. The 5-year-old company is backed by Techstars, Cox Enterprises, the Sixers Innovation Lab, the Dorm Room Fund, and Ocean Azul Partners.
What we’re building
PowerSpike is building the world’s first Influencer Exchange.
Like a traditional ad exchange, where buyers can place bids for ads in real-time, PowerSpike’s technology instead enables brands to bid on influencers. We’re taking the simple and streamlined experience of programmatic advertising, and combining it with the authenticity of influencer marketing to deliver instantly scalable influencer campaigns. Think Google Ads meets influencers. Currently focused on the gaming space, our technology enables brands like Intuit Quickbooks and Activision Blizzard to launch influencer campaigns across our network of over 30,000+ Twitch streamers, just like they'd make a media buy.
Your work will directly help influencers pursue their dreams and assist some of the biggest brands in the world in streamlining their influencer marketing efforts.
What we need
We’re looking for a dedicated, passionate, innovative, and security-oriented Backend Web Developer to work on bringing PowerSpike’s databases and API’s to life.
Reporting directly to the VP of Development, you will be responsible for building bug-free data solutions which will deliver information to influencers, brands and advertisers to help them make critical marketing decisions for their spends. If the words RPC, distributed servers, and scalable architecture excite you - then we want to talk.
We value learning, creativity, radical candor, positivity and collaboration - and as one of the first people at PowerSpike, we’re looking for someone who can help us define our culture and processes for years to come. Simply put, we believe in hiring A+ people, giving them clarity in what success means, and then supporting them to their fullest potential.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Managing, maintaining and upgrading Powerspike’s internal API
Developing and maintaining microservices
Develop scalable APIs for both internal and public consumption
Implement, maintain and improve scalable databases
Design and ensure data security and integrity
Develop reusable and sustainable code
REQUIREMENTS
2-5+ years experience in backend development
Server side language (Go/Python preferred)
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Familiarity with AWS and Google CloudDatabase language (MySQL preferred)
Experience with distributed systems and microservice architecture
Experience with machine learning
Ability to adapt to new situations and learn new skills/languages
Knowledge of Git
BONUS POINTS IF
You’ve worked at a startup or attempted to launch your own startup before (even if it failed)
You’re a gamer, streamer, or fan of live streaming platforms like Twitch/Mixer/YouTube Live
You’ve worked on ad exchanges or advertising/influencer related technology in the past
BENEFITS
Competitive compensation
Stock options
Generous PTO
Medical Insurance
Early access to new products, games and services emerging in the space
Opportunity to be on the ground floor of one of the fastest growing startups in the gaming ecosystem
PowerSpike, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.
Software Engineer, Security Team Lob San Francisco, United States $115,000 to $165,000 a year
October 2019
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Lob is building a suite of APIs to simplify and automate enterprise workflows. Our most popular product is our print and mail API that enables companies to send physical mail as effortlessly as sending emails. This API helps individuals and enterprise customers programmatically send physical mail at scale. Our second API focuses on address verification. It is officially CASS-certified by the USPS. Our long-term goal is to provide the building blocks for developers to automate the offline world through APIs (lob.com/blog/vision-mission) . We’re looking for great problem-solvers to help us figure out how.
As a member of our security team, you’ll protect the data of hundreds of millions of mail recipients, ensure new products and designs are architected safe by default, build monitoring and detection systems, work collaboratively with developers to educate them about security and squash vulnerabilities, and help us achieve our compliance and regulatory goals.
We take a systemic approach to security, and strive to ensure we provide low friction high-impact wins across everything we do. The role includes significant autonomy towards defining problem spaces and a mandate to build viable tools which are both internally- and externally-facing. A significant part of this job is meant to attract a multidisciplinary engineer. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to have a large sense of ownership, grow extraordinarily in their career, and develop cross-functional technical & soft skills, not just related to application/infrastructure security but securing all aspects of a fast-moving hypergrowth startup.
Our engineering team values agility, collaboration, and autonomy (lob.com/blog/engineering-agility-collaboration-autonomy) . We’re building a team of not just strong problem-solvers, but great collaborators—engineers who are excited to teach and learn from each other, share decisions and information freely, and work together on new problems that no other companies have solved before. Come join the best people in the business.
As a Senior Security Engineer, you’ll...
Be a security subject matter expert and respond to any internal and external customer security engineering questions/requests
Support and advise software engineering teams in the design of secure software. Coach and mentor other engineers
Develop, implement, and communicate vulnerability mitigation strategies to development teams
Threat model and pentest our internal and external applications
Design, evangelize and implement security processes, technical controls, and architecture design patterns to enhance Lob's ability to prevent, detect, and analyze malicious activity
Participate in defining security-related end user features in the Lob product
Recommend and deploy tooling to manage security in the deployment pipeline as well as production systems
Balance security risk with business goals and agility
For this role, we’re looking for...
Proven interpersonal skills: Ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences. Collaborative approach to mentoring software engineers on the development of secure code
Broad exposure to various security disciplines (at least 2 of application security, infrastructure security, incident response, account security, and risk & compliance), and understanding of the core principles behind security concepts
Strong knowledge of web architecture, cloud and application architectures, and related security principles
Systematic problem solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive
Experience securing AWS based environments a plus, including security of different AWS Services, design of VPC architectures, best practices for IAM configuration and security of data within and across AWS accounts
Experience with NodeJS and Golang a plus: having opinionated approaches to preventing and detecting vulnerable code patterns at scale
Experience with Kubernetes and service mesh deployments a plus: CVE scanning, RBAC, mTLS, network security policies, pod security contexts, etc.
About Lob
Lob was built by technical co-founders with a vision to make the world programmable. We offer two flagship APIs (print & mail and address verification) that enable companies to send postal mail as effortlessly as sending emails. Lob is venture-backed by the most reputable investors in tech, and we are rapidly growing our team to shape the future of our company and meet the demands of a quickly growing customer base and dynamic product offerings.
We give our employees a lot of responsibility and ownership of their work. You will have fun at work while engaging in challenging projects with the best and brightest.
Perks
Health benefits for you and your dependent(s)
Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Wellness program (includes monthly stipend or free Barry’s Bootcamp classes!)
Paid parental leave
Free lunch, dinner, and snacks
401K
Dog-friendly office
Ground floor opportunity as an early member of the Lob team; you’ll directly shape the direction of our company
Our Commitment to Diversity
Lob is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity (lob.com/blog/power-diversity-starts-data) of backgrounds and perspectives (lob.com/blog/a-commitment-to-diversity) to cultivate an environment of understanding to have greater impact on our business and customers. We encourage under-represented groups to apply and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Forbes 30 Under 30 - Enterprise Technology 2017
#61 on Y Combinator's Top Companies List 2018
#26 2018 Fastest-Growing Private Companies, The Business Journals
We're looking for a talented multi-faceted full stack developer who also has a good baseline in systems, networking, security.
This person is going to continue/takeover/assist with the CTO's development effort and will report to the CTO.
At a high level, here's what you'll be doing:
Coding API Integrations with a bunch of systems
Expanding our own API
Development of multiple web front-end interfaces - both customer facing & internal facing
About you:
You dig Node.js, but let's be real, if you can really code, the details shouldn't matter that much
You understand [at least relational] databases and you have a good balanced idea of when to abstract
You love at least one front-end library (Angular, React, et al)
You code with a 'REST API first' mentality and front-end comes after
You see JSON blocks as art
You consider security implications while you're coding
Ideally, you'll also:
Have a systems/network background to understand the DevOps side and implications of what you're doing
Have comfort with cloud infrastructure orchestration & automation
Have some depth in cryptography and/or security
Have a passion for data and have played with D3.js or similar
Can code mobile apps for Android and iOS
You should have the following experience & education:
Just kidding. We're not going to throw out arbitrary lengths of time and list external validations and pretend that matters.
If you can do this stuff and are interested in what we're building, reach out.
Obligatory keyword skills list:
Languages: JavaScript, Go/Golang, PHP, Python
Frontend/Backend: Node.js, Agular, React, Vue, HTML, CSS
SOA: Microservices, REST, RESTful
Data structures: JSON, XML
SQL & NoSQL: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Cryptography: PKI, SSL, TLS, and much more
Systems & Network: Linux, nginx, apache, IP, IPv4, TCP, HTTP, SSL/TLS
Security: SIEM, Splunk, Suricata, Bro, DNSBL
Cloud: AWS, EC2, RDS, CloudFormation
Authentication/AAA: JWT, Radius, LDAP, SAML, et al
SaaS Integrations
Development: OO, GIT, Agile, CICD
Software Engineer (API) Beeswax New York City, United States $110,000 to $160,000 a year
October 2018
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Beeswax, named one of Business Insider’s “hottest pre-IPO ad tech startups of 2016,” is looking for a Software Engineer to build and maintain the REST APIs that our customers rely on. Our goal is to offer the most extensible set of APIs in the world of online advertising. You can read more about our APIs at www.beeswax.com/docs.
Our current REST API runs on AWS ECS and is built using PHP, MySQL, and nginx. Our APIs serve internal clients in our stack written in Python, Java, and C++ in addition to external customers.
Beeswax is an engineering-led company that places high value in building great software. Because advertising is extremely high scale (millions of transactions per second) and our team is still small, Beeswax engineers are involved with difficult scale problems all the time.
This position reports to the CTO, a long-time senior engineer from Google who was a key technical lead in the process of scaling Gmail.
Responsibilities include:
Building new features for customers and internal users
Maintaining existing features and fixing issues as they arise
Architecting solutions to complex systems tasks
Testing, managing and releasing high-quality code
Working with other engineers to produce a highly-reliable and easy to use advertising API
Requirements:
B.S. in Computer Science
Strong familiarity with backend REST APIs and relational databases, SQL knowledge and PHP experience is a plus
A desire to be deeply involved in product definition. Our engineers are expected to contribute to the direction of their projects.
Working knowledge of Javascript, HTML, and CSS
Ability and desire to build great software
Backend Engineer Meshify Austin, TX, United States $80,000 to $130,000 a year
October 2018
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Onsite in Austin, TX 78704
Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Description
Do you enjoy building processing pipelines for massive amounts of data? Adaptable time-series databases? Machine learning? Streaming analytics pipelines? We’ve got a lot of opportunities for you to leave your mark.
A Backend Developer at Meshify will have the opportunity to work on a myriad of projects and applications. We have just finished 1.0 of our platform rewrite, entitled Carbon. It is a full scale redesign and rewrite of our legacy platform. We migrated from an old .NET API server to Go, from MySQL to ScyllaDB (Cassandra) for time-series data, and from MySQL to Postgres for relational data. It includes a query and analytics engine, highly customizable rules and notifications engine, and even custom javascript code triggered by messages in the data pipeline (Lambda Engine). Future projects will include a Hardware Identity Server providing identity and security to our hardware, simple integration with big data tooling, improved GPS rule processing, integration with common ticketing systems like Pager Duty, and more.
First Few Months
Build out data pipeline ingest tooling from other transports
Assist in building out and scaling the event history API
Integration with data warehousing and analytics tooling
Key Responsibilities
Develop backend services in Go
Work with PostgreSQL and Scylla (Cassandra) to view and model data effectively
Work with Git, Drone, Docker, and Rancher to continuously build, test, and deploy software applications
Work to build maintainable, scalable, and deployable solutions
Skills & Requirements
4 year degree in CS or other Engineering discipline combined with relevant experience
At least 5 years professional development experience with a demonstrable proficiency Go
Proficiency with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)
Very strong problem solving skills
Open to new concepts, ideas, and languages
Able read, write, and speak fluent English
Ability to work in a team environment at a fast-paced, small company
Ability to analyze, troubleshoot and debug software in a modern microservices environment
On a rotation basis, be available for on-call support for production outside of office hours
Verisart is currently upgrading is is seeking a hands on Senior Golang Engineer who can work with our technical stack as we migrate from a tightly coupled backend and front end to using React/Redux.
The successful candidate will have strong web app and RESTfull API experience and will be able to support our in-house development team and can start immediately. Knowledge of micro services is also helpful.
The role would involve setting up the API framework as well as any authentication (OAuth2.0) and validation middleware. Routes would then need to be implemented and integrated. Role would also involve supporting any extra code requirements of the development team inside the scope of the API project.
The work will be carried out as part of a small team, based in London (Mayfair). Competitive rates offered, as well as flexible working hours although the position is full time and on site and the successful candidate must be available at least 4 days per week at our office in London.
In general Verisart seeks engineers interested in applying cryptography at real world problems. Our problem lies within the art market as we address the problem of proving provenance for artworks and building evidence based certificates of authenticity. We recognize that cryptography is not a magic bullet. We want to use it intelligently to provide evidence where possible for people to interpret, like the web of trust. We’re looking for people who understand how to apply cryptography to problems. While understanding the mathematical backgrounds to cryptography is great, it’s not essential if you understand how the cryptographic primitives like hashing and message signing work together to solve real problems. We value passion and hard work when tackling challenges and above all else although an interest in arts and collectibles is helpful.
Skills & requirements
Requirements
Computer science degree or similar (preferred but not necessary). Git. High level experience such as C++, Golang, Rust, Java, Python. Bitcoin experience is an asset.
Our stack
Golang, Postgres, Javascript, Heroku, Python,
About the company
Verisart is building the most trusted way to certify and verify artworks and collectibles using distributed ledger technology. We are a rapidly growing team of applied cryptographers, software engineers and designers with offices in Los Angeles and London. Robert Norton, former CEO of Sedition Art and Saatchi Art, leads the company. Peter Todd, core developer for the Bitcoin blockchain protocol and Dr. Ahmed Elgammal, Professor in Computer Science at The Art & AI Lab at Rutgers University are Board Advisors.
Massdriver is an internal development platform that enables engineering teams to self-serve secure, production-ready infrastructure and services in their own cloud. We are looking for an engineer to lead our Golang team to build out core features and guide the future of our platform.
Platform engineering at Massdriver is different. We dogfood our product and the platform components you design are the components we expose to our customers to design their platform engineering environments. Your work is the product.
This role will own and design platform engineering components and their APIs including our provisioning engine, command-line tools, and our cloud query API. You will have the opportunity to work and contribute to a number of open source tools as well as design custom tooling.
Required experience:
Minimum of 3+ years of Golang development experience at startup / mid-sized companies
Effective communication skills, a positive attitude, and ability to give and receive constructive feedback through mentoring, pair programming sessions, and code reviews
Professional experience developing large, scalable backend applications
Strong understanding of system architecture and design; with consideration given to security, performance, and scalability
Owned the technical design of major features or projects and can articulate the reasoning behind trade-offs made in your designs
Experience with IaC tools like Terraform or Pulumi
Nice to have:
Experience with Kubernetes
Experience with open telemetry
Experience as an open-source maintainer
Responsibilities:
Developing in a high-security micro-services oriented environment
Event-driven systems development
Follow software development best practices to create maintainable and extensible software solutions
Open Source DevTools & CLI development
Work in an agile manner with transparency and fluid communication within the engineering team and across other teams in the company
Benefits:
Generous equity in an early-stage startup
Generous paid vacation with a required summer and spring break
100% covered health, medical, and dental insurance
401k w/ 4% matching
Half-day Fridays
Conference stipend
Flexibility. Massdriver is a remote-first company, and we want our employees to work the way that makes them the most productive.
Ownership. Our engineers have felt the pain of being prevented from trying new things by the overhead of DevOps. We empower our engineers to solve customer problems and add value.
Growth. As we build this core team of engineers, we are looking for the future leaders of our company that will help guide us as we scale.
About the interview
15-minute call w/ Cory (CEO)
30-minute discussion about the role and your experience w/ Dave (CTO)
1-hour coding session on an open source issue of your choosing. w/ Chris (COO)
Our coding interview is very different.
Our goal is for you to be the expert on the call and to see what it's like to work with you as the new employee:
Pick an issue on an open-source project in Golang that you think will take an hour or more.
Don't overthink picking the issue!
Feel free to familiarize yourself with the codebase, the issue history, the test suite - whatever you think you need to be the 'expert' during the interview. Don't share the issue with us.
At interview time, you are in the driver seat, you are the expert. Our goal is to see what it's like to work with you on our first day.
Please don't actually start work on the issue until the interview.
About Massdriver
Massdriver is changing the way software engineers provision, secure, and observe cloud infrastructure.
We aim to provide all of the benefits of infrastructure-as-code including parity, reproducibility, and auditability in a simple to use diagramming platform. No more fighting with HCL or spending hours reading cloud-specific API documentation. Now you can manage your infrastructure the same way you design it, at the drawing board.