Golang Coda Platform Jobs Paying 100,000 USD a Year

Job Description

Funding Circle brings together small businesses and investors in a way that is truly revolutionary. We're here to foster an environment where small business can thrive. Our online platform provides a marketplace where investors receive better returns and small businesses find lower rates. The driving force behind our product is our engineering team; we are building elegant, sustainable, and scalable infrastructure on a global scale, and we want you to be a part of it!

Our mission: to build a better financial world.

Prospectus:

Would you describe yourself as a creative and ambitious engineer who’s always ready to take on the next cutting-edge technology and build scalable infrastructure? If your answer is yes, you’re going to fit right in with our team.

We’re looking for a passionate and efficiency-driven Senior Platform Engineer who can build automated, testable, and repeatable projects. We are a group of passionate engineers whose bread and butter is learning new technologies and fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment - we’re looking for partners in crime who feel the same.

• Be an automator: we’re using cutting-edge technology to facilitate automation and repeatability. We practice continuous integration and are working towards continuous deployment.
• Be a builder: our engineers are building and expanding our highly-available architecture to handle over $2 billion in loans originated through our pipeline.
• Be a game changer: we’re building infrastructure that has a competitive edge; we’re using technologies like Docker in production on top of Mesos, Kubernetes, and Apache Kafka.
• Be a collaborator: you’ll be expected to forge deep bonds with your business counterparts to truly understand the needs of our Borrowers and Investors. We work in an Agile environment including pair programming and daily standups.
• Be a teacher: be generous with your time and expertise to continue the development of our world-class engineering team.

Our ideal candidate has:

• Expert knowledge of working in cloud-based infrastructure (AWS)
• Experience using containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)
• Expert knowledge of auto scaling, load balancers, proxy servers, DNS, CDNs and WAFs
• Capable of architecting security and compliance best practices into global cloud infrastructure
• At ease troubleshooting in complex environments using monitoring and logging tools (such as New Relic, Datadog, Graylog and Kibana)
• Knowledge of Ansible, Terraform & Go.
• Experience with build tools (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI), and artifact repositories (e.g. Quay.io),
• Experience working with RDBMS (e.g. PostgreSQL)
• Knowledge of using distributed stream processing platforms specifically Apache Kafka
• Experience in requirements identification, solution analysis, and product selection
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Brownie points for:

• Contributions to open source projects
• Advanced networking experience
• Security experience
• Experience with microservices and event-driven architecture
• Experience with data warehouses
• Past experience working in a highly-regulated industry
• Experience working in global companies with multiple geographies

Why Join Us?

Happy employees are productive employees, that’s why we offer a hearty benefits package including:

• Our employees make our mission a reality, and we want you to share in the companies success by offering generous shares.
• Cool kit - Mac or PC
• Private healthcare, pension and healthcare cash back schemes
• Discounted onsite gym membership
• Learning and development through FC Academy
• Personal development funding
• Flexible working
• Free breakfast, barista coffee and discounted hot lunch at our Funderbar!
• We are a regular host of Meet-Ups and events.
• Company wide socials

At Funding Circle, we celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. We truly believe that diversity makes us better.

Job Description

About the role

Kalido exists to help create a world where people and organizations can maximize potential through a global community of valued connections and opportunities. We passionately problem solve new ways to do this, no matter how difficult the challenge. Everyone on our team is a true product owner, responsible for ensuring excellence. We move fast (but thoughtfully), and are looking for a talented and impact-oriented Backend Developer to join us. In this role, you will be responsible for: shaping architectural decisions and technology choices; building the infrastructure at the very heart of Kalido; and ensuring that it is secure, performant, easily deployable, scalable, cost-effective, and fit for purpose. In doing so, you will shape the company, and our collective ability to impact the world. As part of a startup, your responsibilities will vary, but on a day to day basis, you will:

Build Kalido’s back end

• Collaborate with management, design, and platform-specific development teams to define, design, and build new functionality as required
• Design, build and refactor our architecture as we evolve, with maintainability and efficient abstraction in mind
• Verify, test and deploy new builds
• Inspire and lead other developers, ensuring their growth
• Mentor other developers to help them grow, and to ensure our design and development efforts and ethos remain aligned Maintain Kalido’s back end
• Troubleshoot, debug and enhance the existing codebase and DevOps deployments, driving towards a continuously more performant, higher quality, and responsive experience
• Monitor and analyse system performance, and own our uptime
• Refine and extend our administrative and performance monitoring tools
• Optimize our use of processing power, memory, storage, bandwidth, and third-party API calls in our backend infrastructure Plan for the future
• Propose, evaluate, select, and adopt new technologies when needed
• Ensure that you are on top of changes to critical parts of our infrastructure (e.g. AWS, GRPC, Postgres, Redis, Envoy, RabbitMQ, etc.) so that we can adopt newer versions without affecting performance or functionality
• Shape our API and third party integration strategy
• Proactively suggest changes to balance cost, scale, security, performance, deployability and utility
• Load test regularly, and plan for the next 1-2 orders of scale

What we are looking for

We value inclusion, impact, transparency, generosity, and teamwork. You can read more about our values and what they mean to us here: https://www.kalido.me/our-mission/. We are looking for someone who: shares our philosophy; is capable and excited about the role; strives for personal and professional excellence; and wants to make a meaningful difference through their work.

This opportunity is for you if you are:

• Experienced (have 5+ years experience of designing and building commercial back end systems), with a strong analytical mind, and an ethical approach
• Comfortable with the fundamentals of computer science and information architecture, including knowledge of data structures, algorithms, their complexity, their tradeoffs, and their implementation (e.g. trees, graphs, sorting algorithms, and their various Big O implications)
• Someone who has led or been part of small teams of developers through the entire software development lifecycle, in maintaining and continually improving a lean software development process, and in delivering high quality code reviews, with a toolbelt of best practices for professional software development
• Excited about thoughtfully building scalable platforms
• Experienced with cloud infrastructure providers (Google and AWS)
• Experienced with developing on and for the Linux operating system
• Knowledgeable about systems architecture choices and performance trade-offs, database design and extensibility
• Capable of writing complex and performant SQL queries for Oracle and Postgresql
• Comfortable developing and maintaining systems written in Golang, Javascript and Python, using unit testing, and managing version-controlled development using continuous integration and devops tools (e.g. Travis). Working knowledge of a wide variety of languages and frameworks is preferred.

What we offer

Working at Kalido means working with a solid startup that has been around since 2015. We balance our drive for delivery with flexible working arrangements, generous maternity and paternity leave, weekly team lunches, and the chance to truly shape the culture you work in. You will never run out of fascinating problems to solve and will have incredible opportunities to work with a diverse team that cares about your growth.

About Kalido

By helping everyone to easily create stronger communities and more meaningful real-world connections, Kalido’s goal is to level the playing field of opportunity. We are redefining the way people connect in their neighbourhoods, inside companies, at events, in schools, in alumni groups, in co-working spaces, and doing so throughout their lives. In August 2019 we closed a 5m USD Series A, and are backed by HCL, a global IT player with a 22 bn USD market cap, and co-founded by the #3 core team member and early investor at Alibaba. If you’re excited about empowering individuals, helping organisations to work better together, and creating a platform to power the future of work, this is the place to do it. To learn more, visit https://www.kalido.me.

How to apply

If being a Lead Software Developer at Kalido sounds like something that leverages your skills and ignites your passion, we want to get to know you. Drop us an email with your CV (including a link to your portfolio and relevant repositories) and a cover letter, addressed to Martyna at careers@kalido.me.

In order to be a great workplace and build a great product, we believe we must strive to truly represent and support this diverse world. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of age, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, parental status, marital status, disability, religion, or belief.

Job Description

In 2017 we launched the CyberRisk platform, a cutting-edge SaaS Cybersecurity product which helps organisations protect their information and prevent data breaches. Developed in Sydney, CyberRisk is now used by some of the biggest companies in the world, and continues to grow rapidly. We're looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to join this team in Sydney.

About the role

• You'll be joining a small, collaborative team of excellent developers
• It's a modern tech stack - React, Go, Kubernetes, GCP
• You will be building new features for a product that is already in-market and growing rapidly
• We release new functionality at least every fortnight, and have done continuously for the past 2 years
• The team has full control over how they work, and end-to-end responsibility for the product (from feature design and development through to running the infrastructure)
• There's a mix of interesting technical challenges - everything from complex UI problems to supporting massive-scale automated web scanning
• You'll learn a lot about cybersecurity, and how the Internet works
• Perks including free lunch, flexible work arrangements and gym reimbursement program
• Sydney CBD office
• Above-market salary (up to $180K + super) and stock options.

Specific experience is not as important as the willingness to learn and make an impact. We use a modern stack of React, Go, and Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform, so experience in those technologies is a bonus.

About us

At UpGuard, we're building cybersecurity products that help organisations protect their information and prevent data breaches.

Founded in 2012, we have raised over $30M in VC funding to-date and have 100+ enterprise customers such as NASA, NYSE, First State Super, IAG and ADP. Our threat intelligence capabilities have lead to the discovery of data exposures cited by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, BBC and The Washington Post among other publications.

With offices in Mountain View, CA and Sydney, Australia, we're a global team of ~40 people that takes great pride in what we do

Job Description

We're looking for a senior software engineer or site reliability engineer with experience in Go, microservices, distributed systems and cloud-native technology to come help build a global services platform for developers.

Cloud-native development has become massively complex in a world filled with docker, kubernetes, envoy, istio and much more. We want to abstract away all of this complexity and build a global platform for developers to build and share services.

You should have experience building distributed systems in Go and have battled with cloud-native technologies. You should have a disdain for the way software is built today and want to play a role in changing how we build software in the future.

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced backend software engineer to join our exceptional team of distributed systems engineers. We have embarked on a mission to create highly-scalable and performant micro-services that handle tera-bytes of data and analytics that feed into beautifully designed custom data visualizations. You will be responsible for architecting, implementing and testing new and existing systems that power our flagship product and help humanize the way content marketers interact with customers. Most importantly, your leadership as a senior and experienced member of the team will become an example for others to follow, and you will help shape and define our engineering practices and craftsmanship.

Our Engineering Values

• Collaboration: We believe that engineers do their best work when working together in cohesive teams.
• Excellence: We believe in doing things the "right way" rather than the "fast way", and holding ourselves to a high standard of excellence.
• Growth: We believe engineers do their best work when they are constantly growing, learning, and changing.
• Communication: We believe in combining empathy with openness and honesty to set clear expectations and hold each other accountable.
• Impact: We believe we're making the world a better place by empowering marketers to really help their customers rather than just sell stuff.

What you'll be doing

• Writing beautiful API documentation for all the services you and the team builds for consumption by other developers (we use Swagger).
• Design and architect scalable services that are both highly available and performant.
• Breaking down product requirements into manageable stories and delegating work to team members.
• Refactoring and evolving existing distributed systems to make legacy systems anew.
• Collaborating with other functions of the business and engineering department to ensure successful delivery of software.

Who you are:

• A bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
• 8+ years working in backend technologies in addition to Java such as Scala, Python, Golang or a combination of
• 8+ years working in databases such as MySQL, Postgres or other RDBMS systems
• 8+ years working with cloud-hosting and deep understanding of AWS, Google Cloud or Azure
• 3-5+ years working with Docker containers and deep understanding of the internals of how containers work
• 3-5+ years working with non-relational databases such as Cassandra or Dynamo
• 3-5+ years building and deploying containers into managed clusters with Kubernetes or equivalent
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Proven professional experience working with non-technical business functions
• You enjoy collaborating with product management teams to ensure the best quality product is shipped out the door
• You have a keen appreciation for usability and understand your users come first when designing systems

Why You Should Join

At Conductor, we are looking for engaged and passionate engineers that can raise the bar. There is a tremendous opportunity here to have immediate impact in the day-to-day and affect the company's success and growth. We all share in the same values and push each other to meet these standards.

We are made up of a diverse group of people from all backgrounds and include a team of exceptional engineers in Kyiv as well. Wherever you are from, you will find a common ground here for continuing to push forward your career and make a difference in this industry.

Conductor, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

About Conductor

Conductor’s search and content intelligence platform helps marketers create and optimize content to improve visibility online.

The technology generates customer intent insights that lead to compelling content, increased traffic, and higher organic marketing ROI. Customizable dashboards and workflows guide marketers through the content creation process, empowering them to measure, refine, and demonstrate the effectiveness of their SEO and content marketing efforts.

In addition to its SaaS platform, Conductor offers a suite of services and support including site audits, site migrations, and managed services that empower in-house marketing teams and digital marketing agencies to drive results and put their customers' needs first.

Conductor's forward-thinking customers include global and emerging enterprise brands like Citibank, Salesforce, ClassPass, and WeWork.

Job Description

Welcome! We’re Attest: a Consumer Growth Platform. We’re on a mission to bring every business closer to consumers, and empower them with the insights that drive predictable and repeatable growth; enabling them to create and deliver better, more useful services, products and experiences for communities worldwide.

We’re spearheaded by a bunch of awesome individuals, and our guess is that you’re pretty awesome, too. We’re ultra-proud of the inclusive company we’ve built to date. Attest is not just an exciting place to work alongside great people, but a feeling – one of belonging and adventure. We’re delighted that you’ve taken the first step to becoming an Attester by expressing an interest in who we are and what we do.

About the Technology team

Engineers join us for the technical challenges we overcome and stay for the incredible culture our Engineers create and grow, from talking at meetups such as the monthly 'London Microservices Meetup' (hosted and set up by our very own Technical Director) to contributing regularly to open source software (we're lucky to have the core contributor to Vue.js in our ranks). We work very closely with Product and Design in cross-functional squads, each of which has the autonomy to practice agile in the way that works best for them. We're also excited to build out a Data Science function here at Attest, focusing on ML and NLP techniques to provide greater insights to our customers and safeguard our high data quality.

Our tech stack utilises some of the latest technologies, such as; gRPC, linkerd2, Postgres and Elasticsearch (to name just a few) all running on Kubernetes. We mainly code in Go and Java, and going forward we are focussing on building event sourced systems in Go. Experience in these areas will be a big plus.

At Attest you will * Collaborate with the whole team to identify and create best-in-class products. * Deliver features regularly, be comfortable with ambiguity, and push for code quality always. * Participate in planning, stand-ups and retrospective meetings. * Explore innovative ways to solve problems, and become an expert in high-availability systems. * Design highly efficient architectures that scale around user demand.

Who you are * A team player. Collaborative, self-motivated, creative, entrepreneurial & thoughtful style. * Thrive with opportunities. Enjoy solving complex data & architecture problems efficiently. * Love delivery. High quality code in an agile environment. * Results-driven. With proactive use and exploration of new technologies and methodologies.

What you’ll bring to Attest * Expertise in building and maintaining event-driven architectures. * Expertise in developing, testing & debugging highly-available distributed systems. * Experience with databases: PostgreSQL / mySQL / DynamoDB / Redis. * Experience with infrastructure technologies: Terraform, Ansible, Docker and/or Kubernetes.

What we’ll offer in return

Our benefits and perks are designed with a focus on the wellbeing, engagement, and growth of our Attesters.

A competitive salary that fairly recognises your experience and potential; High-quality Equipment – whether you prefer a MacBook or a Windows machine, we’ll invest a sizeable amount to provide you with the right tools and set-up to help you do your best work; **25 days paid holiday – **we care about our team’s wellbeing, so we make sure you have time to fully switch off, rest, and recharge; **Flexible working hours and working from home – ** whether you have parental responsibilities, just need some headspace, or have a parcel being delivered, we’ll support you in making your work and personal life a manageable blend; A generous Growth & Development budget to spend on the resources and tools that will help you grow in your role and achieve your career goals; **10% adventure time **to invest in charitable activities, your growth and development, and/or side projects for Attest; Weekly team lunch – a team who eats together, works hard together, and stays together, right? We order in lunch every week, but also acknowledge those who are less fortunate than ourselves: for every meal we order, our supplier donates a meal in support of the Akshaya Patra Foundation; Fully-paid sick days – Mental health and physical health are treated equally at Attest. Whether you’ve been knocked out with the flu, are having an operation, or need some time off to manage anxiety, stress or depression, for example, we encourage all our Attesters to rest up and come back when they’re feeling more like themselves; A values-led working environment that encourages putting people first, honesty, curiosity and leadership.

Is this role not quite the right fit for you? Or, have you not seen a suitable position available on our careers site?...We’re always on the look-out for interesting, bright folk to join our team of Attesters. Connect with us to stay in touch, and we’ll notify you when we have new opportunities.

About our people and culture

Attest is a place where you’re encouraged to bring every part of you needed to do your best work; every part of you needed to build strong, meaningful and long-lasting relationships with your fellow Attesters, our clients and partners.

We champion our people in their entirety. With our team of Attesters, we take a human-first approach, optimising for joy and adventure, ingrained in everything we do.

We’re a friendly, collaborative team, and value putting people (our team, clients and consumers) first; honesty, curiosity, empowerment and leadership are core to our team working style. Decisions are made with careful and quick consideration at Attest, to support fast and efficient growth.

About Attest

We believe that great companies put consumers and data at the heart of every decision. These companies create better, more useful products and services, which leads to happier consumers and ever-greater success. Through our Consumer Growth Platform, everyone can now gain answers to their questions from audiences of over 100 million consumers across 80 markets.

Our clients use Attest to learn more about their target consumers, enter new markets, build new categories, validate decisions, develop better products and services, measure their brand, track competition, all with the goal of driving sustained growth across the business.

Our clients include Heineken, Walgreens Boots, Samsung, Fever-Tree, Discovery, Transferwise, and Nutmeg, among many others.

We’re backed by leading VCs, including New Enterprise Associates (NEA) – the investors behind companies such as Uber, Salesforce, Box, and Tableau; Oxford Capital and Episode 1 (the investors behind LoveFilm, Zoopla, Betfair, Shazam, CarWow and many other greats); plus several high-powered amazing Angel investors.

Diversity statement

Diversity matters, and we celebrate it at Attest! We’re building an inclusive place to work where everyone feels they belong. We see you and you’re welcome here. Attest doesn’t discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic including race, religion or belief, gender or gender reassignment, age, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

We want to give everyone the opportunity to showcase their best selves during the interview process and beyond. Do let us know if there are any adjustments you’d like to make to ensure it’s more inclusive – we’re learning too, so we’re more than happy to adapt and accommodate where possible.

Job Description

Curious about distributed computing? Deploying on top of Kubernetes? Writing in GO? So are we!

Ori provides developers, networks and infrastructure owners with a software-defined edge platform to deploy, onboard & manage edge computing nodes over multiple environments and geographies.

We work with networks, big and small, to build the future of communication. Based in central London, we are searching for a hands on Cloud Architect with experience with cloud-native technologies to join a growing team of driven entrepreneurs. We are looking for candidates interested in driving technology choices, designing core architectures and bringing their experience to support the team and the development of our edge computing platform.

Promises

• Support your personal development, prioritising growth in knowledge around technology
  
• Build an environment that encourages individual autonomy within a close-knit team
  
• Provide constant technical challenges or puzzles requiring creative thinking & problem solving
  
• Encourage the proactive use of new technologies and processes
  

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for cloud and networking technologies and the implementation of a distributed compute solution
  
• Research and suggest updates to process and technology regularly to stay relevant
  
• Mentor the team, building an environment that supports communication and collaboration aligned with our company values
  
• Perform technical reviews and provide solution designs to the Engineering team
  
• Work directly with partners to translate network integration requirements into product features
  
• Design solutions with network virtualisation tools and cloud-native principles
  
• Ensure software is designed and implemented for quality, robustness and scale
  
• Take ownership and responsibility of production-ready code
  
• Contribute to and ensure the completion of code development so that product releases reach general availability on time

Expectations

• Experience and understanding of production-ready services in a Cloud-like environment
  
• Understanding of architectural designs and impacts resulting in real-world implementation
  
• Hands-on experience working building large scale web or cloud architectures
  
• Continued development experience; writing code, tests, and debugging issues
  
• Strong grasp of core architectural, programming principles and networking
  
• Experience with Go or similar languages (Java, C/C++, Rust)
  
• Demonstrable architectural concepts (SOA, Containerization) with coding and handling services through Docker
  
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar systems (Swarm, Nomad)
  
• Track record in multiple configuration management tools like Chef, Ansible, Puppet or Terraform
  
• Exposure to open source networking projects in the realm of cloud, PaaS/IaaS, containerization and distributed computing
  
• Awareness of Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN)
  
• Experience of modern deployment & associated tooling, integration, technology, patterns and release methodologies including automated configuration to design, build & provision at scale
  
• Evidence of design and delivery of different scales of digital technical architectures resulting in real-world implementation
  
• Passion for good documentation of processes and architectures, alongside open communication
  

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We believe diversity and inclusion make us a better company, and we embrace equal employment opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, opinions and skills.

Job Description

We have enormous and engaging technical challenges. We are designing an API that can drop easily into any one of dozens of ecommerce platforms, proprietary and off-the-shelf, hosted and on-site. We need to verify online identity and predict fraud while providing a beautiful and frictionless consumer experience, and mine user and financial information to approve and price credit, all in real time. And we are using technology to explore new approaches to consumer credit marketplaces that have never been attempted before.

We are looking to hire a senior engineer to join the current technology team in continuing to build out our core platform and product. This senior engineer will:

• be responsible for leading design and implementation of new features and iterations of our core platform
• continue to develop our core infrastructure for Bread’s scalable and reliable services
• deliver new working code every two weeks in a fast-paced, code-focused agile development environment
• work with the rest of the engineering team to deliver new functionality to face merchants, consumers, investors, and internal users
• design new iterations of our merchant integration APIs

Requirements

• Expert knowledge of server-side languages and data stores (our system is built with Go/Golang and PostgreSQL, but we’re also happy to speak with those that have strong backend experience with other languages, including JVM languages like Java or Scala; Python; or C++)
• Experience with message-based, loosely coupled architectures (we use RabbitMQ and Redis)
• Experience building scalable, reliable distributed systems
• Experience developing systems intended for cloud deployments (we use AWS)
• A passion for engineering and technology

Preferred

• Knowledge of financial products
• Strong front-end skills in JavaScript, using a framework like Angular (we use React)
• Experience with Go/PostgreSQL/Rabbit/Redis
• Knowledge of e-commerce platforms, like Magento, Shopify, Demandware, or others

Job Description

Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?

Based in New York, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers, teams, and businesses around the world. We believe that today’s entrepreneurs are changing the world through software. Our mission is to empower these entrepreneurs by bringing modern app development within reach for any developer, anywhere in the world.

We want people who are passionate about building the systems, culture, and processes that will improve the resiliency, reliability, scaling, and performance for cloud services.

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to work closely with our product engineering and infrastructure teams. Reporting to the Director of Platform Systems, the Site Reliability Engineer will be performing a mix of hands-on development, coaching, and collaborating with other teams and stakeholders to help bring DigitalOcean’s engineering systems and culture up to the next level.

This is a key opportunity to make a significant impact in DigitalOcean’s engineering and operational systems and influence future product designs and requirements. This role is essential to accelerate the improvement of the high expectations our customers have of DigitalOcean as we continue to grow and expand.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Performing hands on technical work to directly improve the reliability, resiliency, and scaling of our key platform systems
• Working with stakeholders to develop and implement reliability and performance metrics
• Facilitate DigitalOcean’s culture of learning by providing insight and recommendations for improvement
• Coaching teams and individuals on reliability best practices and solutions
• Working with other SREs and engineering leaders to define the architectures and practices that should be adopted in order to deliver on our engineering and operational goals
• Establishing best practices for development, architecture, deployment, and operations
• Working with peer SREs to improve services and processes (including architecture reviews, incident response, monitoring) in a cross-functional manner throughout the engineering organization

What We’ll Expect From You:

• Distinguished track record as SRE (or similar role) with hands-on experience implementing reliability, process, and scaling solutions
• History of fostering positive relationships with stakeholders and a track record of successful collaboration and coaching
• Clear communication skills (both written and verbal) to document processes and architectures
• Experience implementing disaster recovery best practices
• Developing robust solutions that facilitate streamlined resolution of customer inquiries through use of technologies for automation, deflection, and issue management
• Adept in Ruby and Go with a broad understanding of the full technology stack for a modern infrastructure
• Advocate of effective development environments with the use of CI/CD tooling and configuration management technologies such as Chef or Ansible

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We work hard but we always have fun doing it. We care deeply about each other and take our “no jerks” rule very seriously.
• We value development. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development. You’ll need to be great to get hired here and we promise you’ll get even better.
• We care about you. We offer competitive health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents, a monthly gym reimbursement to support your physical health, and a monthly commute allowance to make your trips to and from work easier.
• We invest in your future. We offer competitive compensation and a 401k plan with up to a 4% employer match. We also provide all employees with Kindles and reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We want you to love where you work. We have great office spaces located in the heart of SoHo NYC and Cambridge and offer daily catered lunches to keep your hunger at bay. We’re also very remote-friendly—we use Slack to communicate across the company—and all remote employees have the opportunity to onboard in-office and take an all-expenses paid trip to our annual company offsite, Shark Week, to get quality in-person time with the team at least once a year. We also allow employees to customize their workstations to meet their needs—whether remote or in office.
• We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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)