This job posting is no longer available
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
Your skills, experience, and qualifications
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.
**About Scratchpad **
At Scratchpad, our mission is to unlock the highest levels of performance for sales teams. We believe we can do that by reducing complexity and creating delightful experiences, which has led us to pioneer the first workspace for revenue teams. We take the most tedious parts of daily work and turn them into efficient, delightful experiences that positively impact salespeople's professional and personal lives. But don’t take our word for it - read what our customers and top-tier investors are raving about
**Life at Scratchpad **
The Scratchpad team is defined by our values: simplicity, ideas, results, speed, delight, and feedback. We profoundly care about our customers, the work we do, and each other. You'll constantly be learning from your colleagues as we have a strong culture of feedback. We believe it's part of what has made us successful as a "remote first" company.
Working on the Engineering Team
You will collaborate with engineers, leadership, product, design, and customers to drive quality and innovation. Being a creative problem solver, you’ll enjoy designing solutions for difficult engineering problems. Building a workspace designed to improve sales performance is not easy, so we're looking for resilient and ambitious people who are excited by this challenge. If you’re compelled to work on a team that leads with empathy, values personal growth and never stops learning, join us!
**About You **
User-Focused: You put the user first with a keen sense of how your code will impact the user's experience in terms of performance, security and usability
Language Agnostic: we use a lightweight tech stack of Postgres, Go and Vue
Team Player: You're proactive; you can jump in and help clarify specs, work with users to understand bugs, etc.
Experience: 6+ years as a backend engineer
Goal Oriented: Problem-solver mindset who's biased towards action and getting stuff done
Self Aware: You don’t shy away from asking for help and are unafraid to say, “I don’t know”.
Lifelong Learner: Place value on personal growth and constructive feedback
Empathetic Communicator: You take a compassionate, organized and collaborative communication style with colleagues and users
Your Impact
Take full ownership of bringing specs to life by impacting all aspects of the development process from ideation, design, delivery, maintenance, and operations
Collaborate with teammates to come up with solutions to architectural and scaling challenges
Work cross-functionally and with end-users (revenue teams) to craft the best experience possible
Help shape the future of Scratchpad's culture and product
Perks
Competitive salary and meaningful equity
Medical, dental, and vision insurance (with 80% premium coverage)
$1,200 L&D stipend per fiscal year
Paid parental leave
Flexible Vacation/PTO + 11 company-wide holidays
401k with 4% company matching (and vests instantly!)
Stipend for home office
At least two in-person company offsites a year
Fully remote
Compensation
The estimated base salary range for this role is $172,000 - $200,000. Compensation estimates are based on market data about the role and level while individual compensation offers will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
**Our Commitment **
We believe that great ideas can come from anyone and anywhere. As an equal opportunity employer, we interact with respect, kindness, and compassion. We are committed to building a company that embraces and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion. We're not afraid to let go of existing beliefs as we learn new information and uncover better ideas.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Diverse teams build better products, offer more unique perspectives and help foster an inclusive environment for everyone.