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We’re looking for a Go developer to join and lead our fully-remote team of engineers. You would be leading a team of Go Engineers, as well as working on open-source FerretDB core functionality and integration tests.
Requirements
3+ years of experience with Go
Experience with PostgreSQL or MongoDB (bonus points for experience with both)
Experience with Docker
Experience leading Engineering Teams, good people management skills
Good English written and verbal language skills sufficient for a fully-remote work environment
Ability to work 40 hours per week from Monday to Friday
Ability to work with others as well as independently
Non-empty GitHub account
Bonus points for…
Experience with backend integration testing
Experience with JavaScript (for working with MongoDB compatibility tests)
Experience with GitHub Actions
Experience contributing to open-source projects and communities
Compensation
$6000-8000 per month (you have to pay your own taxes as an individual/private entrepreneur)
Stock options grant or equivalent
Equipment allowance
20 workdays (4 calendar weeks) of vacation per year
Senior Go Developer FerretDB Remote, EMEA/APAC $48,000 to $100,000 a year
August 2023
8 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
FerretDB is looking for a Senior Go developer to join our fully-remote team. FerretDB is US-based company, building a truly open source replacement for MongoDB, built on top of PostgreSQL. Our aim is to provide an open source MongoDB replacement which users can utilize without having to change anything in their applications. This is a project with major global impact in the database industry.
You would be working on open-source FerretDB core functionality and integration tests.
The following Responsibilities and Skills are rough guidelines on what we are looking for. Please feel free to apply if you think you are the right fit. Ideally, for this position, you are located in either the EMEA or the APAC region.
Requirements
5+ years of experience with Go
Experience with PostgreSQL or MongoDB (bonus points for experience with both)
Experience with Docker
Good English written and verbal language skills sufficient for a fully-remote work environment
Ability to work 40 hours per week from Monday to Friday
Ability to work with others as well as independently
Bonus points for…
Experience with backend integration testing
Experience with JavaScript (for working with MongoDB compatibility tests)
Experience with GitHub Actions
Experience contributing to open-source projects and communities
Non-empty GitHub account
Compensation
$4000-8000 per month (you have to pay your own taxes as an individual/private entrepreneur)
Stock options grant or equivalent
Equipment allowance
20 workdays (4 calendar weeks) of vacation per year
Go Developer X-Team 100% Remote $80,000 to $150,000 a year
November 2021
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Most Important:
Excellent programming skills in Golang and at least one production available service with good throughput under their belt
Track record of built and deployed production quality microservices, with a focus on scalability
Previous experience with the development pipeline from end-to-end of production applications
Knowledge of AWS services such as Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and Simple Queue Service (SQS), EC2, Lambda…
Previous experience with NodeJS
Experience with RESTful API development
Expertise in continuous performance measurement throughout the application’s lifecycle
Distributed request tracing for profiling and monitoring microservices dependant applications
Working understanding of infrastructure as code
Source control and software versioning experience on Git
Former experience working in an Agile environment
Documentation skills
Nice to have:
Understanding of AWS services
Experience working remotely
Familiar/involved with open source projects
Personal:
Independent
Fluent in English, written and spoken
Problem solver
Proactive attitude
Live Energized:
Get the chance to work with big brands like Riot Games (League of Legends), Sony, Fox Broadcasting, Kaplan Inc. (top education company), Coinbase (#1 crypto exchange), BeachBody (#1 fitness company), etc.
Work from anywhere as part of a community of digital nomads.
Live and work in one of our roaming hacker houses (X-Outposts) around the world:
Be part of the most energizing community for developers in the world by participating in our Seasons, a 3-month experience filled with challenges, rewards, RPGs, competitions, and more, all centered around a theme that will inspire and energize you.
Get $2,500 per year (Unleash+) to spend on doing more of what you love and staying energized. Use it on conferences, courses, video games, photography gear, music gear, cooking gear, a gym membership, adventure sports, baby/pet sitting, productivity apps, restaurants, coworking, movie tickets, headphones, etc.
About X-Team
X-Team is a 100% remote international company, originally founded in Melbourne, Australia. We help companies scale their development teams by providing them with extraordinary teams of developers from around the world.
We believe in living a life of freedom that allows you to spend more time getting energized by your passions. We've fostered a unique, active lifestyle and culture around this idea that continues to attract thousands of developers to apply every day. Our community is the most energizing community for developers in the world.
What separates us from our competition is the level of attention and care we give our developers compared to other more "talent"-based solutions. We proactively support them, fund their learning and growth, connect them in roaming hacker houses around the world, and give them a remote environment that motivates and inspires them on a daily basis. While other companies simply place and drop their talent, we foster and cater to our unified teams of developers centered around the same beliefs, values and lifestyle.
We're uniquely situated to help shape how companies grow their businesses in the digital age and aid them in being able to do so properly with the right people. We work with big, innovative brands like Riot Games, Fox Broadcasting, Kaplan Inc., Coinbase, Google, Twitter, Beachbody and more…
Who is X-Team meant for?
Any freelance developers with experience working on high-scale, remote teams and projects with a motivated, proactive attitude and compassionate, team-player heart. If you've worked with freelancing platforms before, that's not what we are. X-Team is a community of all likeminded people, carefully chosen to ensure we are able to create an environment of the most motivated people in the world who come together to unleash their potential. What we've created is truly special and not a faceless platform. X-Team is where developers go to feel truly at home together, while becoming more motivated and energized than they've ever been.
Live Planet, Inc. develops infrastructural technologies to enable producers to deliver next-generation media experiences and services to consumers worldwide. Founded by serial entrepreneur Halsey Minor (CNET, Salesforce, Google Voice….), Live Planet's solutions include:
The LIVE PLANET System: the only end-to-end capture, distribution, and monetization system for immersive video. The LIVE PLANET System makes it easy, practical, and affordable to create and deliver stereoscopic VR and 360° video, whether live or recorded, allowing creators to focus on their productions and applications. (www.LivePlanet.net)
The VIDEOCOIN NETWORK: a decentralized video encoding, storage, and content distribution system that turns all cloud-based video services into an efficient algorithmic market running on a new blockchain with a native protocol token, the VideoCoin (issued by the VideoCoin Development Association Ltd.). The VIDEOCOIN NETWORK will lower costs by deploying unused compute resources, enable a new generation of applications via open APIs and open source-based development, disintermediate media behemoths with peer-to-peer video distribution, and increase privacy with decentralized, end-to-end encryption. (www.VideoCoin.io)
The Opportunity:
You will own the Live Planet VR Camera software development and configuration. You will design, develop and support applications that control camera behavior, collect information from the camera, update software on camera, etc. Also you will own Live Planet VR Camera CI, testing and embedded OS configuration.
We are looking for a self-driven, talented engineer who will focus on the camera's core application software stack and the Linux-based infrastructure around it as well as help be a core member of the Camera team. This is an opportunity to make an impact for the Live Planet Camera System.
We are a fast moving team with a lot of unique knowledge in VR, hardware, video streaming, and distributed compute knowledge. It is a unique chance to grow as a leader and an independent owner of very cool software stack based on modern technologies and processes.
Needed Experiences and Skills:
Working understanding of Linux concepts, specifically Ubuntu based functionality (Systemd, Debian packages, Common Configuration files, etc.)
Experienced Golang engineer with practical experience of HTTP 1/2 (GRPC) micro services development.
Software design skills; in other words you know how to organize multiple of micro services to work together in clean and efficient manner.
Feel comfortable to organize and optimize startup, discovery and networking of OS (operating systems).
General knowledge & understanding of video pipelines & streaming
All in Bits (AiB) aims to create a more transparent and accountable world through open-source software that enables permissionless innovation and borderless transactions. Our technology empowers builders to launch sovereign blockchains and decentralized applications (dApps) that are secure, scalable, and interoperable.
As a core contributor to the thriving Cosmos ecosystem, AiB engineers pioneered the first-ever Proof-of-Stake network and built the core infrastructure that powers Cosmos today including Tendermint Core, Cosmos SDK, and Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC). From creating and funding to engineering and marketing, we prioritize simplicity and minimal production to build technological solutions that endure.
AiB is committed to upholding core Cosmos values of transparency, accountability, and decentralization. That’s why we support the creation of the Decentralists DAO for the Cosmos Hub to move all operations on-chain, starting with engineering. By establishing the Decentralists Engineering Team (DET), we aim to advance core components of the Cosmos tech stack and encourage open dialogue, decision-making, and innovation.
How we work:
We focus on talent rather than location to hire the very best person for every role. Open communication is vital, and we use the best tools to collaborate efficiently. Everyone has the autonomy to create their best work, which we reward with unlimited growth potential. AiB is remote-first, and to support your working life, we offer carefully considered benefits and hold regular team and company-wide meetings to encourage collaboration and interaction between teams.
You have flexibility to work the hours best suited to your lifestyle; as long as you deliver consistent quality work, the sky's the limit! You will be required to be available from 8 am - 10 am PST some days when we bring our people together to contribute to our Townhall sessions. We value diversity, inclusivity, honesty, and accountability. AiB is a place where talent thrives and you'll have the opportunity to carve out an exciting career trajectory best suited to your unique skills and interests.
About the position:
AiB's Developer Experience (DevX) team is seeking a talented and motivated software engineer with experience in designing and developing backend systems in Go. You will be working within the DevX team to define requirements, iterate on software solutions, and deliver useful developer APIs for people interested in building Gno ecosystem. We’re looking for a motivated and versatile engineer who understands developer ergonomics and has great written communication skills. Your work will be hugely impactful, as your APIs will be used by a rapidly growing, international audience of developers.
What you will be doing:
Design and build highly available and scalable backend systems, microservices and public facing APIs
Ensure the code you write is high quality, readable, maintainable with minimal technical debt
Review PRs from other members and share knowledge to contribute to increasing the team's total know-how
Have an active role in architectural decisions and design
We are looking for someone who has/is:
At least 6 years of experience as a Backend engineer with at least 4 years hands on experience in Golang.
Significant experience writing Golang with a good understanding of its best practices, concurrency primitives, go/ * packages, and reflection.
Strong skills designing high quality public APIs and Go packages.
Strong in computer science fundamentals including network, storage, OS, data structures, transpilers/compilers, etc.
Strong in designing and building backend systems in Golang, microservices, containers and container orchestration.
Strong knowledge in HTTP protocol, protobuf and gRPC.
Nice to have:
Experience building with Tendermint Core and Gno
Interest in topics such as proof-of-stake, consensus algorithms, decentralized exchanges, public-key cryptography, etc.
Experience in building smart contracts
Experience in Ansible, Terraform
Some experience in front-end development, mainly VueJS, ReactJS
Ever wondered if your employer is monitoring your work computer?
At Fleet, we think it's time device management went open source.
Why should you join us?
Work from anywhere with good internet. (We're 100% remote. No office. No commute.) Everyone works remote, but you don't feel remote. There is no "headquarters". You are free to travel and move.
Fleet can offer you a competitive salary, significant equity, and an independent, outsider-friendly culture. Work with helpful, kind, and motivated people who know what they're doing.
At Fleet, we value focus, iteration, and meaningful results– not 60 hour work weeks. We are non-judgmental and laser-focused on growing the company.
Work closely with experienced, well-funded founders and a great team, including the people who created osquery (osquery.io) and Sails (sailsjs.com). We care about openness and transparency.
Work computers can be private and safe. Help make endpoint monitoring less intrusive and more transparent.
Protect the production servers and employee laptops of Earth's largest companies. Work on a product used by lots of people who care about what you do.
Fleet is growing quickly, with significant revenue from Fortune 1000 customers. You will have lots of opportunities to make decisions, learn, and try new things.
Responsibilities
As the first backend engineering role on the interface team, this position will provide significant opportunity for growth into a leadership role either in management or as an individual contributor. Unlock the potential of Fleet's platform by building new APIs, integrations, and features. Collaborate closely with frontend engineers to implement and leverage new backend capabilities.
Fleet’s server is written in Go with go-kit and Fleet's UI is written in React. Deployments range from single servers to over 100,000 clients connected to horizontally scaled Fleet servers, handling tens of thousands of requests per minute. We aim to keep Fleet’s deployment as simple as possible to ease self-hosted deployment. MySQL and Redis are used for persistence and caching.
Design and implement new features and APIs with Go in Fleet’s 100% source-available codebase.
Work with Fleet’s product team, customers, and the wider open-source community to improve IT and security workflows.
Work closely with frontend engineers to implement new API features.
Support customers and users using software you built at organizations you’ve heard of.
Are you our new teammate?
Mid-level to senior engineering experience (4+ years) with backend or full-stack software engineering.
Experience building scalable, production quality servers.
Experience with Redis and/or SQL databases. (Particularly MySQL or MariaDB.)
Experience building, deploying, and maintaining REST APIs.
Your work hours have significant overlap with Americas time zones.
You have great written and oral communication skills, especially in English.
You are competent with source control in Git. You use issue trackers and other worthwhile processes to get more meaningful work done.
You can mentor other developers and do code reviews. Maybe you managed open source projects before; maybe you collaborated closely with more junior engineers at work. You understand the importance of promoting a positive engineering culture.
Bonus: Experience programming with Go and go-kit.
Bonus: Experience programming with React.
Bonus: Experience working with Mobile Device Management (MDM) APIs.
Bonus: Experience deploying/monitoring/managing containers with Docker/K8s.
Platform Engineer Quantum Metric Remote (United States) $125,000 to $165,000 a year
January 2022
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
🐲Quantum Metric
We are obsessed with helping businesses deliver better digital products and experiences for their customers. Quantum Metric is paving the way for Continuous Product Design, a brand new methodology that is helping enterprises embrace digital transformation. Major enterprises across industries ranging from quick service restaurants to airlines and everything in between are reaping the benefits. The result: Teams agree on priorities, build products customers love, and innovate with speed and confidence.
😎Our Culture
Our number one goal at QM is happy people, happy culture. We offer numerous committees and resource groups, including the Women’s Resource Group, Parent’s ERG, and our DEI committee, to name a few. We bring the culture of a small knit startup to a rapidly expanding company, which has tripled its size in just 2 years. Our executives and managers come from an impressive range of backgrounds and are passionate about enabling their team to find their passion. Many of our employees work remotely, though we also have satellite offices in Chicago, Denver, and Colorado Springs.
🚀 Who are we?
Quantum Metric helps organizations build better digital products faster. Our platform for Continuous Product Design gives business and technical teams a single version of truth that’s fast, quantified, and grounded on what customers actually experience. The result: Teams agree on priorities, build products customers love, and innovate with speed and confidence.
🔧 What will you do?
The Platform Services team is responsible for creating and managing the platforms that power our products. For us, that means providing our teams with reliable, resilient, and performant data ingestion / data access systems. We ingest massive amounts of data, process it, and make it available for further use as quickly as possible. As a member of our team, you will have an opportunity to work on all aspects of these systems, typically using a combination of Go, Kubernetes, and hosted Google Cloud Services for your daily tasks.
While you'll occasionally work on the APIs and data pipelines that power our user-facing systems, you'll spend most of your time building the platforms that make the API and data pipeline work possible for other teams without our direct involvement. You'll work regularly with operations and other platform teams to continually enhance the stability of our systems, and you'll also work alongside our feature and data science teams to enhance our service offerings.
🐉 Who are you?
You love developing software and your passion for building with code is palpable. You love spending time creating efficient, performant, and reliable data processing systems. You are particularly fond of building and using distributed systems to solve problems at scale. You love building applications and tooling on top of Go and Kubernetes, and you are familiar with how to make your applications observable for production operations.
While you’re a developer with a passion for writing good code, you also enjoy brainstorming sessions with your peers and product owners to discover the best solution to a problem. You see the importance of providing input and considering the points-of-view of those around you. At the end of the day, you enjoy being part of a healthy team culture that practices mutual respect.
🏅 Skills
You are skilled with Go and have some experience with JavaScript, Python, or C++.
You subscribe to the DevOps mindset and are comfortable with observability tooling.
You have built applications on top of Kubernetes.
You have familiarity with databases (relational and/or NoSQL).
Proficiency with JavaScript is another plus, as part of our current stack is still powered by Node.js.
You’re curious and self-motivated, so you’re probably really familiar with a variety of different tech. We understand the value of learning continuously and expanding out of your comfort zone.
💡 Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Code School Certification or equivalent
Experience with Go and Kubernetes.
Familiarity with JavaScript.
Experience working in a cloud environment.
Compensation: $125,000-$165,000
⭐️ Bonus
Experience with Google Cloud, specifically GKE and BigQuery
Experience with message queues (Kafka, Puslar, or Google Cloud PubSub) for building event-driven systems
Experience with NoSQL and/or relational databases
🏆 Perks and Benefits
This will be the best group that you ever work with! We support one another through challenges and win as a team. Your hard work will be well rewarded. Most importantly, you'll be strapped to a technology rocket ship bound for greatness! Your success at Quantum Metric will be a milestone in your career.
Group benefits
Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance (99% Medical base plan paid by the Company)
Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
Telehealth options
Voluntary Life & AD&D, STD, LTD
Healthy Rewards – Discount Programs
401k and Options / Equity
Time off (Paid Vacation, 9 Sick days, Holidays)
11 company holidays
3 weeks (120 hours) accrued vacation
Sick leave (according to state mandated allocation)
Parental/Adoption Leave
In addition to our more traditional benefits, we also offer generous perks, a flexible work environment, and numerous resources for professional development and team building.
Promotional opportunities
Rewards and recognitions programs
Robust onboarding and training program
One-time stipend for work at home employees
Flexible work environments
Employee Discount Program (Perks at Work)
Employee Referral Program
Lead Referral Program
Latest MacBook Pro and awesome swag delivered to your door
Supportive and collaborative culture
RECHARGE PROGRAM (after 3 years, disconnect for 3 weeks, no email/slack)
About Quantum Metric
As the pioneer in Continuous Product Design, Quantum Metric helps organizations put customers at the heart of everything they do. The Quantum Metric platform empowers a customer-centric culture, using quantified empathy to align business and technical teams to effectively prioritize customers needs based on business impact.
Today, Quantum Metric captures insights from 20 percent of the world’s internet users, supporting nationally recognized brands in ecommerce and retail, travel, financial services and telecommunications. 6 of our customers come from the top 25 Fortune 500 Companies. Our customer retention rate is 97%.
In January of 2021, Quantum Metric secured its place as the first tech unicorn of the year with an above $1 billion valuation and a $200 million Series B funding round, and we are using those funds to accelerate our product and people growth. Quantum Metric has been recognized as an excellent place to work by the Inc 5000 and the Deloitte 500.
If your background matches the above role and you’re interested in joining a team of people with exceptional potential from diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences, we want to hear from you.
Senior Software Engineer (Blockchain/Backend) Metrika Remote (United States, Canada, Europe, United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland) $60,000 to $140,000 a year
July 2021
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
We are building the world's premier Operational Intelligence platform for Blockchain. We strive to develop our systems by observing the best practices of our craft; this means writing testable, performant, easy to maintain and constantly improving code, while enabling our company to iterate our product fast and stay ahead.
These are the early days of our platform, and as a Senior Backend Engineer you will be able to contribute, influence and take ownership in significant parts of our systems. Our goal is to build a very high performance platform, capable of analyzing thousands of transactions across multiple blockchain networks in real-time.
If you are a Senior Software Engineer, with a solid understanding of distributed systems, passion for your work and would love to work with a geographically distributed team, join us!
What this position is all about:
Designing and implementing crawlers, software agents and accompanying backend services that feed our Operational Intelligence platform with hundreds of metrics pertaining to the performance and health of Blockchain networks. You will be expected to demonstrate capacity to code (or pick up competence in) Python or Golang.
Working under a Scrum or Kanban framework and releasing product increments on a continuous basis.
Owning your work. This means writing unit tests, ensuring proper containerization, observability/instrumentation and documentation for your code.
Understanding, participating and contributing to the company goals, regardless of your role. Metrika is a small company with a very inclusive culture. We are looking for people that share those values with us.
Please note: Our Engineering team is predominantly based in Europe. This position is currently open to those resident and currently able to work in the European Economic Area (EU, Norway, Liechtenstein), Switzerland, the UK as well the eastern United States/Canada (UTC-4/UTC-5 timezone)
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Metrika Inc. is an Equal Opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion._
Job requirements
You will need:
A bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Masters or higher degrees preferred.
Considerable experience in building production-grade, distributed, cloud native, asynchronous/event-based microservices-based or serverless systems, using Python, Golang, Java/C# or Scala. (At Metrika we're predominantly using Python and Golang for our services at this time.)
Excellent understanding of TDD, agile development methodology and version control.
The ability to function autonomously to solve problems, and deliver working software. Our geographic distribution requires people that can work well on their own.
The ability to communicate well with your team, both interactively and asynchronously, and that of being a positive, constructive team member.
You'll probably be a great fit if you have:
Expert knowledge of Python or Golang.
Experience with blockchain systems.
Experience with key-value, document, time series or other non-relational databases.
Experience with CI/CD.
Experience with Docker/Kubernetes or Serverless environments.
Experience with SQS/SNS, Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ or other brokers.
Experience with public cloud providers, e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean etc.
Senior Golang Developer WEX Inc Remote (United States) $120,000 to $140,000 a year
April 2021
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
We’re the Transact Global (TAG) team at WEX.
TAG is an open loop payment processing platform built from the ground up by an agile team. It is cloud-native and built primarily with Go, MongoDB, and Terraform. The TAG team is pushing the frontiers of payments technology and is in the process of continuing to operationalize and scale the product.
Our team holds itself to a high-standard and we collaborate closely with one another to ensure strong, reliable and effective relationships all while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. We own our results and we take pride of ownership in everything we do.
We need help!
Changing the world isn’t easy, and we have a lot of work ahead of us. From new product features, to automation, to creating and supporting microservices, we’ve got more work than we can handle and we’re looking for great people to come along for the ride.
Who are you?
Culturally, you’re
A highly motivated engineer who loves working on small, high performing teams.
Collaborative, a solid communicator, and work well with your team and stakeholders.
Someone who cares deeply for team results, checks your ego at the door, and takes pride in owning results.
A mentor who is capable at guiding the technical development of less experienced developers at the functional, component architectural levels.
A professional who can advocate strongly for positions and still be 100% behind team decisions even if they don’t go your way.
Are comfortable balancing the need to move fast with the realities of working in a highly regulated space like payments.
Technically, you
Are a top-notch coder.
Pick up new technology and switch between tech stacks with a minimum of fuss.
Are comfortable working on front-end web code, back end services, data stores, and infrastructure systems.
Are a solid architect/designer/engineer.
Have experience writing modern software deployed in the cloud.
Are comfortable with encryption schemes, modern APIs, and front-end frameworks.
Have worked on agile teams to deliver software iteratively.
At a minimum, you
Have a BS in an engineering field OR can make us feel intensely confident that you don’t need one .
Have 10+ years of development experience.
Have 5+ years of experience developing internal/external web services.
A demonstrable working understanding of at least one modern web framework.
A demonstrable working understanding of NoSQL datastores.
It would be nice if you
Can show us one or more passion projects or open-source work you have contributed to in your own time.
Have experience with Golang, MongoDB, AWS, and Terraform.
Have demonstrable experience with systems engineering and automation.
PowerSpike is a media & technology company focused on building the most compelling and streamlined destination for activating sponsorships within gaming communities. PowerSpike collaborates with 30,000+ gaming and esports influencers to execute premium, authentic influencer marketing campaigns. PowerSpike’s influencer network reaches over 150M viewers every month and has already grown over 1000% in 2020. The 5-year-old company is backed by Techstars, Cox Enterprises, the Sixers Innovation Lab, the Dorm Room Fund, and Ocean Azul Partners.
What we’re building
PowerSpike is building the world’s first Influencer Exchange.
Like a traditional ad exchange, where buyers can place bids for ads in real-time, PowerSpike’s technology instead enables brands to bid on influencers. We’re taking the simple and streamlined experience of programmatic advertising, and combining it with the authenticity of influencer marketing to deliver instantly scalable influencer campaigns. Think Google Ads meets influencers. Currently focused on the gaming space, our technology enables brands like Intuit Quickbooks and Activision Blizzard to launch influencer campaigns across our network of over 30,000+ Twitch streamers, just like they'd make a media buy.
Your work will directly help influencers pursue their dreams and assist some of the biggest brands in the world in streamlining their influencer marketing efforts.
What we need
We’re looking for a dedicated, passionate, innovative, and security-oriented Backend Web Developer to work on bringing PowerSpike’s databases and API’s to life.
Reporting directly to the VP of Development, you will be responsible for building bug-free data solutions which will deliver information to influencers, brands and advertisers to help them make critical marketing decisions for their spends. If the words RPC, distributed servers, and scalable architecture excite you - then we want to talk.
We value learning, creativity, radical candor, positivity and collaboration - and as one of the first people at PowerSpike, we’re looking for someone who can help us define our culture and processes for years to come. Simply put, we believe in hiring A+ people, giving them clarity in what success means, and then supporting them to their fullest potential.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Managing, maintaining and upgrading Powerspike’s internal API
Developing and maintaining microservices
Develop scalable APIs for both internal and public consumption
Implement, maintain and improve scalable databases
Design and ensure data security and integrity
Develop reusable and sustainable code
REQUIREMENTS
2-5+ years experience in backend development
Server side language (Go/Python preferred)
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Familiarity with AWS and Google Cloud
Database language (MySQL preferred)
Experience with distributed systems and microservice architecture
Experience with machine learning
Ability to adapt to new situations and learn new skills/languages
Knowledge of Git
BONUS POINTS IF
You’ve worked at a startup or attempted to launch your own startup before (even if it failed)
You’re a gamer, streamer, or fan of live streaming platforms like Twitch/Mixer/YouTube Live
You’ve worked on ad exchanges or advertising/influencer related technology in the past
BENEFITS
Competitive compensation
Stock options
Generous PTO
Medical Insurance
Early access to new products, games and services emerging in the space
Opportunity to be on the ground floor of one of the fastest growing startups in the gaming ecosystem
PowerSpike, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.