Golang Distributed Systems Jobs

Job Description

Backend Software Engineer - Remote in US or In Office (UT, PA, CA)  

**Senior, Staff, and Sr. Staff levels **

Nav is democratizing small business financing. In other words, we give small business owners access and control.  Yes, this challenges the norm, but it means working with curious, purpose driven, dedicated, and inquisitively smart people who push themselves, our company and the community to the next level (and every level after that). We are the people behind the tech. And when it’s good, we look for better. We don’t over think the value we bring nor spend time trying to revamp mantras. We also do not come up with some crafty way to tell you who we are and what we offer. We are Nav!  Here, you’ll gain a wealth of experience, learn the tricks of the trade, and work with winners. All companies say people are connected to their mission but in our case our mission and our people are one – it is a way of being not just a cause you are committed to.  And since 2013, Nav has holistically and organically developed its own ideology because Nav can only be Nav.

WHAT WE EMPOWER YOU WITH:

• Build and scale services that integrate with banking data vendors, Salesforce, and other internal services. Our focus is in Go, but we support other services in languages such as Ruby, Elixir, and Python.
• Optimize Nav’s customer experience, from first contact, through sign-up, and applying for loans and credit cards.
• Build the framework that Nav’s solutions (credit reports, alerts, financing marketplace) plug into.
• Turn business requirements into technical solutions.
• Help establish best practices within Nav's growing Engineering organization.

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE:

• A track record of successfully delivering maintainable backend systems in a Linux environment.
• Experience programming in Go, Ruby, or Elixir. Active interest in learning new paradigms and languages.
• Relentless problem solver.

WHO YOU ARE:

• You uplift those around you.
• You’ve got great verbal and written communication skills.
• You’ve got amazing relationship-building and relationship-management skills.
• You are comfortable working on complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
• You have a bias for action, a “driver” that gets stuff done, using analytical thinking.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity, ability to change course quickly based on new insights.

INCLUSION AT NAV:

At Nav, we celebrate what makes our employees unique because the businesses we serve are progressively diverse and distinctly original. Navericks are diverse, side hustlers, immigrants, veterans, queer, and we push generational boundaries. We are college dropouts, PhDs, special needs parents, allies, pet owners and community leaders. Navericks are human.  We are committed to upholding a safe, supportive environment where everyone matters. We are committed to making a better future for all of us. We have created a workplace where people of all backgrounds can express their identities authentically. To put it simply we want you to be proud to be you.

OUR COMPENSATION PHILOSOPHY IS SIMPLE BUT POWERFUL:

• We believe great, enduring relationships are grounded in trust and transparency.
• Compensation shouldn’t be a distraction, and employees should understand how pay and career advancement decisions are made.
• Providing equal pay for equal work is table stakes for being a great place to work.
• Gender and ethnic inequity should only be something that our children read about in history books.
• We believe providing Navsters with company ownership, competitive pay, and a range of meaningful benefits is the start of creating a culture where people want to give the best they’ve got — not because they’re simply making money, but because they’ve fallen in love with our vision, mission, values, and team.

OUR IMPACT ON YOU:

• Competitive Pay
• Company Ownership
• Unlimited Vacation
• Benefits Day One
• 6 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
• Work From Anywhere (yes we were distributed before it was cool)
• Flexible Work Arrangements
• Free Telehealth and Telemental Health For All Employees
• Employee Networking and Events
• Community Network Groups (women’s, PRIDE, culture)
• Meaningful Perks and Rewards
• Learning and Development Opportunities
• Pet Insurance

A NAVERICK’S DNA: 

• We look at the future and say “why not”;  we see possibilities where others see problems or routines
• We show the way ahead and are committed to achieving ambitious goals.
• We practice straight talk and listen generously to each other with empathy
• We value different opinions and point of views
• We ensure that we connect outside as well as inside to learn from others and inspire each other.
• We hold ourselves accountable for delivering results
• We choose to not to be a victim of circumstance.
• We make decisions &  take responsibility so that we can act & support each other, rather than adopting defensive, and “finger pointing” behaviors.
• As leaders we motivate & engage our teams to undertake beyond what they originally thought possible, by developing our teams & creating the conditions for people to grow and empower themselves through enabling & coaching.

Job Description

Lab49 has an opportunity available for a Go Engineer to lead work on complex and challenging projects to drive transformative change for our top- tier Financial Services clients. Operating in an Agile environment, the Go Engineer will have strong experience to work on next-generation financial systems.

Requirements:

• 8+ years in engineering and overall good hands-on experience building for desktop (either UI or headless)
• 3+ years GoLang engineering experience
• Experience with messaging and events processing
• Experience building native libraries for Windows (linux/OSX would be nice, too)
• Ideally, experience interopping with other languages (C#, Java)
• Experience building windows (linux/OSX would be nice) services
• Experience building and interacting with REST APIs
• Experience in security (IDM, Certificates, PKI or similar infrastructures)

WHO ARE WE?

Lab49 is a specialist consultancy that designs and develops bespoke and innovative technology solutions in partnership with key participants in financial markets. We enable our clients to meaningfully differentiate themselves and successfully navigate the shifting landscape in financial services. Our specialist focus on financial markets and our integrated strategy, design and product development expertise uniquely position us as a partner capable of effectively delivering and embedding best-in-class solutions tailored to meet clients’ complex and varied commercial and technical needs.

We were founded in 2002 to bring Silicon Valley solutions to Wall Street’s door. Since then, we have worked on successive waves of technological change, including distributed computing, high-speed automation, enterprise UX and digital distribution (for which Lab49 was among the first significant practices established on Wall Street), DevOps, cloud and data science. Today, we are an established partner in financial markets, having delivered hundreds of projects for clients including all of the world’s tier-one investment banks and many of the largest buy-side firms globally.

Job Description

**WHO WE ARE? **

Our mission started in the UK and we're currently one of the top startups to work for in the UK and Europe.

We’re now looking for outstanding Senior Software Engineers to join our new engineering team that we will be building in Canada. As one of our first Canada-based engineering hires you will have a rare and exciting opportunity to shape the product and the team we hire, you'll be working 100% remotely and cross-collaborating with our engineers based in the EU and UK. This will enable us to diversify our talent distribution and bring in some of the world's best engineers to build Form3's revolutionary payment technology platform.

THE TEAM

All our engineers work within small, agile, self-managed teams that emphasise best practice and believe quality is everyone’s responsibility. They favour collaborative development and leverage open-source tools and communities, whilst making sure to share their know-how back up stream.

**THE ROLE **

At Form3 you will have the opportunity to design, develop and deploy backend cloud-native services within a containerised microservices architecture. The work is cutting edge, constantly changing and focused on building and operating critical, highly available, low latency, scalable solutions.

Play an active role in introducing new technologies and ways of working to stay ahead of the competition, without ever compromising on quality. Contribute and collaborate with other engineers on technical and architectural decisions. Enjoy end-to-end ownership from concept to deployment, including building and operating infrastructure, toolset and deployment pipelines. Develop your skills, work on cool projects with the latest tech, all whilst working with a talented, diverse and friendly group of people.

Here are a few of the tools and methodologies we utilise:

• Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes
• Platform: CockroachDB, Elasticsearch, PostgresDB, Vault, Consul, Linkerd, NATS
  
• Tools: Terraform, GitHub, Prometheus, Pact.io
• Code: Go (and a little Java), containerised microservices, CQRS, open-source
• Ways of working: TDD/BDD, Pair Programming, 100% remote, DevSecOps

**WE’RE LOOKING FOR ENGINEERS WITH **

• Experience in designing and building distributed systems
• Familiarity with cloud and containerisation technologies, test automation tools and CI/CD pipelines
• Interest in owning projects end-to-end and supporting them as they go live in production
• Appreciation of clean code and software engineering best-practice
• A passion for learning and an interest in Go (previous experience isn’t required), along with a “right tool for the job” mentality
• Great communication skills who enjoy sharing knowledge and collaborating with others

BENEFITS

• 30 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Remote friendly environment
• Remote working equipment allowance
• Flexible working arrangements
• Udemy and educational reimbursements
• Full details are available on our careers page
• Form3 appreciates that we all lead different and often really busy lives. We work remotely 100% of the time and many of us work part time. If you’re interested in hearing what different flexible working arrangements may be available, we’d love to chat.

Please note that all our engineering teams are currently based in the EU and UK. Due to time-zone differences and working practicalities, we’re only able to hire Engineers based in Canada East timezones or based in Canada and able to work close to GMT-4. However, this may change in the future as we start streamlining some of our internal structure and recruitment processes in Canada.

**ABOUT US **

We are an award-winning cloud-native payment technology provider for financially regulated institutions. Launched in 2016, we've doubled in size year on year as we continue to redefine what a truly instant payment experience means.

We celebrate diversity, promote entrepreneurialism and are committed to giving everyone a say in shaping our business. Here you will grow as a person and accomplish incredible things. A career at Form3 is empowering, inspiring and fun. Join us and help shape the future of payments.

**EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES **

At Form3 we embrace equal opportunity and are committed to building a diverse team of exceptional individuals. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status and it is our strong belief that the more inclusive we are as a business, the better our work will be

Job Description

High Level Description

If you're a Golang developer and you're looking for a challenging role in building a cloud-native product that will help to make a dent in the device security market, look no further. We are looking for motivated early hires who want to make an impact with a company that aims to become the market leader.

Major Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain loosely coupled, microservice-based systems with scalability, resiliency, manageability, and observability as core design tenets.
• Review code and give feedback
• Support release planning with conceptual design and development/refinement of software engineering guidelines.
• Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed designs.
• Collaborate with disparate development teams to help plan releases and give feedback to aid in the advancement of the product.

Required Skills and Experience

• 4+ years professional experience in software development at least one modern programming language, including Golang, TypeScript, C++, Java, or Rust
• 1+ years of Golang experience
• Software engineering fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures & algorithms, problem-solving, and complexity analysis
• Strong sense of collaboration, ownership, urgency, and drive
• Strong communication skills
• Understanding of distributed system challenges and solutions

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform
• Event-sourcing experience
• Understanding of information security practices and procedures
• Neo4J expertise

Job Description

About Grafana Labs:

There are more than 700,000 active installations of Grafana around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a SpaceX launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps companies including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay manage their observability strategies with full-stack offerings that can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud, or self-managed with Grafana Enterprise Stack. The Grafana stack has grown to include two other open-source projects, Grafana Loki (for logs) and Grafana Tempo (for traces)

This is a remote position, and we are considering candidates in the North, Central & South Americas regions.

About Grafana Cloud:

Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Cortex, Loki, and Tempo – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack.

Our Grafana Cloud pipeline moves millions of data points, loglines, and traces per second from our customers’ environments into a highly available, low-latency stack that processes and stores the data, and serves it to dashboards and alerting tools. We aim to grow this to hundreds of millions per second, and it's critical that as we grow, we improve our performance, increase our reliability, and do it all more efficiently.

You would be joining one of our Cloud squads, whose responsibilities span from adapting and delivering our open-source offerings to a cloud environment that can support millions of users, writing software that allows those users to easily send data from within their infrastructure, or helping to build monitoring and alerting solutions. Our tech stack is mostly made up of services written in Go, running on multiple Kubernetes clusters that leverage Google’s Cloud Platform.

Our culture is remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote. We provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and strong communication skills are a must

Within 1 month you will be able to:

• Gain a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers
• Get to know the codebase and contribute to our growing list of third-party integrations
• Participate in ongoing design discussions that allow us to collaborate on and inform our technical decisions
• Significantly contribute to a major initiative in our roadmap

Within 3 months you will be able to:

• Take an active role in shaping our roadmap and your own career objectives
• Drive a project from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
• Be a part of your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running

Requirements:

• You are familiar with programming languages like Go, C, C#, C++, or Rust
• You are able to write clean, robust, and performant software
• You have experience with network programming or distributed systems development

Nice to haves:

• Familiarity with operations/SRE and the concept of infrastructure as code
• Experience with the observability space in general (metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting)
• Experience with Kubernetes / Kafka / Cassandra / Bigtable / syslog / opentracing or similar technologies
• Familiarity with time-series applications and concepts, especially Graphite or Prometheus.

Equal Opportunity Employer- At Grafana Labs we’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. We know that our company runs on the hard work and the dedication of our passionate and creative employees.

We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organisation and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organisation as we grow.

Job Description

Description 90 Percent of Everything is looking for Senior Golang Developer/Team Lead to join the team on a full-time basis. Our goal is to revolutionise shipping by creating a suite of comprehensive software solutions for the Maritime industry. Our journey begins now. Over the next couple of years, our teams and squads will build more than 30 products from the ground up. This includes everything from global vessel tracking to vessel performance analysis, crew optimization and so much more. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to apply cutting-edge technology to revolutionising an iconic industry.

Introduction to 90PoE

Our tech stack consists of React and React Native applications communicating using GraphQL to microservice containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. Internally our services use gRPC for communication and achieve high scalability thanks to a Kafka based event driven architecture and persist data to a mix of RDBS and No-SQL databases including PostgresDB, MongoDB, S3 and Elasticsearch. We follow modern CI/CD and agile methodologies to deploy into production multiple times per week.

What’s in it for you?

• Working with latest cutting-edge technologies
• Disrupting a century old industry in a startup environment
• Opportunity to grow and develop your core skills
• Deliver a green field system
• Work with a diverse multicultural team in an agile environment
• Variety of knowledge sharing and self-development opportunities
• Competitive salary
• State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with warm atmosphere, which creates good working conditions
• Opportunity to travel to client offices based in London
• Experience firsthand the squad-chapter-guild workflow model, our version of the Spotify model

Responsibilities

• As a member of the squad, you will be developing robust microservices to form the heart of as SaaS platform to serve globally distributed users.
• Follow Golang best practices to deliver and support production ready industry quality code.
• Responsible for full lifecycle of services. Developers will take the services they build from design, through implementation and into production.
• Continuous improvement of all development and deployment processes.
• Successful delivery of your services into production.
• Regular and clear communication of progress to the squad product owner and technical lead.

Requirements * Full hands-on technical experience * Team Lead experience

Proficiency in: * Golang * Protobuf/gRPC * RDBMS and NoSQL database * Microservices architecture concepts * Container based architecture: Docker, Kubernetes * Advanced use of git * Use of Unix systems commands

Nice to have: * AWS stack experience * Exposure to GraphQL * Postgres and MongoDB * Ability to perform basic DevOps tasks * Experience using Kafka * EFK stack * ElasticSearch

Past experience Demonstrated track record and proficiency in the points below: * Deliver features autonomously with a high degree of team coordination * Deliver code based on precise architecture spec * Deliver code without relying on precise architecture spec * Automated testing * Working with CI/CD practices * Delivering code to production * Maintaining production ready code * Collaborating in small but fast paced teams * Event driven architecture and message passing

More about you * Good level of English * Willingness to learn and open mind about new technologies * Confident to operate in a fast-paced environment * A collaborative approach and willingness to engage in an environment of active idea sharing * Ability to learn autonomously * Excellent all-round communications skills

Benefits * We offer a competitive financial package which includes competitive salary, company bonus scheme, employee referral scheme, a contributory pension and a travel to work loan * We have a positive attitude to flexible working, a competitive annual holiday allowance, cycle to work scheme, supportive family polices and discounted gym membership * We have a culture of which we are proud, and a highly skilled and diverse workforce

Interview Process

• Phone screen with Recruiter
• Cultural Interview
• Technical Screening
• Take home task followed by Technical Round

Job Description

Location: Lyon or remote Job type: Full-Time Salary: according to your level of expertise and experience

About Upfluence

Upfluence helps brands tell their story with powerful influencer & content marketing technology. Upfluence’s software allows brands and agencies to identify and contact millions of social influencers and bloggers at scale to execute comprehensive influencer marketing campaigns, as well as provide detailed reporting metrics. Since the launch of our SaaS software in January 2017, the company has yielded a monthly double-digit growth rate, and we are therefore seeking further expansion for our team and offices. Our rapidly growing global team is currently distributed between our offices in NYC, Los Angeles, Switzerland, and Lyon.

We are now looking for a talented and passionate Back-end Engineer who, together with the product team, will take part in creating and constantly improving the online platform.

What we do

• Our platform aggregates, keeps up to date and serves the content of 5M of influencers across all trending social networks of the internet. This raises a certain amount of engineering challenges related to data, scalability and performance. At the scale we’re at, the naïve solution often isn’t enough.
• Our backend stack is focused around Golang / Ruby as programming languages, PostgreSQL, Apache Cassandra as database systems, Elasticsearch as a search engine, RabbitMQ as message broker. Also, we use Apache Thrift for RPC and Prometheus for monitoring to name a few.
• We’re firm believers of micro service architecture and domain driven design, making our codebase highly flexible and reusable. Some parts of our production have actually been running for more than 5 years!
• We’re DevOps minded. Our backend engineers ship to production multiple times a day and are responsible for their production. We’re always working towards reducing the maintenance toil by automating as much as possible our processes using tools like Github actions or our own in-house frontend deployer.
• We’re running around 50 applications in production, making it around 1600 containers live, across 90 servers. Not to mention that we’ve been running containers in production for more than 7 years. We’re currently in the works of moving our production workload to Kubernetes.
• We’re product-centric: we’re not writing code for the sake of it, but to provide the best service to our customers.
• We strongly believe that collective intelligence is the very root of success for an engineering organization. Each and everyone has a word to say regarding the technical implementation of a feature. That’s why we rely on tools like proposals and RFCs to encourage this culture, as the best companies in the field do.
• We love open source and contribute to it by opening our own libraries to share them with as many people as possible.

Responsibilities

• Writing highly reliable, maintainable and tested code that makes the correct assumptions based on the context. You know that in our field, everything is a matter of tradeoffs.
• Getting involved in the feature lifecycle, from its inception, through its technical design and implementation, to its maintenance in production 3 months / years after releasing it ;-).
• Work in collaboration with the team, get involved in mentoring juniors, reviewing PRs and writing RFCs. Being at ease with written communication is a must.
• Work hand in hand with Customer Success and Support teams, to make sure our customers have the best experience using our product.

Who we are looking for

• You’re eager to discover how our product works and you’re keen to learn and master its technologies. We’re looking for enthusiastic people and great learners who go beyond the tools, not technical experts. Of course, if you already have experience with our stack that’s a plus, but definitely not a requirement.
• You like to work in a team and to take on challenges, and you are fluent or comfortable working in English. Our team is based mostly in France, but speaking French is not a requirement.
• You’re reliable: You keep your word when you can, communicate early on and come up with solutions when it looks like [we || you] are running into a wall.
• You’re not afraid to ask questions and raise issues.
• You’re a team player.
• You care about the product and strive to make something useful.

What we can offer you

• Your spot with the team in one of our awesome Lyon or LA offices, or even remote, either way is fine with us. You’ll be answering issues on Github and making bad jokes on Discord anyway!
• An entrepreneurial and dynamic startup environment with room for growth;
• A mixed and international team (10+ nationalities);
• An empowering and autonomous position in an entrepreneurial environment;
• Regular exchanges with the US/FR offices;
• Company shares;
• The answer to life, the universe and everything;
• Join a motivated and growing team!

Discover our Stack: https://stackshare.io/upfluence/upfluence
Sounds like the perfect opportunity? Apply now to join us!

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

Interview Process

The interview process would go through 4 steps as followed:

1. After sending your resume, the team is in charge of reviewing and selecting candidates: if you are selected, you'll have the chance to discuss for a 1st interview with 2 members of the team;
2. If the interview goes well, the team will send a little technical test your way for completion;
3. Upon the test being sent back, the team is charge of reviewing it and we program a second interview to debrief it with you;
4. If the test and debrief interview were successful, the last stage consists in an interview with at least one of the founders of the company, to get to know more about you and what you want to accomplish with us.

Job Description

Here at Holland & Barrett, we are transforming the company from the ground up, bringing in brand new technology and hiring driven developers who will be the driving force behind our success.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Golang Developer for an initial 6 months contract to help us develop and deliver a backend platform. You will be part of a team that focuses on our customer's health and wellness goals and are looking to increase our brand awareness across the mobile application space.

Skills Required

• Fluency in Golang
• Experience with SQL servers like MySQL or PostgreSQL or RDS or similar
• NoSQL experience will be a huge bonus
• TDD
• Knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS or GCP
• Expertise with building scalable and complex services
• Passion to learn new technologies
• Experience with high load backend services or distributed systems
• Be familiar with the processing of large volumes of data
• End-to-end RESTful API experience
• Ability to suggest improvements, new features or user stories to the Product Owner

What are you waiting for? Get in touch and let's talk about who we are, what we want to achieve and what the future holds.

We’re innovative, we’re ambitious, we are Holland & Barrett!

Job Description

Description:

Smallpdf is the most-loved and most trusted PDF software on the planet. We serve over 500 million users in 24 different languages processing millions of documents per day, and in every country in the world—even Antarctica! To deliver a product that users love, we solve complex technical problems at scale using cloud-native and open source technologies.

As one of the most successful startups in Switzerland, with staff from all over the world, we're on a mission to make PDF easy. We love open-source and using the latest technologies to scale our distributed application to process millions of files every day.

💁‍♂️ About the Contract Management Team:

The Contract Management team aims to streamline and automate routine contracts of business customers so they can stay on top of their legal and financial needs with no hassle. This team is responsible to enable our users to manage the lifecycle of their contracts from the creation to the execution, archiving, and renewal while ensuring the highest level of security and legality. We are a highly engaged, hands-on team that values ideas and collaboration.

As a Backend engineer in our team, you'll contribute to solving challenges tackling digital signatures and advanced file management for our users.

What you will do:

• Design and build systems at scale, which will be used by millions of people every day
• Work on most impactful changes, researched and prioritized by the team to make sure we are focusing on the right things
• Collaborate with other team members by challenging ideas, brainstorming, and having discussions to get to the best solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of one of the services that power our product for millions of users
• Ensure the scalability and reliability of services from top to bottom.
• Build simple, loosely coupled, composable, and reliable software
• Architect and develop infrastructure to mitigate scalability, security, and reliability risks.
• Mentor and grow a community of backend engineers to contribute to Smallpdf

Our Stack:

• Golang
• AWS
• Docker
• Ansible
• Terraform

Discover more of our stack on Stackshare

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in backend software development.
• Expertise with at least one of the following languages, or equivalent: Golang, Java, Kotlin, C#, C, C++, Python.
• Ability to quickly pick up new technologies. We use Golang as our language of choice for backend services.
• Experience scaling (micro-) web services to millions of users.
• Can excel independently and have a sense of ownership of your own work.
• Fluent English.
• Based in Zurich or willing to relocate (this is an on-site role).
• Swiss or EU passport holder (or other permits that allow you to work in Switzerland).

Nice to have:

• Experience with Golang.
• Experience with AWS.
• Experience with high traffic backend services.

Benefits:

• The opportunity to impact a successful, growing scale-up and its tools used by millions worldwide.
• We are remote-work friendly (we prioritize a healthy work-life balance).
• Work in small, highly motivated, cross-functional teams that push boundaries.
• A dedicated annual budget and time off for personal development
• Enjoy company events in the Swiss Alps, on Lake Zurich, or even further afield.
• After-work events include BBQs, cinema, game nights, meet-ups, and more.
• Learn German with our free German language course.
• Hack days to challenge yourself and the team.
• Unlimited free coffee and drinks.
• Weekly team lunch on the house.
• Brand new offices in the heart of Zurich.

Rated by Forbes as one of the top 10 cities in the world for work-life balance, Zurich is the place to work for anyone who wants more out of life. From chocolate, cheese, and Rӧsti to snow-capped mountains, haute couture, Swiss-made watches, and outstanding public transport, whatever it is that makes your heart beat faster, it’s all right here in Switzerland—and so is Smallpdf.

Smallpdf is an equal opportunity employer. We believe a talented, diverse, and inclusive workforce is our greatest strength. We strongly oppose any form of hiring or workplace discrimination against candidates or employees on any basis, including race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, philosophy, nationality, disability, or genetic information. We’re committed to fostering a safe, supportive environment where everyone can come to work as their full selves and reach their greatest potential.

By sending your application, you allow Smallpdf to handle and store your data.

Smallpdf does not seek or accept unsolicited resumes or CVs from recruitment agencies. We are not responsible for, and will not pay, any fees, commissions, or any other payment related to unsolicited resumes or CVs except as required in a written contract between Smallpdf and the recruitment agency or party requesting payment of a fee.

Job Description

We're looking for an experienced Backend Go Software Engineer to join the Geckoboard team!

Why join us...

Every single one of us comes to work every day to do something we love. We get to tackle big problems, but in a way that recognises everyone’s need to work with dignity and purpose in a supportive and inclusive environment. It's the most wonderful thing. In fact the fun part is trying to figure out all the different ways we can come up with to make data accessible and understandable for everyone. It really is amazing. The best part is that we work in an atmosphere of openness, trust and transparency, where everyone is empowered to learn and flourish. We're actually doing really well. We have a product our customers love.

We're really excited to be growing.

You'll be joining a team of empowered engineers in a supportive environment that values experimentation, work-life balance and personal development. We've built a culture of knowledge sharing and feedback, so you'll be involved in planning and prioritisation of work as well as peer reviews and pair programming.

We work in small and focused cross-functional teams, usually made up of a Product Manager, a Designer, and a mix of Frontend and Backend Engineers. QA and Infrastructure tend to come in at the points they're needed or for specific projects. We scope out our project such that we're able to deliver meaningful work but small enough to iterate and take on board feedback quickly. We encourage our engineers to get involved in different teams and projects based on their interests, skills and opportunities to learn. We're also equally mindful about technical debt and make sure we dedicate time to addressing it.

At Geckoboard, we are seeking to solve a real problem and build a long-lasting product. As a result, we place a high value on a clean and maintainable codebase, and on practices that ensure we can continue to deliver quality software rapidly and iteratively.


Learning is also a big part of our engineering culture. Once every two weeks every team takes a “Lab Day”, when everyone is free to work on projects that interest them, learn new skills or contribute to open source. We encourage these projects and often they have led to improvements in the way we work or concepts that have then been prioritised, developed further and added to our Product.

Our stack

Our main frontend application is a large React 16+ codebase and our tests are written with Jest. For communicating with our backend services, we use an Apollo client and query a GraphQL gateway written in Node.js that exposes a single schema but dispatches queries to a number of gRPC services on the backend.

While our backend services are mostly written in Go and run on AWS, the GraphQL gateway is owned by the frontend team, which puts them in the driving seat when it comes to defining the APIs for a new piece of functionality, and provides a single point of reference for both frontend and backend.

While adding features to the product, we’ve been building and maintaining an internal React component library with an emphasis on reusability and documentation. Our frontend team is looking to expand this library, with the potential to open source it in the future.

You should apply if...

• What we’ve described sounds interesting

• You’ve worked with Go before*

• You’re interested in distributed systems

• You’re collaborative; you empathise, listen and discuss

• You actively seek out feedback in your work and to ensure you understand the problem you’re solving

• You have experience collaborating on technical decisions in an open and creative environment

• You understand the value of automated testing and a test-driven development approach

• Right now we're only considering mid to senior-level candidates, if you're interested in joining the Geckoboard team but earlier in your career, head to www.geckoboard.com/careers and get in touch. We'll be hiring at different levels throughout the year, so we'd love to hear from you and chat about future jobs!

Logistics

At this time, we’re only considering candidates who are (or will be) based in the United Kingdom or Western Europe (CET timezone).

Perks & Benefits

Work your best

Right now, we work fully remote from around the globe. We’re big on work-life balance and flexible work. We have some core hours but it's up to you to decide how you work around those. We consider 25 days of holiday a year to be a minimum, not a maximum, and have a flexible working policy so that if you need to step out for a school run, an appointment, or something else, it’s no problem. We don't do "crunch time" and have a deep commitment to a clear separation of life and work.

Some of our team also have shorter working weeks and we’re more than happy to accommodate this or other arrangements when possible. Learn more about life at Geckoboard at www.geckoboard.com/careers.

Interview Process

Our hiring process

1. 20-30 minute call with our Talent Partner
2. 45-minute Zoom video call with the Hiring Manager
3. Coding Challenge
4. Meet the team via Zoom - about 2.5 hours

The whole process takes about 3 weeks end to end, but we’re flexible!