Golang Between Technology Jobs in United States

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Senior Software Engineer Developer (Go)

This position is currently remote due to the pandemic. The role is based in San Diego, CA, USA

PeopleConnect is hiring for our People Search Division (aka The Control Group TCG) as our business is GROWING!!! We are looking for a talented, collaborative Senior Software Engineer Developer who is excited to learn/grow Go/Golang skills by moving to a Go environment on an award-winning team. Competitive salary plus quarterly bonus. Would you like to be part of a pioneering tech community in a highly successful company? Does the idea of keeping up with and learning the newest technologies with other brilliant techies sound exciting? If so, then read on!

People Search (aka TCG) is an award-winning web development company with over 15 million customers nationwide. Our cutting-edge technology connects, informs and protects people — both online and off. Our websites are consistently ranked in the top 500 top traffic sites in the US. Our products have been featured on the Discovery Channel, Mashable, Vice, Entrepreneur, Business Insider — and even made a cameo in a Disney animated comedy! A pioneer of new ideas, we’re constantly looking to develop and deploy innovative strategies and solutions. Our people and culture are second to none: we’re innovative, creative, collaborative and talented. We work hard, play hard, and together — we work magic!

Our new San Diego state-of-the-art office has stunning views of beautiful downtown, Petco Park and the Harbor. Our dog-friendly office is packed with snacks and crazy-good perks (like free massages, kombucha on tap, free catered lunches, ping pong, video games, offsite team events and more)! We offer a highly competitive salary + bonus package, 100% company paid health insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision), UNLIMITED vacation, Paid Sick Leave, Paid Holidays, Student Loan Repayment Program, 529 Education Savings Plan, Training/Education Reimbursement, free Gym Membership, Paid Parking and 401k Plan with Company Match. Check us out here!

You will already have extensive experience building applications in a service oriented or microservice architecture. You are excited to learn/grow Go/Golang skills by moving to a Go environment. You relish complex technical challenges yet prioritize simplicity in your solutions. You understand the business requirements behind the software you build. You are passionate about learning and stay current with new technologies. You play well with others yet can operate independently as needed.

Responsibilities Include (but not limited to):

• Build and maintain ecosystem of high-volume services and APIs.
• Scaling and optimizing services and databases for performance.
• Own features from technical design through maintenance.
• Build features, investigate and fix bugs, write routine-complex tests.
• Break down complex tasks/requests into sub-tasks, make consistently good decisions, operate independently between regular or periodic check-ins.
• Consistently use software engineering best practices.
• Lead day to day tasks and priorities, accurately estimate time to complete tasks, resulting in high quality and high productivity for at least one (or more) product team(s).
• Independently lead tasks to completion gathering requirements from stakeholders. May be responsible for driving initiative to completion.
• Provide training and mentorship to other Software Engineers on their team. May do same for other teams.
• Other duties as required.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science or relevant field (or equivalent).
• At least 3-5 years’ directly related software development experience. 5-7+ years’ preferred.
• Advanced-expert programming skills using one or more backend languages such as Go/Golang, Python, C++, C#, Node.js or Ruby. Go/Golang preferred and highly desired.
• Advanced-expert experience with relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL) and a deep understanding of database performance optimization.
• Advanced--expert experience using Linux.
• Advanced-expert understanding of underlying architecture and infrastructure that runs their team's projects.
• Extensive experience with cloud computing.
• Solid experience with git.
• Experience using Docker in production.
• Some experience using Kubernetes and Terraform highly desirable.
• Intermediate-advanced ability to assess/improve performance and increase observability within team's projects.
• Strong ability to develop unique, outside the box ideas.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent communications skills and highly collaborative within their team, other teams and cross-functionally.
• Ability and willingness to lead projects and mentor other growing software engineers.
• Able to work with teams as well as independently with minimal supervision.
• Exceptional work ethic, driven, self-motivated, highly accountable with strong initiative and passion.
• Excited to learn new things and share knowledge and best practices with others.

Note for Principle Agencies - Principle agents should not forward resumes to The Control Group (TCG). TCG will not be responsible for any fees arising from the use of resumes submitted from agencies without a prior written and signed agreement and authorized job order for this position in place.

Perks & Benefits

100% paid health insurance for employee; 70% for dependents. 401k with 4% company matching. Unlimited paid vacation, 10 paid holidays, 80 hours paid sick leave. Amazing, talented, collaborative team! Leading edge tehcnology, innovation is our jam! Free massages, free gym membership and much more! Check out our website at peopleconnect.us for more info.

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer (Go/Golang) with PeopleConnect (formerly The Control Group TCG)

PeopleConnect is hiring for our People Search Division (aka The Control Group TCG) as our business is GROWING!!! We are looking for a talented, collaborative Senior Software Engineer to join our award-winning team. Would you like to be part of a pioneering tech community in a highly successful company? Does the idea of keeping up with and learning the newest technologies with other brilliant techies sound exciting? If so, then read on!

People Search (aka TCG) is an award-winning web development company with over 15 million customers nationwide. Our cutting-edge technology connects, informs and protects people — both online and off. Our websites are consistently ranked in the top 500 top traffic sites in the US. Our products have been featured on the Discovery Channel, Mashable, Vice, Entrepreneur, Business Insider — and even made a cameo in a Disney animated comedy! A pioneer of new ideas, we’re constantly looking to develop and deploy innovative strategies and solutions. Our people and culture are second to none: we’re innovative, creative, collaborative and talented. We work hard, play hard, and together — we work magic!

Our new San Diego state-of-the-art office has stunning views of beautiful downtown, Petco Park and the Harbor. Our dog-friendly office is packed with snacks and crazy-good perks (like free massages, kombucha on tap, free catered lunches, ping pong, video games, offsite team events and more)! We offer a highly competitive salary + bonus package, 100% company paid health insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision), UNLIMITED vacation, Paid Sick Leave, Paid Holidays, Student Loan Repayment Program, 529 Education Savings Plan, Training/Education Reimbursement, free Gym Membership, Paid Parking and 401k Plan with Company Match. Check us out here! www.peopleconnect.us

You will already have extensive experience using Go to build applications in a service oriented or microservice architecture. You relish complex technical challenges yet prioritize simplicity in your solutions. You understand the business requirements behind the software you build. You are passionate about learning and stay current with new technologies. You play well with others yet can operate independently as needed.

Responsibilities Include (but not limited to):

• Build and maintain ecosystem of high-volume services and APIs. • Scaling and optimizing services and databases for performance. • Own features from technical design through maintenance. • Build features, investigate and fix bugs, write routine-complex tests. • Break down complex tasks/requests into sub-tasks, make consistently good decisions, operate independently between regular or periodic check-ins. • Consistently use software engineering best practices. • Lead day to day tasks and priorities, accurately estimate time to complete tasks, resulting in high quality and high productivity for at least one (or more) product team(s). • Independently lead tasks to completion gathering requirements from stakeholders. May be responsible for driving initiative to completion. • Provide training and mentorship to other Software Engineers on their team. May do same for other teams. • Other duties as required.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science or relevant field (or equivalent). • At least 3-5 years’ directly related software development experience. 5-7+ years’ preferred. • Advanced-expert programming skills using Go. • Advanced-expert experience with relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL) and a deep understanding of database performance optimization. • Advanced--expert experience using Linux. • Advanced-expert understanding of underlying architecture and infrastructure that runs their team's projects. • Extensive experience with cloud computing. • Solid experience with git. • Experience using Docker in production. • Some experience using Kubernetes and Terraform highly desirable. • Intermediate-advanced ability to assess/improve performance and increase observability within team's projects. • Strong ability to develop unique, outside the box ideas. • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities. • Strong attention to detail. • Excellent communications skills and highly collaborative within their team, other teams and cross-functionally. • Ability and willingness to lead projects and mentor other growing software engineers. • Able to work with teams as well as independently with minimal supervision. • Exceptional work ethic, driven, self-motivated, highly accountable with strong initiative and passion. • Excited to learn new things and share knowledge and best practices with others.

Note for Principle Agencies - Principle agents should not forward resumes to The Control Group (TCG). TCG will not be responsible for any fees arising from the use of resumes submitted from agencies without a prior written and signed agreement and authorized job order for this position in place.

Perks & Benefits

We offer a highly competitive salary + bonus package, 100% company paid health insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision), UNLIMITED vacation, Paid Sick Leave, Paid Holidays, Student Loan Repayment Program, 529 Education Savings Plan, Training/Education Reimbursement, free Gym Membership, Paid Parking and 401k Plan with Company Match. Dog-friendly office is packed with snacks and crazy-good perks (like free massages, kombucha on tap, free catered lunches, ping pong, video games, offsite team events and more)!

Job Description

Button’s mission is to build a better way to do business in mobile. Today, we work with some of the largest and most interesting businesses in the world, to connect consumers with what they want at the tap of a button. We build with the consumer experience in mind, and we have a reputation for paving the future of mobile and enjoying the road to get there.

As a Software Engineer on our Platform team you’ll design and build the services, APIs and frameworks that sit at the very foundation of Button’s business. Our portfolio includes the programmatic interfaces that connect Button to many of the largest brands in e-commerce, and the real-time decisioning engine that ensures we’re able to provide the best offer to each customer.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the design of new services and frameworks that advance our ambitious product goals. You’ll be a key contributor to shaping our Engineering and technical culture, driving design reviews and providing guidance and direction to developing members of our team

Our Engineering team values a fast moving and high-trust environment that affords each member the opportunity to develop expertise operating services at meaningful scale in a distributed cloud environment. You’ll compose solutions from a broad range of technologies, including Go, NodeJS, Docker, Prometheus and ECS. You’ll also move fast; we ship changes to production dozens of times each day.

As a senior software engineer in the platform team you will:

• Develop scalable, low-latency web services using a variety of tools and languages, including Go, NodeJS, Docker and ECS.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop new features within our core platforms. You will work with product managers to translate user and partner requirements into technical designs, and with other Engineers to bring those designs to life with an emphasis on scalability, latency and accuracy.
• Deliver the APIs and programmatic interfaces that drive deep integrations between Button and our largest partners.
• Maintain a‘mystery-free’ production environment and keep the pagers quiet by implementing excellent monitoring, anticipating and planning for the unexpected.

We look for team mates who have

• A passion for building reliable and scalable backend services in a distributed environment, and an interest in exploring new technologies.
• A strong understanding of relational databases, and experience building stateful web services.
• An excellent understanding of API design, and experience designing reliable RESTful APIs.
• Experience coding in Go, Javascript / NodeJS, or Python — our major programming languages.
• Experience and comfort in a production environment. You’ll be working in a“magic-free” service-oriented environment, using AWS ECS, Docker, and HTTP everywhere.

Who will you work with

• Mike Wakerly, CTO: Mikey is Button’s Hawaiian shirt enthusiast and Chief Technology Officer. A former Googler and a San Francisco transplant, he loves mountain biking, tinkering on electronics, and any excuse to take a road trip.

• James (or Jimmy) McGill, VP of Engineering: Hailing formerly from both Australia and Google, he spends his weekends hiking, surfing and designing and building furniture. See James for all of your Vegemite needs.

• Liwei Mao, Software Engineer: With a team of talented engineers, she designs and builds the platform that powers Button's monetization tech. She loves traveling for food, weekend kickball, and hot yoga classes.

More about us:

• Button was founded in 2014. We’ve raised $65M in funding. Most recently we announced our $30M Series C in June 2019, led by Icon Ventures. Our investors include Norwest, Redpoint, Greycroft, DCM, and Capital One Ventures. We’re approximately 40 engineers and 120 people overall.
• We believe and invest in personal growth, and we’ve got the results to back it up. We’ve been recognized multiple times by Fortune, Inc., and Crain’s magazines as one of the best places to work in the US.
• We value diversity and come from all sorts of different backgrounds. Some of our teammates hail from big tech companies like Google; from financial giants like Bloomberg and MasterCard; and from previous startups like Chartbeat, Compass, and Blue Apron. We were especially proud the first time we hired a coding boot camp graduate.

Button is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

Button is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, rule, or regulation.

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Please provide your personal blog and Github address in your notice of interest.

Job Description We are an exciting start-up company founded by proven leaders with repeated success in the technology space. Our newest company is developing a cryptocurrency platform based on an open-source third generation blockchain that we’re creating. Our goal is to set a new standard in security and protection for our end users and community.

We’re looking for a Golang Software Engineer who combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, scalable, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems for the Crypto market place. Reporting directly to the VP of Engineer the Golang Software Engineer makes sure that WON’s services, both internal and externally- visible systems have reliability, rock solid uptime to meet our users’ needs and quick improvement while being responsible for capacity, performance and scalability.

Responsibilities - Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement. - Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews. - Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.

Qualifications Minimum qualifications: - 2+ years of recent server-side experience in Golang - Knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript (JQuery or AngularJS), WebSockets is an advantage - Experience working with MySQL - Experience with Redis, MongoDB or other NoSQL solutions - Understanding of how to build and consume REST APIs - Building modular and scalable code - A sense of humor and thirst for knowledge

Preferred qualifications: - Interest in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems. - Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive. - Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.

Please provide your personal blog and Github address in your notice of interest.

Benefits - Competitive Salary - Awesome bonus - 20 days annual leave - 8 days personal leave - 100% medical, dental and vision insurance - Life insurance - 401(k) and FSA - Free shuttles between Caltrain Menlo Park and office - Gym on site, accessible 24/7 - Located on corner of Marsh Road and 101, by the Dumbarton Bridge exit. - Loads more!

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CourseHorse is seeking an extremely talented engineer to help own the full software lifecycle including planning, implementation, and deployment. As a critical member of our small team, you will tackle the complex challenges of scaling architecture while also defining development methodologies and best practices. Our ideal candidate loves to code and build technology that improves peoples' lives.

Responsibilities - Build and iterate on product features for our students, schools, and admins, analyzing system and business metrics post-release - Jump between our various stacks and languages and contribute high quality, well-architected code (we write in Ruby, Elixir, PHP, Golang, Javascript) - You'll be passionate about learning new technologies (and then teaching us about them!) - Act as a mentor to fellow engineers through code reviews, design document critiques, and brainstorms throughout the software development process - Collaborate with product managers, designers, and business teams to identify and execute best solutions, focusing on business impact, product polish, and code quality - Participate in sprint planning, standups and retrospective meetings - Proactively identifies opportunities to improve code, engineering processes, and systems with effective solutions - Own the lifecycle of tickets on your plate, from planning to launch, including implementation, testing and measuring

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Role Summary

The Senior Software Engineer is a team member of Global Connected Consumer Experience – Advanced Development & Concepts Group and is responsible and accountable for the quality and delivery of applications that make up complex systems serving GM customers. This role requires extensive knowledge of software development technologies, techniques and processes. The successful candidate will work independently on projects around autonomous vehicle and ride sharing. The individual will be tackling hard engineering problems on a day-to-day basis. The individual will work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team of individuals of various levels of experience who will be driving new software and/or software improvements across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Ability to understand complex problems in the data, natural language and contextual spaces from PoC through the product.
  
• Create solutions that scale to in the face of big data using the latest technologies including open source
  
• Software analysis, code analysis, requirements analysis software review, identification of code metrics, system risk analysis, software reliability analysis, Object-oriented Analysis and Design
  
• Maintain a balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects while shipping software quickly
  
• Software modeling and simulation
  
• Evaluate and identify new technologies for implementation
  
• Maintain standards compliance and adherence to governance policies
  
• Work with leadership to identify continuous improvement opportunities for software development, design and engineering areas
  
• Drive for code asset management and reusable design frameworks
  
• Conduct research on new products and drive implementation to benefit/optimize overall software development

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience with common programming languages like Java, C++. Broad experience with software at all levels is a must.
  
• Experience with common intelligence tooling from big data stores, cloud platforms, Python and machine learning frameworks preferred.
  
• Rich experience in software throughout the ecosystem from embedded, mobile and cloud platforms.
  
• Hands-on and can-do attitude in developing solutions to software architectures to meet user experience, platform or performance needs.
  
• Expert knowledge of database modeling and data structure principles, techniques and best practices.
  
• Strong knowledge of design patterns, different programming paradigms.
  
• 3+ years of experience as software engineer
  
• Passionate about self-driving technology

Required a degree in computer science or related technical field.
Master’s degree, preferred

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Software Engineer (Production & Deployment)
Seattle, Vancouver, NYC, or Remote

• Empower large enterprise to run AI/ML at scale, leveraging the best in modern distributed systems and automation technology
  
• Join a truly remote-friendly company - work anywhere in the US or Canada including your sofa, the beach, or our Seattle waterfront office
  
• Experience rapid growth in the first AI startup to be funded by Google

Algorithmia automates, optimizes, and accelerates every step of the journey to deploying of AI/ML at scale. We allow anyone to run models on massively parallel infrastructure in minutes instead of months. In our cloud or your datacenter - all completely managed for maximum performance at minimum cost. Already trusted by over 60k developers and major enterprise customers, Algorithmia makes scalable Machine Learning fast, simple, and cost-effective for everyone.

Undergoing enormous customer growth, we’re rapidly scaling our Customer Operations team to meet demand. We’re looking for talented Software Engineers to join a passionate, distributed group that's driving the design, deployment, and optimization of Algorithmia with our Enterprise customers. This unique role is a broad mix of automation, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, and software development - offering an unparalleled opportunity to learn, grow, and impact the most important financial institutions, intelligence agencies, and private companies in the country.

As a Software Engineer on the Customer Operations team at Algorithmia, you will:

• Deploy Algorithmia Enterprise into Fortune 500 and Government environments
  
• Design, build, and maintain the automation and infrastructure needed to deliver Algorithmia effectively, and to help us achieve even greater scale
  
• Work cross-team to ensure Algoritmia supports unique customer environments, and to design solutions to meet specific customer needs
  
• Eventually automate your role out of existence - then join us in doing something even more amazing
  
• Handle the highest-tier of engineering support for AI/ML leaders
  
• Have a real career plan, with mentorship and fast-track opportunities to promotion, technical leadership, people management, or wherever your interests may be
  
• Work from anywhere in the USA or Canada. We have teams in Seattle, NYC, Vancouver BC, Nova Scotia - or go 100% remote from home (Snuggie, bunny slippers, and all - no judgement!)

And we might make the perfect match if you:

• Want to work with modern cloud technologies and large scale distributed systems
  
• Have experience multiple languages (Java, Scala, Go, Python, Bash, etc.), deployment tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, etc.), and cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, etc.)
  
• Are passionate about automation, and believe nothing should ever be done manually twice
  
• Enjoy working with customers to deliver solutions that meet business need, empower engineers (and data scientists!), and solve real-world problems
  
• Feel most comfortable in hybrid roles that blur the line between Developer, Site Reliability Engineer, Deployment Engineer, Solutions Architect, and Consultant
  
• Bonus points for a love of data science, any kind of AI/ML experience, interesting public code, or the implementation of something cool on our AI marketplace (hint: free trial!)

As a Software Engineer at Algorithmia you’ll join a passionate team that’s changing the way everyone uses AI and ML. You’ll solve real problems, make an impact, and work in a flexible environment that encourages you to follow your own interests as well. You’ll be welcomed into an intelligent, quirky, and diverse group and gain access to fantastic perks beyond just salary, equity, and insurance benefits - all from the comfort of your own sofa (or our dog-friendly office).

If this sounds like you APPLY NOW, or learn more at algorithmia.com

Algorithmia is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our core. We will never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status and encourage everyone to apply.

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At Rokk3r we support entrepreneurs and companies that want to leverage exponential technologies  to transform their businesses or develop entirely new ventures. Rokk3r partners leverage our global idea to exit ecosystem to understand the exponential context, identify and validate new opportunities, and create entirely new businesses.

As a Technology Lead at Rokk3r you will be working on our Coubild team in partnership with entrepreneurs, and existing organizations to help architect, validate and build technology for early-stage startups.

Responsibilities * Ability to architect modern and innovative solutions using cutting edge technology. * Research and suggest updates to process and technology regularly to stay relevant. * Team alignment on overarching Cobuild strategy, which should align with Company Building, Taking Learnings from Company building. * Alignment with Management on Company Vision, and participation in the execution of the tangible goals that have been given to the Cobuild unit. * Optimization of the startup launch process (e.g. from nothing to product) * Optimization of the iteration process (e.g. changes need to be updated) * Optimization of the measurement process (e.g. KPIs have been defined, and need to be measured, and also need to roll up into some company reporting mechanism). * Constant mentorship and leadership of the Engineering Team. * Provide an environment that supports communication, collaboration, and alignment to the bigger vision of the company. * Implementation of Performance Tracking Processes on Teams * Implementation of Automation Processes for Company Builds, and Company Reporting Structures to Management * Participation and Thought Leadership in Steering Committees * Thought Leadership (e.g. Blogs, Education) * Optimization of the Product Build Lifecycle

Skills * Critical Thinking * Product Management Methodologies (SCRUM, Agile) * Relevant Infrastructure Experience (e.g. GCE and AWS) * Microservice Architecture Experience * Authentication Standards and Best Practices * Development Standards and Best Practices * Continuous Integration and Deployment * Client Service Architecture Experience (Mobile, Web via Angular2, ReactJS, ReactNative, etc...) * Application Development Experience (Several Product Builds under belt, from first line of code to growth phases)

Languages * Golang, NodeJS, Python, C++ , Java, Swift, etc...

Experience * Experience with Leading a Multi-Faceted Team (e.g. Engineering, Design, Architecture, Growth, Product) * Startup Team Experience * Investor Communications and Thought Leadership * Experience with TDD * Experience with Analytics Infrastructures (e.g. Product Architecture Experience of different system types (e.g. Machine Learning infrastructure, Big Data infrastructure, IoT infrastructure, etc…) * Infrastructure Security Best Practices * Application Security Best Practices * Data Storage Security Best Practices

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About The Role

We are looking for a top notch Lead Golang developer who possesses a strong understanding of how best to leverage and exploit the language’s unique paradigms, idioms, and syntax.

Your primary focus will be on developing Go packages and programs that are scalable and maintainable. You will ensure that these Go packages and programs are well documented and has a reasonable test coverage.

You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is essential.

Your Duties & Responsibilities

• Work with IT and business stakeholders to architect, design and implement software
• Produce high quality testable, robust and effective code
• Contribute to continuous integration, testing and deployment automation, efficiency improvements and innovation

Your skills, experience, and qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Go programming language, its idioms and paradigms
• Experience with code, dependencies, generation and other tools specific to Go ecosystem
• Experience building headless/service applications for Windows
• Networking, messaging and events processing (sockets, TCP/IP, IPC, MQTT, AMQP, etc.)
• Experience building native libraries for Windows for interoperability with other languages
• Experience building APIs (REST, RPC, other)
• Experience with SSO, Oauth, OIDC, KPI or similar security implementations Lab49 is a specialist strategy, design, and technology consulting company dedicated to the financial services industry. We were founded in 2002 to fill a need in the Financial Technology marketplace for high-end execution and reliable delivery of technology projects.

Our consultants are experts in strategy, user experience, architecture, engineering, and delivery management. We combine knowledge of the latest trends in technology with deep domain expertise to deliver innovative solutions with accelerated time-to-market.

We have office hubs in Midtown Manhattan, Washington DC, London, Budapest, New Delhi and Sydney.

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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.