Nira is looking for an experienced Golang architect/senior developer to join our fast-growing engineering team. You will provide technical expertise across design, implementation and support of the Golang components in our high performance data processing and storage area.
If you’re a creative problem-solver and enjoy a fast-paced work environment, then this is a great opportunity for you.
Lead the design and development of scalable and high performing / high resilience backend services written in Golang.
Solution design/architecture in the general area of stream and graph data processing.
Influence design and implementation of integrations which connect Golang components to other parts of Nira’s platform.
Performance engineering to achieve throughput, resilience and enable scaling.
Code standards, code reviews, technical planning/research, testing/QA.
Assist in scoping, estimating, and planning of projects, particularly from a technical architecture perspective.
Assist in leading a squad of 2-5 engineers collaborating to deliver new feature/function bundles.
Mentor and coach other engineers to grow their skills and experience in Golang.
Bachelors degree or equivalent experience, but quite likely a qualification in a quantitative science (computer science, mathematics, engineering, physics, statistics, economics etc).
You’ve got 3+years of experience in designing, building and maintaining enterprise services specifically written in Golang, and the broader Golang ecosystem (eg package and dependency management). If you’ve made Open Source contributions in Golang, that’s a bonus.
You’ve got 5 years of experience with microservices, large scale distributed data processing, message passing and event streaming, AWS and possibly have a functional knowledge of Python
You have high accountability and ownership of your work, but a willingness to collaborate with others to achieve shared goals.
You have a bias towards action. You love to move fast, are self motivated, and a life-long learner.
You care about working on fast-growing products while iterating and sweating the details.
You’re willing to do whatever it takes, even if this means working outside of your role (backend help frontend, frontend help backend, handle customer support, etc).
You’re able to effectively balance speed/quality/tech debt and make engineering decisions that enable speed and quality results.
You’re a product thinker who cares about the customer.
Work From Anywhere - 100% remote/distributed
Flexible Work Schedule
BYO Kit or Company Allowance
Competitive Salary
Unlimited PTO
Medical and Dental (US only)
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About Live Planet Inc:
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.
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