Golang Cake Jobs Paying 150,000 USD a Year

Job Description

CAKE is a marketing technology company providing the leading SaaS enterprise platform for real-time marketing intelligence. Our mission is to address the challenges and opportunities in tracking and analyzing the massive amounts of clicks generated from mobile, affiliate, display, retail, lead generation campaigns, and more. Our executive team possesses decades of online marketing experience and a deep understanding of digital analytics across a breadth of industries, leading us to nearly 200% year-over-year growth the last two years.

Every employee of CAKE should continually strive to deliver exceptional service to our clients, subconsultants, co-workers and everyone with whom we come into contact. CAKE represents teamwork, communication, accountability, and respect - this is our public image.

The goal of CAKE is to solidify and grow our client base through the cooperative efforts of employees at all levels. To help us achieve this goal, we promote continuing professional development to serve the needs of our employees and the growth we are building together. By working together, increasing efficiencies and focusing on quality and profitability, we will prosper in any economic environment.

As a Sr. Go Engineer at CAKE, you are responsible for the design, development, and management of the core business processes and data tier of the CAKE platform’s technology stack. This role is an integral part of CAKE’s development team and will work closely with key stakeholders, software architects, and leadership in the Technology and Product groups to ensure optimal development standards, performance, and reliability.

You will use your experience with distributed and/or micro-service architectures to implement high-performance, scalable, and stable code in a distributed architecture, alongside a team of other engineers. Your code will be deployed into multi-region cloud infrastructure (currently AWS); will be ephemeral in nature; and will be designed with testability, monitoring, and scalability in mind.

Job Description

What you'll achieve with us 🥇

• You'll make significant individual contributions that get used instantly & heavily by our clients who depend on our software to run their businesses.
• You'll leverage your orthogonal expertise to introduce abstractions and systems that improve the team's velocity.
• You'll raise the bar for engineering quality by setting and enforcing standards.
• You'll mentor teammates to help them grow as architects & engineers.
• You'll work closely with product & design teammates and our clients to collectively define what we're building.

Requirements ✅

• You collaborate well with engineering teammates and cross-functionally—especially working through natural tension with designers and product managers.
• You give positive & constructive in-the-moment feedback to your teammates and enjoy receiving the same.
• You're excited to work at least a couple days a week in-person at our office in Redwood City.
• You have worked as a software engineer for 5+ years.
• You have written production backend software using Go.

Icing on the cake 🎂

• You have worked in a fast-paced startup environment.
• You have written frontend software using React and TypeScript.
• You have familiarity with construction or building materials.

Interview process

• Intro Call (15 min): Getting to know each other and aligning on expectations for the role with Nick.
• Technical Screen (1 hour): Working through debugging and coding challenges with Andrew.
• Onsite @ Redwood City HQ (~5 hours):
  • Walk (45 min): Diving into the business with Nick.
  • System Design (1 hour): Designing a system to address an abstract problem with Brian.
  • Lunch (45 min): Breaking bread with the team.
  • Product Collaboration (1 hour): Going back & forth on a PRD with Vidhan.
  • Culture (30 min): Reflecting on past experiences with Emmie.
  • Q&A (30 min): Answering your questions with Andrew.