WalletConnect is the open-source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps. Started four years ago, our mission is to make web3 accessible to everyone. Every month, millions of people use WalletConnect in over 200 integrations.
We’re looking for a backend golang engineer to join our team to build and scale our network. To help grow web3, we recently launched WalletConnect 2.0 with new features, including multi-chain support, a decentralized back-end, faster connections, and 10x performance and scalability. You will help us expand and scale our backend messaging infrastructure.
To learn more about our plans for 2.0, take a look at our recent presentation at EthCC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cBIw7lFNnU
You will be responsible for building Golang messaging services. A main challenge is growing our services to scale for our millions of users across billions of websocket connections every month, as well as ensuring security and resiliency.
To help with your role, you will have the support of our devops team to deploy and manage our infrastructure, will work closely with our protocol and SDK teams, and have exposure to the full WalletConnect stack.
The ideal candidate is immersed in the best practices of golang at scale, messaging systems and Websockets.
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**THE COMPANY ** Solsten is advancing the human experience by empowering companies to build deeply resonating and healthier human-centered digital experiences and products.
At the intersection of play, psychology, and AI, our suite of products (Traits, Navigator, and Wavelength) give brands the ability to understand and meet their audiences’ experiential expectations at every step of their journey—ushering in a new era of technology that is better for people, and brilliant for businesses.
**THE ROLE ** Our engineering team is responsible for creating the platform that empowers this next generation of digital resonance. As a part of this team, you will work within a world-class team of engineers as well as with data scientists and UX designers to build the Solsten platform and products. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will bring your own technical expertise, help design new services as well as improve current ones, and carry projects from initial requirements, implementation, up to production.
**WHAT YOU WILL DO ** * Design software architecture based on business requirements, strategy, and priorities * Design and implementation of Microservices in Go * Write reusable, testable, and efficient code * Write highly scalable, high volume services * Create optimized database schemas * Advise and implement best practices in multiple technical domains * Proactively seek and realize new value-add opportunities for customers * WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR * BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject * 7+ years of practical backend development * Demonstrated experience with building Microservices in Go as well as high load production systems based on microservice architecture * Very knowledgeable about distributed systems and technologies (gRPC, Kafka, NoSQL, SQL, Redis, ...) * Hands-on experience with leading commercial Cloud platforms, preferably GCP * Sound understanding of Software Development Life Cycle * Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments * Pay attention to detail and strive for excellence in all aspects of your work * Manage complex situations with a structured and organized approach * Strong communicator that expresses ideas and information clearly and concisely * Detail-oriented, with excellent analytical, technical and problem-solving skills * A portfolio of activities / a side project that showcases your intellectual curiosity **WHAT MAKES YOU STAND OUT ** * Hands-on experience with Kubernetes * gRPC / Protobuf experience * DevOps and application deployment skills * Python is a plus * Experience with message brokers * Good ability to derive and design technical specifications from general product requirements * Familiarity with and interest in psychometric data
**YOUR SOLSTEN EXPERIENCE ** At the heart of Solsten is our people. We pride ourselves with the incredible team that makes up the company and are deeply humbled by each one of our employees. We have grown beyond measure and have amassed an incredible team of talented, passionate, and amazing individuals. It is our biggest priority to give all members of Solsten the space and motivation to WANT to journey on this career path with us and continue to be a part of our success. Here are some of the things our current employees appreciate:
Our team is spread out across the world, with hubs in Berlin, and Minneapolis. We believe that having our team close to one another fosters better communication and productivity. This role requires you to be based in Berlin, Germany where you will have an exciting working environment.
**OUR COMMITMENT ** Solsten is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, genetics, disability, or age.
About the Company OptioPay is working on an exciting greenfields customer facing product. We need you to build it with us and to help us go live later this year. It’s an exciting time to join the team, as you will be working on what will become a game changing experience for customers everywhere. Openbanking data plays a big role in our future, and we are very excited to work with you to ensure that customers everywhere are finally rewarded financially for the data that they generate in their day to day lives. Help us create an openbanking revolution!
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We are looking for Senior Software Engineer to join our office in Berlin. We’re a team of 5,000 ambitious, curious people building marketplace platforms that make it super easy for anyone to buy and sell almost anything, boosting local economies.
What you will be doing: • Working in a small, cross-functional team of about 5-7 people (product, data engineering, front-end, back-end, DevOps) • Have impact on the direction of the product, not just the technology side (a sense of ownership is not only allowed, but expected) • You’ll be writing maintainable, testable and performant code in a Continuous Integration Environment • Research, suggest and implement new solutions to our problem domain • Thinking about and acting on data management solutions • How to improve the architecture and split the different domains into microservices
Who we’re looking for: • Has senior-level experience with any state of the art back-end technology. Current tech stack includes Go, Python, Node and JVM — if you’re the candidate for us, you will pick up these technologies quickly, or convince us we should be using something else. • Worked in Agile environment (Kanban, Scrum or XP) • Knows PHP on at least average level • Was exposed to TDD or BDD • Takes ownership and can work independently • Who worked in high-traffic, high-volume, cloud applications • Sees the differences between SQL and noSQL databases
What we’ll give you: • Contributing to the global OLX Group • International career and travel opportunities • Work with an international team of top engineers learning from one another • A budget for conference and education • Competitive salary and great benefits • Home Office possibilities • Company Mobile phone • Any tool you might need MacBook Pro, Notebook, PC (selection of Dells and Thinkpad machine) • Free coffee, snacks, and drinks • Great office location around the corner from Berlin Hauptbahnhof What you need to know about us: • OLX is the world’s leading classifieds platform in high-growth markets. It’s available in more than 35 countries and in over 50 languages. The platform makes it so easy to connect people to buy, sell or exchange used goods and services. • OLX is part of the OLX Group, a global product and tech company with 17 brands, +40 countries, +5000 people and one mindset. • Our mission is to make it super easy for people to buy and sell almost anything, boosting local economy • We are proud to be different, and we work differently too. We combine the spirit and agility of a start-up with the maturity that comes from being part of a 100 year-old company. • We are curious, ambitious and allergic to corporate interference. We improvise, experiment and push each other further, embracing uncertainty and driving change.
If you’d like to learn more about the OLX Group take a look at the other parts of our website or reach out to Sebastian. And remember, we are an equal opportunities employer.