Golang Engineer Jobs in United States

Job Description

VMware streamlines the journey for organizations to become digital businesses that deliver better experiences to their customers and empower employees to do their best work. Our software spans compute, cloud, networking and security, and digital workspace.

Bitfusion is a group inside of VMware that develops advanced virtualization technologies for the most compute-intensive applications delivering automatic acceleration and efficiency on any infrastructure. Bitfusion is looking for talent to drive market success by building readily deployable software solutions that redefine computing and unleash the power of heterogeneous computing to end users.

Bitfusion delivers the industry’s first AI Infrastructure platform enabling disaggregated, virtualized & remote attached compute accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs & AI ASICs) across any Environment / Cloud, & Application resulting in a 2X Performance Boost, 4X Cost Reduction for AI Training and Inference Deployment.

Overview

Bitfusion is a ground breaking technology for addressing disaggregation in the AI/ML accelerator market. As a technology Bitfusion allows clients to remotely attach to one or more acclerators, or fractional accelerators, and run Machine Learning applications. This substantially increases the utilization for these accelerators and the ability share them by our customers.

As a Backend Platform Engineer with the Bitfusion team you will be involved in creating a management cluster of these accelerator servers, integrating and communicating with vSphere and also ensuring the scheduling and allocation of these resources is done efficiently, amongst other tasks.

You will have experience in developing RESTful and RPC based APIs using Golang. Ideally you will have experience in developing and orchestrating with the vSphere management APIs.

What you will be doing

• Integrating with existing vSphere APIs to ensure that the Bitfusion user experience is a seamless part of interacting with both AI accelerators and standard virtualization in vSphere
• Working closely with the Engineering an QE teams to ensure a robust and flexible environment exists for our test and development infrastructure. This is a mix of different flavors of hardware and network interconnects and using AWS and customer environments to expand our coverage and support
• Build and test automation tools for infrastructure provisioning
• Identifying the right matrix of software and hardware to ensure a high quality product with good test coverage
• Triaging our automated infrastructure failures
• Document and design various processes; update existing processes
• Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations

What we need to see

• Work collaboratively within a team environment of other engineers to meet aggressive goals and high quality standards
• Familiarity with distributed systems
• Familiarity with advanced concepts of computer architecture, data structures and standard programming practices
• Experience in test frameworks for enterprise software and hardware
• Experience with VMware’s virtualization technology
• Experience with using vSphere APIs to coordinate and orchestrate behavior
• Experience with Golang and Python (Bash/C/C++ is a plus)

Ways to stand out from the crowd

• GPU/accelerator management experience
• Experience with high-speed fabrics and RDMA
• Familiarity with Cassandra
• Experience working with VMs/Hypervisors, Docker/Containers and Kubernetes.

Category : Engineering and Technology
Subcategory: Software Engineering
Experience: Business Leadership
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Remote: No
Posted Date: 2020-10-26

VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our cloud, mobility, and security software form a flexible, consistent digital foundation for securely delivering the apps, services and experiences that are transforming business innovation around the globe. At the core of what we do are our people who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community. Shape what’s possible today at http://careers.vmware.com.

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Job Description

Bison Trails is the leading blockchain infrastructure provider, and we are looking for an exceptional Blockchain Network Engineer to join our highly-skilled and passionate team in New York City. The ideal candidate is an experienced, motivated, self-starting engineer with a love for building containerized applications in a cloud native development environment.

We believe in the power of blockchain technology and building a decentralized future that enables greater participation in global financial networks. Our mission is to provide superior infrastructure on multiple blockchains, strengthen the entire ecosystem, and enable the pioneers of tomorrow.

What does it mean to be a Blockchain Network Engineer at Bison Trails?

• You have 3-5 years of infrastructure or full-stack engineering experience under your belt
  
• You are a self-starter with a proven track record of shipping quality product
  
• You are an autonomous worker with the ability to proactively manage the needs of a growing company with minimal oversight
  
• You possess an analytical mindset and feel comfortable using qualitative and quantitative data to inform your decision making
  
• You are proficient in a modern programming language such as Go, Python, or Rust
  
• You are experienced in containerizing modern applications, particularly blockchain networks.
  
• You have familiarity with Go and the Kubernetes ecosystem, but are not necessarily an expert
  
• You take pride in having excellent written and verbal communication skills
  
• You enjoy entrepreneurial environments and want to help build something meaningful
  
• You preferably work in the greater NYC area, but if not, you are US-based with previous remote experience
  

Day to day, you will…

• Work to support new and existing blockchain networks on our platform. This means dockerizing, YAML templating, and otherwise writing code that facilitates different networks running on our Kubernetes based platform every day
  
• Research complex topics around specific blockchain networks including consensus algorithms, economic models, and node/network topology.
  
• Interact and collaborate with other engineers and team members; we have a highly focused and collaborative team. Our team prioritizes creating a shared understanding of our systems/supported networks, and we are dedicated to supporting each other on a daily basis.
  
• Contribute to blockchain network support discussions. We are looking for a strong technical leader that can help drive and own support for multiple networks.
  
• Participate in the overall blockchain network community. Join third party discussions and become a contributor to the development of new and existing networks.
  
• Build services and infrastructure that help to automate the deployment of blockchain network infrastructure
  
• Incorporate monitoring, alerting, and observability to support blockchain networks that allow us to maintain the highest standards of health, reliability and uptime.
  
• Write integration tests and contribute to maintaining a healthy CI/CD pipeline.
  

We are conveniently located in Tribeca, NYC. We provide competitive industry salaries along with:
- Company-paid health, dental, vision, life & disability insurance
- 401(k) plan, FSA & commuter benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Training, mentorship, and coaching from industry leaders and company leadership
- The opportunity to grow alongside a company that is helping create the decentralized future
- Work in tandem with fun, diverse and open-minded colleagues

Job Description

Please provide your personal blog and Github address in your notice of interest.

Job Description We are an exciting start-up company founded by proven leaders with repeated success in the technology space. Our newest company is developing a cryptocurrency platform based on an open-source third generation blockchain that we’re creating. Our goal is to set a new standard in security and protection for our end users and community.

We’re looking for a Golang Software Engineer who combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, scalable, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems for the Crypto market place. Reporting directly to the VP of Engineer the Golang Software Engineer makes sure that WON’s services, both internal and externally- visible systems have reliability, rock solid uptime to meet our users’ needs and quick improvement while being responsible for capacity, performance and scalability.

Responsibilities - Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement. - Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews. - Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.

Qualifications Minimum qualifications: - 2+ years of recent server-side experience in Golang - Knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript (JQuery or AngularJS), WebSockets is an advantage - Experience working with MySQL - Experience with Redis, MongoDB or other NoSQL solutions - Understanding of how to build and consume REST APIs - Building modular and scalable code - A sense of humor and thirst for knowledge

Preferred qualifications: - Interest in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems. - Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive. - Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.

Please provide your personal blog and Github address in your notice of interest.

Benefits - Competitive Salary - Awesome bonus - 20 days annual leave - 8 days personal leave - 100% medical, dental and vision insurance - Life insurance - 401(k) and FSA - Free shuttles between Caltrain Menlo Park and office - Gym on site, accessible 24/7 - Located on corner of Marsh Road and 101, by the Dumbarton Bridge exit. - Loads more!

Job Description

Love go? Interested in helping solve infrastructure at cloud-scale? We want to hear from you!

We are looking for a senior engineer to help the Infrastructure team solve complex hardware problems using intelligent software. A perfect candidate is a strong Go software engineer with history in the “world of infrastructure” and configuration management expertise. This engineer will architect the systems, software, and servers that keep our data centers running. You’ll build automation and systems management tools that make it easier to scale our rapidly growing business and deliver cloud infrastructure all around the world.

Job Description

★ IMPORTANT: MUST have 4+ years of working experience as a developer

ABOUT US

★ AngelPad #10 - Spring 2016 ★ All-Star Company

NexGenT is on a mission to provide affordable IT education through an innovative approach that combines the best of online learning with the best of in person learning. The company is striving to spark a change in the educational system, which is currently leaving people in high amounts of debt and not giving them the skills they need to succeed in the workforce.

★ RESPONSIBILITIES

CS Bachelors or Masters degree from a top school (or equivalent experience and talent). A strong background in CS fundamentals is a must for this position.

• Build out a beautiful, scalable, cross-platform IT cloud education platform
• Collaborate and work closely with engineers, UI/UX designers and PMs
• Iterate quickly on new feature requests

★ QUALIFICATIONS

You must be incredibly smart and a fantastic engineer. Bonus points if your friends have ever described you as a "beast" and you have super hard work ethics.

• At least 5 years of working experience as a software engineer.
• At least 1 year of working experience with
  • Managing AWS resources with automation tools
  • RDBMS, preferably MySQL or Aurora on RDS
  • NoSQL Database, preferably DyanmoDB
  • Node.js
  • Microservices or Serverless Architecture.
  • Another language as a back-end engineer.
• Ability to choose right technologies and/or tools.
• Strong knowledge about CS and our stack such as design patterns, how RDBMS works, writing performant code, etc... rather than just being able to write code which just works.
• Services and/or apps built by you and published to somehwere publicly available and/or GitHub profile.

★ Bonus - Experience with React.js - Experience with Serverless Framework - Experience with Terraform - Experience with Golang - Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

★ BENEFITS

Medical, Dental & Vision, Life Health Plans For You and Your Dependents Very Cool Startup Office in Downtown Silicon Valley San Jose Full Gym and Shower On-site Included

★★ Stock Options/Equity with HUGE upside as employee #6-10. Come join the next Silicon Valley Unicorn and help us disrupt tech education once and for all!

Job Description

Devops Engineer Steady helps users make more money - we allow users to discover the opportunities that will increase their earnings and make the most of their available time. More than 90% of all jobs created in the past 10 years have been within the part-time, temporary or independent labor sector. Today either by choice or out of necessity, over 70 million Americans participate in work outside the walls of traditional W2 employment, by 2025 that number is expected to encompass more than half of the U.S. workforce. Steady is on a mission to be the leading advocate of these workers to help them achieve their goals.

Job Description We are looking for a Devops Engineer to help build and operate our delivery pipelines and core platform. The position will work side by side with development, QA, and product in order to successfully deliver high quality software. An ideal candidate is an individual who is either a strong developer who is interested in operations, or strong operations engineer who is interested in software development. Good team skills are essential to this role, as there is a great deal of day-to-day collaboration that takes place as we build and deliver solutions.

Responsibilities • Build and operate CI/CD pipelines using drone and spinnaker • Build and maintain observability and alerting across application and infrastructure • Assist with the operation of a kubernetes cluster • Participate in on-call rotation • Automation of manual tasks using scripting and application development • Identify bottlenecks in the development process and implement solutions • Work with developers to optimize applications for performance and scale • Administer AWS resources and provide guidance on utilization • Ensure we are releasing code safely, securely and frequently • Investigate and adopt new technologies/tools are needs arise

Qualifications • Strong analytical, troubleshooting skills • Good understanding of continuous integration/continuous delivery principles • Knowledge and experience with container technologies. Docker and kubernetes preferred. • Strong linux skills • Understanding of security principles • Experience with at least one programming language (python, ruby, golang, C#), no need to be a superstar coder but you will need to at least be able to write maintainable code that interacts with the AWS and other API's • Good understanding of devops/agile principles • Experience with configuration management/infrastructure as code tooling. Terraform is preferred. • Experience with monitoring and alerting solutions. Prometheus is preferred. • Use of version control systems such as git • Experience working with cloud resources (AWS, Azure, GCP). AWS is preferred • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact at all levels of the organization • Up to date with latest industry patterns and tooling. • Independence and self-motivation while still being able to work with others collaboratively • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, high-energy environment Location: • Office is located in Midtown

Job Description

Here at BitMED we appreciate transparency and creativity. So, let’s try something new. We would like to give you the opportunity to learn more about this role the same way we would get to know you. An application!

We’ll go first…

Why is this position crucial to BitMED?

Our lean team is ready to grow! We are rapidly onboarding 22M members to our platform and that number is growing every day. Our Systems Software Engineer will be responsible for defining and implementing our software standards as they integrate between frontend, backend, data storage, infrastructure and other core system components. By joining our small team, they will be an integral contributor in developing our engineering culture. This person will be a key enabler for lean integration, faster innovation, rapid development, streamlined communication and improved collaboration.

Why does this person want to work at BitMED?

They are excited about bringing blockchain technology to the healthcare community at scale. Joining BitMED is a strategic and advantageous career move for them as they will play a crucial role as a contributor to bringing a global, no-cost healthcare solution to market. They visualize the impact they’ll have in this role and are prepared to offer their expertise towards building a successful new platform that will change the way the world views healthcare.

What will this person do on a day-to-day basis?

The Systems Software Engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing software for a variety of scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing systems (e.g. blockchain). They will design, implement, and debug core components of internal distributed computing services. They will research and implement key technologies (e.g. blockchain), architectures, and standards. They will work with other engineering teams to ensure that services meet scalability, availability, security, and performance goals.

What is this person expected to accomplish within their first 90 days?

This person will assess the status of our current system software and build upon them. They will work with various members of the engineering team to define and implement API standards. During their first 90 days, our Systems Software Engineer will design and implement Protocol APIs for BitMED’s core services and work with various internal and external technical teams on the adoption. By the end of their first 90 days, we expect this person to draft the Protocol API documentation geared towards open-sourcing the API.

What qualities should this person have?

BitMED is looking for a person with the willingness to learn and the ability to contribute right off the bat. They can balance timeliness and business priorities with technical feasibility. They are adamant about solving problems and are a reliable resource for insight and assessment of technical issues. They are able to speak openly and humbly about their failures and mistakes, clearly articulating what happened and how it was addressed. They are passionate about learning, executing and leading by example. They are an open source enthusiast and a best in class developer with a desire to gain knowledge in an emerging market. They are able to think through and anticipate how hackers and others may attempt to subvert or misuse applications.

What experience should this person have?

• 5+ years of overall developer experience
• 2+ years measuring, analyzing, and optimizing performance
• 2+ years developing distributed applications and API integration
• 2+ years developing applications using cloud-based platforms and microservices
• Strong understanding of concurrency, parallelism and distributed systems
• Knowledge of concurrency control, data structures, algorithms, distributed system architectures and networking

What technical skills MUST this person have?

• 1+ years of experience with blockchain security technologies and cryptography knowledge
• Strong systems programming skills
• Experience with all aspects of software development from architecture to deployment and maintenance
• Familiarity with distributed storage systems (HDFS, Amazon S3)
• Fluency in Go (golang) C/C++, Python, shell scripting
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Hands-on developer-level understanding of blockchain technologies including smart contracts, blockchain applications or proof-of-concepts (POCs) using Hyperledger, Ethereum Solidity or other proprietary languages and APIs
• Proven ability to translate requirements from architects and product managers into functional code.
• Knowledge of database technologies including SQL/NoSQL

What skills would we like this person to have?

• Strong passion for technology and applying it to business solutions
• Working understanding of blockchain technologies, cryptocurrency, and financial software
• Experience running a large-scale production system

Your turn!

Job Description

Swish is a world-class development studio whose teams have delivered products for Google, Microsoft, Kik, Nasdaq, Factset, and other major enterprises. The blockchain engineering team at Swish is looking for talented distributed systems engineers to optimize protocol transaction throughput and network reliability for blockchains in development.

Our mission is to bring the promise of a decentralized blockchain-based future to reality for clients.

As a systems engineer, you will work with our blockchain developers, protocol researchers and clients to implement and improve on a byzantine fault tolerant blockchain architecture based on the Tendermint consensus layer, by increasing the throughput, reliability and stability of the network. This role is ideal for engineers who have experience optimizing performance and robustness of distributed systems, and are excited to be working on the cutting edge of high-performance blockchain protocol development.

You might have experience as an Unix/Linux distributed systems engineer optimizing performance and reliability for large-scale cloud servers, and be relatively new to blockchain and distributed consensus protocols. Or you might be a blockchain engineer who is very familiar with distributed consensus protocols like delegated proof-of-stake, and newer to working on low-level performance optimizations. Experience with Tendermint is a huge plus. Either way, you are a great detective and passionate about pushing the performance of your infrastructure to its limits, without compromising on safety or stability.

We are also looking for: Strong communication skills. Experience with performance and load testing.

You should be motivated by a desire to solve the most important problems, obtain unprecedented results, and push your methods to their maximal performance.

Responsibilities * Optimize Tendermint consensus protocol codebase for speed, reliability and performance, including making PRs as needed to the OSS Tendermint project * Troubleshoot reliability issues of distributed systems, e. g. connection losses between Tendermint nodes under heavy load * Monitor the infrastructure and blockchain performance to identify issues * Measure and improve server response times in different conditions and environments * Guide protocol design decisions

Requirements * 1+ years experience with Golang, C or C++ * 4+ years of experience in a systems engineering role * Deep experience with networking and concurrent computing * Deep experience with Unix/Linux systems * Experience with AWS/GCP * Comfortable operating in dynamic environments

Bonus Points * Background in networking or distributed systems * Familiarity with Cosmos / Tendermint * Proficiency in protocol-level blockchain development * Contribution to open source software * Degree in STEM field, especially software engineering or computer science related. * Experience in small start­up environments helping large enterprises. * Experience with a distributed team

About Swish

Launched in February 2013, Swish is a fast-growing business with an innovative working culture and teams spanned across the world with teams in Toronto, San Francisco, Berlin, Auckland, Bruxelles, Medellin, and more.

We create products for successful business using cutting-edge technologies: Blockchain, Machine Learning, and Apps Dev. Working with Swish puts you in contact with prestigious brands, wherever your base is. We are a 100% remote-work company because we believe it is everyone’s choice to live and work the way they prefer.

Work is organized in sprints  - 2 weeks periods to which, as a member of our talent community, you choose to commit. You always have the choice to accept or decline a sprint, or take-on multiple sprints simultaneously.

We let members choose what suits them best depending on their current situation: family, travel, studies, finance. We know life is not linear and we respect the humans behind the screens.

Our work ethic relies on six core values: Transparency, Directness, Meritocracy, Autonomy, Responsibility, Continuous Learning.

Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to our values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and a fun place to work.

Join the future of work today.

Job Description

HotelTonight makes it remarkably easy to book great hotels at amazing rates on your mobile device for tonight, tomorrow and beyond. Our goal is to be the premier and most loved way to book a place to stay and we’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help do just that.

We’re seeking teammates who want to set the standard, question the status quo, and want to keep learning. Part of the greater Product Development team, the Core Services team focuses on the back-end services and infrastructure that support iOS and Android features of the consumer facing app. We are a team of builders; we like to solve problems, take action, and work collaboratively with others to get stuff done.

This is a great opportunity for an engineer who is passionate about the product, thinks of the users, and wants to utilize the latest technologies to deliver industry-changing products. HotelTonight now allows users to book a hotel up to 100 days in advance - an exciting expansion for many reasons, but it’s also a significant change to our backend infrastructure. This means there are some big, challenging projects ahead for you and the rest of the Platform team to tackle.

You’ll have an immediate impact, ensuring that our APIs, infrastructure, and internal tools create a world class user experience and help HotelTonight on its mission to become the only hotel booking app you need on your phone.

Within 1 month, you will

• Familiarize yourself with our development workflow, tooling and tech stack
  
• Learn about the upcoming initiatives and projects you’ll be owning
  
• Release bug fixes and feature improvements to our production environment
  
• Actively participate in our code review process

Within 3 months, you will

• Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, designers, and domain experts to iterate on and improve core business logic and user-facing features
  
• Develop, modify, and maintain our e-commerce platform while optimizing for speed, user experience, and continued 99.99% availability
  
• Support critical production systems as part of our on-call rotation
  
• Leverage instrumentation to identify and diagnose performance bottlenecks
  
• Own the delivery and deployment of the services you build into our containerized production cluster

Within 12 months you'll do

• Lead end-to-end development of mission-critical features
  
• Work on managing and scaling the infrastructure that enables our services to process millions of requests per day
  
• Evaluate and experiment with new technologies and techniques that can be added to our tech stack to solve the trickiest of problems
  
• Work alongside other engineers to define the future of HotelTonight's core services

Why this opportunity is cool

• You’ll be able to directly contribute to and shape the systems that power HotelTonight’s marketplace
  
• You’ll work alongside and be exposed to senior leaders across the company; an opportunity to learn and grow from those around you
  
• You’ll work with other teams across the company on a wide range of projects, ranging from end-user-facing features to behind-the-scenes improvements to our bookings, payments, and notifications platforms
  
• You’ll help implement and refine best practices for deploying, monitoring, alerting, and performance testing critical services

What you will need to be successful in this role

• Extensive experience in software development working as a Backend Engineer
  
• Strong expertise in Ruby and RSpec (or similar) and an interest in other languages (e.g. Golang, Elixir)
  
• Working knowledge of relational databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL
  
• Familiarity with any of the following is a plus: AWS, Ansible, Docker, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Packer, RabbitMQ (or other queueing systems), Terraform, Redis
  
• Experience scaling and maintaining high-traffic, service-oriented production systems
  
• Ability to tackle broad, challenging problems in an analytical, pragmatic way
  
• Empathy for users, teammates, and other stakeholders
  
• Love working as part of a team and continuously strive for self-improvement

Perks & Benefits

• An official Best Places to Work (2 years running!)
  
• The opportunity to define mobile commerce and change the way people book travel
  
• A people-focused organization dedicated to making sure you're challenged, learning, growing, and recognized for all the great work you do
  
• The camaraderie of a driven, agile team that is building something disruptive
  
• Excellent health, dental, vision and 401k plans, and stock options too
  
• Fun stuff - quarterly travel stipend, flexible time off, subsidized cell phone plans and fitness memberships, and the opportunity to spin the HT Roulette wheel to win a spontaneous weekend getaway!

Job Description

We are looking for a sharp midlevel backend engineer who has experience but is hungry to learn more. We want you to help us design and build the next generation of high performance APIs and backend services in Go (the fastest growing language on Github). As a Midlevel Backend Engineer you’ll be an integral member of our engineering team and report to the Director of Backend Engineering.

What you can expect from us

• The opportunity to learn industry best practices on an app that serves millions (microservices, continuous development, caching, asynchronous processing, monitoring, and scaling)
  
• Openness to new approaches and better ways of doing things
  
• Exposure to other teams (product, design, frontend, devops, data)
  
• A collaborative environment that moves fast
  
• Mentorship and coaching from your manager

What we expect from you

• 2-4 years experience in backend or full stack development building APIs
  
• Prior knowledge of Go preferred but not required
  
• Positive, kind, and open to feedback
  
• Ready to hit the ground running with a commit on day one
  
• Beginning to form opinions on best practices and excited to share ideas
  
• Thrive in a collaborative work environment
  
• Have a bias to action
  
• Clear communication and ability to own projects end-to-end, coordinating with other teams as necessary

Career Trajectory

In 9 to 18 months become a senior backend engineer capable of executing large and difficult projects on-time and with minimal guidance.

Roles / Responsibilities

• Write high quality code that is self explanatory, tested, and meets objectives as described in functional specifications.
  
• Collaborate with other backend and client (iOS and Android) engineers and participate in code reviews.
  
• Participate in on-call rotation for after hours support.
  
• Follow established best practices for the backend codebase.
  
• Help analyze performance throughout the stack to optimize the user experience.
  
• Drive projects to completion with minimal guidance.

Objectives in the first three months

• Learn our systems and frameworks and begin implementing minor improvements
  
• Own and deliver a large project start-to-finish.
  
• Review and leave a comment for each backend Pull Request
  
• Participate in the weekly on-call rotation and be able to handle most issues
  
• Plan and estimate your own work in weekly Sprint Planning meetings
  
• Go to a Golang meetup

This is a mid-level position with competitive pay and benefits, plus an awesome working environment. Any company can give you free lunch and happy hours (and we do), but at Hinge we pride ourselves on caring for each other.

About Hinge

We believe the quality of your relationships determines the quality of your life. So when it comes to your most important relationship, it makes sense to take a more thoughtful approach. Hinge provides an alternative to swipe culture by creating smart matches and natural conversations among people who are on the same page. That’s why 75% of our first dates turn into second dates, and why we’re the #1 mobile-first dating app mentioned in the NYTimes Wedding section. Hinge is where the next generation is going when they’re over dating games and ready to find meaningful connections.

What you can expect from us

As individuals, and as a company, we strive to embody these 5 cultural attributes in everything we do:

• Open: Invite and deeply consider challenges and criticism.
  
• Candid: Share your genuine thoughts and opinions directly, in real time.
  
• Kind: Be empathetic, communitarian and trustworthy.
  
• Bold: Proactively identify and pursue opportunity. Think big and don’t be afraid to take calculated risks.
  
• Discerning: Think and act using the appropriate combination of principles, common sense, data and insight.

Please note that being authorized to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment at Hinge.