Swarm is a system of peer-to-peer networked nodes for a decentralised storage and communication service.
Swarm could shape the future towards a self-sovereign global society and permissionless open markets. On Swarm, applications run autonomously yet securely in a planetary-scale deployment and execution environment.
Bee is a Swarm client implemented in Go. Itâs the basic building block for the Swarm Network.
Bee provides low-level constructs for file storage, feeds, key-value stores and untraceable communication, through solid, well-tested code delivered in an agile manner.
Key technologies are Go, libp2p, protobuf, leveldb, and go-ethereum, as well as various cryptographic libraries.
Your role:
Development of the reference Swarm implementation in Go aka Bee
Developing domain-specific knowledge and expertise in the Swarm incentive layer implementation
Bringing code up to spec
Delivering well-tested code
Conducting thorough code reviews to your peers
Your profile:
Strong understanding of distributed systems.
Familiarity with blockchain principles and considerations for application design is a plus.
Experience with libp2p
You donât need to Google SOLID principles
You can express yourself fluently in English, both verbally and in writing
You are available around the CET timezone
You manage your own time effectively and respect time constraints
You like to take the initiative and can work remotely
We appreciate:
Familiarity with Go-Ethereum
Knowledge of Solidity
A passionate open-source contributor
Acquaintance with cryptographic concepts
Knowledge of Kubernetes, Grafana, Jaeger and OpenTracing
Swarm offers/Team perks:
An open, flat and transparent work environment
100% remote-friendly
Flexible working hours
We care about our swarm: Incentives through BZZ, Swarmâs token
Should you be interested in the position, please send your CV and GitHub repo to talent@ethswarm.org.
Reports to: Senior Director of Engineering
Location: Remote US and Canada OnlyÂ
Compensation Range: $140,000 to $190,000 base, plus bonus and equity
What We Do:Â
Founded in 2015 as a fully remote company by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress was built on a simple premise: to force hackers to earn every inch of their access.Â
Todayâs cyber-attacks arenât limited to large organizations with the security tools that can ward off threats. Hackers don't discriminate and will find a way to penetrate any vulnerability in any size business, which is why Huntress focuses on protecting those small to midsize businesses that make up the backbone of our economy.
Huntress stops hidden threats that sneak past preventive security tools by utilizing our award-winning security platform and expert human threat hunters through dynamic products including Managed EDR, MDR for Microsoft 365, and Managed Security Awareness Training.
Join the hunt and help us stop hackers in their tracks!
What Youâll Do:Â
* Youâll lead an engineering team that builds and supports our macOS Agent
* Youâll work closely with the teamâs product manager, designer, and cybersecurity expert to design, build, validate, and support both agent and web-based applications
* Youâll grow and develop a team of smart and diverse problem solvers who are innovative, skilled, and passionate about delivering for our customers
* As part of the engineering leadership team, youâll help develop better ways for us to workÂ
At Huntress, we work with low walls between disciplines because we believe good ideas are everywhere and the best products come from teams who work together to deeply understand our customers, experiment, and validate our products.
Who You Are:
* Youâve been a software engineer and understand modern cloud-based architectures
* You still have the ability to jump in and punch and review code, but you also exhibit an ability to think tactically and strategically about a solution and the right way to build it
* You enjoy thinking about products as well as engineering and have a track record of developing and iterating on SaaS products
* You have managed technical teams and know how to coach and develop both individuals and a team
Responsibilities:Â
* Deliver awesome products with speed and agility for our customers that are maintainable, reliable, and resilientÂ
* Recruit, hire, coach, and mentor a diverse team of engineers who are technically skilled, collaborative, and creative
* Identify and remove impediments for your team
* Continuously improve your teamâs performance and health
* Contribute to improving the Engineering departmentâs best practices, processes, and standards
* Lead with transparency, candidly challenge assumptions, and exhibit integrity above all else
What You Bring To The Team:Â Â
* 3+ years experience in engineering leadership building SaaS products in a modern SaaS environment
* Experience with macOS internals and development preferred
* Skilled at building teams and performance management
* Experience with different software development methodologies such as plan-build-ship, shape-up, scrum, and kanban
* Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills
* Ability to grasp new software architecture and technology quickly
* Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships with product, development teams, leadership, senior management, and internal and external stakeholders to help minimize silos and drive teamwork across teams
What We Offer:
* 100% remote work environment - since our founding in 2015*
* Generous paid time off policy including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
* 12 weeks paid parental leave
* Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plansÂ
* 401(k) with 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution
* Life and Disability insurance plans
* Stock options for all full-time employeesÂ
* One-time $500 stipend to build/upgrade home office
* Annual allowance for education and professional development assistanceÂ
* $75 USD/month digital reimbursement
* Access to both Udemy and BetterUp platforms for coaching, personal, and professional growth
Huntress is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every single member of our team is valued, has a voice, and is empowered to come to work every day just as they are.
We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.Â
We do discriminate against hackers who try to exploit small businesses.
Accommodations:
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to accommodations@huntresslabs.com. Please note non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response. Â
If you have any questions about your personal data privacy at Huntress, please visit our privacy page.
Reports to: Engineering Manager
Location: Remote, US and Canada only
Compensation Range: $135,000 to $170,000 base plus bonus and equityÂ
What We Do:Â
Founded in 2015 as a fully remote company by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress was built on a simple premise: to force hackers to earn every inch of their access.Â
Todayâs cyber-attacks arenât limited to large organizations with the security tools that can ward off threats. Hackers don't discriminate and will find a way to penetrate any vulnerability in any size business, which is why Huntress focuses on protecting those small to midsize businesses that make up the backbone of our economy.
Huntress stops hidden threats that sneak past preventive security tools by utilizing our award winning security platform and expert human threat hunters through dynamic products including Managed EDR, MDR for Microsoft 365, and Managed Security Awareness Training.
Join the hunt and help us stop hackers in their tracks!
What Youâll Do:Â
The Huntress team is looking for a senior engineer who has experience writing software that interfaces with the Windows Operating System at a low level. This engineer will be responsible for developing applications that communicate from our customersâ Windows systems to our web portal to provide our threat operations team with critical threat-hunting information.
Responsibilities:Â
* Build features for a Windows application that interfaces with various low-level windows APIs on Windows to collect data and send it to our SaaS application
* Integrate our endpoint application with our backend SaaS web applicationâs REST APIs for managing state and providing information that is used for threat hunting, paying particular attention to low resource usage on Windows hosts
* Collaborate with QA and DevOps to use our end-to-end testing framework to test our agent and its interactions with our web portal
Rewards:
* The opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology
* Training in a field that is fast-growing and in demand
* A work environment with a high bar, low stress, and no politics. We are software engineers, not coders.
* We leverage our peers to help fill our gaps and come up with the right solutions.
* We succeed or fail together as a team and value making others successful. Your manager will work hard to create a successful path forward for you in your career
What You Bring To The Team:Â Â
* Cyber security experience or a willingness to learn
* Able to communicate highly technical concepts clearly and concisely
* 5+ years of programming in Go
* 5+ years of experience writing low-level software that interfaces tightly with the underlying operating system
* Experience with Windows internals, Win32API, WMI, Powershell, and drivers is a bonus.
* Experience writing software for distributed architecture
* Ability to coach or mentor junior engineers
What We Offer:Â
* 100% remote work environment - since our founding in 2015
* Generous paid time off policy including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
* 12 weeks paid parental leave
* Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plansÂ
* 401(k) with 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution
* Life and Disability insurance plans
* Stock options for all full-time employeesÂ
* One-time $500 stipend to build/upgrade home office
* Annual allowance for education and professional development assistanceÂ
* $75 USD/month digital reimbursement
* Access to both Udemy and BetterUp platforms for coaching, personal, and professional growth
Huntress is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every single member of our team is valued, has a voice, and is empowered to come to work every day just as they are.
We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.Â
We do discriminate against hackers who try to exploit small businesses.
Accommodations:
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to accommodations@huntresslabs.com. Please note non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response. Â
If you have any questions about your personal data privacy at Huntress, please visit our privacy page.
Swarm is a system of peer-to-peer networked nodes for a decentralised storage and communication service.
Swarm could shape the future towards a self-sovereign global society and permissionless open markets. On Swarm, applications run autonomously yet securely in a planetary-scale deployment and execution environment.
Bee is a Swarm client implemented in Go. Itâs the basic building block for the Swarm Network.
Bee provides low level constructs for file storage, feeds, key-value stores and untraceable communication, through solid, well-tested code delivered in an agile manner.
Key technologies are Go, libp2p, protobuf, leveldb, and go-ethereum, as well as various cryptographic libraries.
Your role:
Take architectural decisions for our p2p distributed network
Suggest improvement solutions for our codebase and the testing process
Development of the reference Swarm implementation in Go aka Bee
Developing domain-specific knowledge and expertise in the Swarm incentive layer implementation
Bringing code up to spec
Delivering well-tested code
Conducting thorough code reviews to your peers
Your profile:
You have 5+ years of experience in a similar position & at least 3 years with GoLang
You have experience in working on large-scale distributed systems
Familiarity with infrastructure tools (we use k8s, helm)
You follow SOLID principles
You like to work in a fast paced environment
Strong sense of ownership and responsibility
You manage your own time effectively and respect time constraints
You like to work remotely
You are available around the CET timezone
You can express yourself fluently in English, both verbally and in writing
We appreciate:
You have a solid grasp of blockchain principles and application design considerations
Experience with libp2p
You are familiar with go-ethereum
Acquaintance with cryptographic concepts
Knowledge of monitoring tools (we use Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger and OpenTracing)
Knowledge of Solidity
A passionate open-source contributor
We offer/Team perks:
An open, flat and transparent work environment
100% remote friendly
Flexible working hours
We care about our swarm: Incentives through BZZ, our token
Should you be interested in the position, please send your CV to talent@ethswarm.org
Go Full Stack Engineer SwitftComply United States (Remote) $145,000 to $175,000 a year
July 2023
7 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Go Full Stack Engineer
Bring your full self to work.
SwiftComply strives to create an environment for all to participate, be authentic, and feel valued.
We are committed to building an equitable workplace that moves our company and industry forward and know there is work to be done in advancing diversity and inclusion.
About the role
As a Go Full Stack Engineer, you will help develop our software and be empowered to take on tasks as part of a small and growing team.
In this role, you will:
Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, scalable, and secure software solutions using Go Language, microservices, Postgres database, and Google Cloud Platform
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement new features and functionality that meet the needs of our customers
Develop and maintain APIs that integrate with third-party systems and applications
Write clean, maintainable, and testable code that follows best practices and coding standards
Ensure the quality and stability of the software through testing, debugging, and troubleshooting
Participate in code reviews and contribute to the continuous improvement of the development process
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the team
Work independently and effectively manage time and priorities to meet deadlines and deliverables
Collaborate with a remote team in a highly distributed and self-managed environment
Who you are
We are seeking a new member to join our Engineering team! This might be a great team for you if you thrive in a setting that you can:
Be self-motivated and work independently as part of a small team, proactively consulting with the team for tasks as opposed to waiting to be assigned one
Use your communication/interpersonal skills to collaborate with a remote team
Demonstrate excellent problem-solving and analytical skills to build creative solutions
Manage priorities and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment to build a software that impacts the future of water and environment
Experiences that could help you succeed in this role include:
5+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on building enterprise, multi-tenant solutions
Experience building complex applications using Go Language, microservices, Postgres database, and Google Cloud Platform services; strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing
Solid understanding of software development principles, including agile methodologies, version control, and automated testing
Experience designing and optimizing databases applications that can scale and maintain security
Experience developing and maintaining APIs that integrate with third-party systems and applications
Familiarity with front-end technologies such as React, Angular, or Vue.js
Experience writing clean, maintainable, and testable code that follows best practices and coding standards
Experience ensuring the quality and stability of the software through testing, debugging, and troubleshooting
Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement new features and functionality that meet the needs of customers
Experience providing technical guidance and mentorship to the team
Bonus points:
Experience in integration and platform development
Experience managing the exchange of data between various systems and applications
Excited about making a positive impact with SwiftComply but donât feel you meet 100% of the list? If youâre excited about working with us, weâd still love to hear from you!
Benefits
Healthcare - we offer medical, dental, and vision insurance with an HSA option
Life insurance - we offer free life insurance plan for you
401(k) - we provide pre-tax/roth options and the company makes a contribution equal to 3% of your compensation, regardless of your contribution amount
Remote - we work remotely and provide a $1000 home office setup stipend
Time off - we offer 31 paid days off (PTO, holidays, birthday, etc; 1 additional day off provided for each year youâre with the company) and encourage you to take time for vacation, wellness day, etc, for a positive work-life balance
Parental leave - we want you to enjoy some time with your new addition to the family with paid leave
Compensation
$145-175k/yr
*To provide equitable pay, we benchmark our compensation. This is the data provided at the time we created this job description. We will re-evaluate the range at the time of offer and thus this range is subject to change.
Please note: Offer is contingent upon a successful completion of a background check. And we are unable to sponsor visas at this time; you must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident authorized to work in the US.
About SwiftComply
SwiftComply is an award-winning early-stage technology company with a mission to protect human health and the environment with an all-in-one cloud-based software that empowers local governments to easily manage their water, wastewater, and stormwater compliance programs.
We were founded in 2016 by our founder and CEO, Mick OâDwyer. As a water & wastewater engineer at Dublin City Council (Ireland), Mick saw first hand how manual, paper-based and inefficient compliance programs can be. He created SwiftComply to fix this problem with modern, collaborative technology.
Today, SwiftComply supports over 400+ utilities that deliver water service to 50+ million citizens - and weâre expanding the team to make an even bigger impact!
Software Engineer Bankable Barcelona / Remote (Spain, Portugal, France) âŹ45,000 to âŹ65,000 a year
July 2023
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About Bankable
We are on a mission to enable our customers to become âBankableâ by providing a one-stop solution for embedded finance. We work with the worldâs leading FinTech\'s, corporates and financial institutions, providing them an API based platform which allows them to access financial products and embed them in their own offerings. At Bankable, weâre building a truly global solution for payments, cards and working capital which our customers access through a single API integration platform. Partnering with Bankable allows customers to bypass the legacy banking system to build new, profitable revenue streams from financial services, whilst relying on the highest levels of security, resiliency, and scalability. Our people are hungry for success, humble in collaborating, and are experts in their field.
Your Responsibilities
* Collaborate to build and scale our core systems and Marketplace.
* Create and enhance software based on a tech stack composed by Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL, AWS EKS (Amazon Kubernetes managed service), GitHub Actions, Git, Docker and a bunch of other cool stuff.
* Help to keep up an Agile environment, focused on delivery to meet our customers expectations.
* Design simple solutions to complex business problems, ensuring availability and performance.
* Improve the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), with automation at heart, boosting continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices and tools. Our Ideal Candidate
* Passionate on web technologies and deeply knowledgeable in APIs creation.
* A programmer with experience in software engineering professional practices like design patterns, SOLID principles, clean code and Domain Driven Design (DDD).
* Keen to tackle the challenges of distributed architectures based on microservices.
* Research and experiment with new technologies that are the best fit for the problem you are trying to solve. We are a startup, we aim to use the right tool to do the job.
* Excited to have the opportunity to improve your code quality and problem solving skills on a daily basis.
Perks & Benefits
We are fully remote and flexible, in consequence we are providing the fluidity and tools, including home office equipment, to help you do the job. We have offices in London and in Barcelona,however we are a distributed organisation which keeps a mixed and elastic approach in terms of working on site and remotely. Besides a competitive annual salary and part remote work, other perks are:
* A MacBook Pro.
* Private health insurance for the nuclear household paid by the company.
* Home office equipment budget.
* Training budget.
* One (1) additional holiday on your birthday.
* Tax relief plan for meals, kindergarten and public transportation (RetribuciĂłn flexible).
Go Blockchain Developer Fitsoftware OU Remote (Canada) / Remote (Asia) / Remote (Europe) $96,000 to $120,000 a year
June 2023
5 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
âł Full-time permanent contract signed directly with our client
đŠ 100% Remotely with flexible working hours
âïž Unlimited paid time off
đ The international company providing financial services for Web3
Looking to make an impact and grow within a leading organization? Do you want your input to be heard and taken into consideration? Apply and create a digital future with us!
We are hiring for our client who helps crypto companies achieve their token liquidity goals while generating attractive, safer returns for liquidity providers.
We are looking for a Backend Engineer to design and implement foundational components of our stack, spanning infrastructure and backend services, while also having responsibilities to collaborate with the wider engineering team to improve our overall architecture and code quality.
Requirements:
4+ years of experience in backend engineering.
Significant experience with Go (preferred), Rust, or C++.
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience building SDKs, APIs, or otherwise building and maintaining a production system at scale.
Experience with AWS, GCP or similar cloud providers.
Desire to keep up with modern best practices in software development and crypto.
Nice to have:
Understanding of the Ethereum Virtual Machine.
Experience using Go for production systems.
Proficiency in database optimization.
Responsibilities:
Developing our core software stack from the design stage all the way to production-ready implementations. Primarily in Go..
Designing, building, maintaining, testing, and improving our node software and coordinating agents to power our distributed networks.
Implementing and optimizing CI/CD to improve build and test times. Detecting and improving performance and stability for microservices.
Improving the design of peerâs architecture through thoughtful, professionally communicated feedback.
Writing performant SDKs and documentations enabling clients to interact with the Web3 APIs.
Contributing to open-source projects and playing a role in building out the crypto ecosystem at large.
Why work with us?
100% remotely.
Equity allocations.
Unlimited PTO.
Referral bonus: 1 000 USD if we sign an engineer based on your recommendation.
Senior Backend Engineer Spread Remote (Europe) âŹ70,000 to âŹ100,000 a year
June 2023
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
As our Senior Backend Software Engineer (f/m/d), you'll play a critical role in developing our key functionalities and achieving an engineer-like understanding of our cutting-edge software.
Our team is made up of dedicated individuals who are passionate about product development from start to finish. From design to deployment and beyond, we're committed to creating intelligent solutions that will transform the way engineers approach their work.
The ideal candidate for this role isn't just another cog in the machine - they're a creative thinker who's always eager to explore new ideas and challenge the status quo. With the confidence to exchange ideas freely and the tenacity to tackle problems head-on, you'll be an essential part of our team as we continue to push the boundaries of what's possible. So what are you waiting for? Let's revolutionize the world of engineering together!
YOUR MISSION â #SPREADYOURMISSION
Work hand in hand with the Frontend Engineers, Architects, and Product Owner in order to create outstanding services;
Develop high-class Backend code to further enrich our Microservice Architecture;
Further improve our solution and codebase by making implementation decisions and realizing them;
Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code that complies with SOLID principles;
Implement user stories in an agile environment;
Be in charge of medium to large features and tasks from technical design through to release;
Help set goals and technical direction while ensuring that they align with the goals of the business;
Create and maintain tools to interact with the software and data;
Work closely with our product team to understand our customers' needs;
Make sure the product code matches the documentation and testing (including reviews, Unit, integration, and end-to-end testing);
Understand and leverage new backend technology and know-how to empower our product.
YOUR EXPERIENCE â #SPREADYOURKNOWHOW
MUST HAVES:
7+ years of experience working professionally with SQL and NoSQL databases (key/value, graph, and relational databases, transactions) *years of experience is a guideline. Ultimately your work speaks for itself and can be explored in the technical challenge*
Profound experience with Golang or Rust;
Experience working with microservice architecture (JWT, orchestration vs choreography, load balancing, service discovery, REST/gRPC communication protocols);
Affinity and experience with Agile Methodologies (scrum and/or Kanban);
Experience working on complex projects in teams as well as leading teams;
Good communication skills and fluency in English.
NICE TO HAVES:
Affinity and experience with DevOps (Kubernetes or Docker Swarm, load balancing, cloud computing, CI/CD);
Experience working professionally with the latest C++ standards;
Scientific knowledge or interest related to fields we research (3D programming and rendering, statistics, numerical methods, mathematical modeling in physics, etc...);.
*Seniority level is based on performance in the technical interviews and challenges. All employees have the opportunity to elevate at the rate of skill progression*
WHY US?
We care about your future:
Unlimited contract;
Ownership through equity/virtual shares;
Optional Private Pension Scheme
We care about your development:
The annual budget for professional Learning & Development, subsidized Urban Sports membership, bike leasing scheme, and more;
Be part of a competent, ambitious, and fun team that inspires us to perform our best, and grow both professionally and personally.
We care about respect:
Flat organization;
Solution-focused 360-degree communication and feedback.
We care about serious FUN!
Engaging and simply extraordinary events such as #SpreadOut company outings, #SPREADOrigins, where we celebrate SPREADâs cultural diversity, #SpreadTheNews, #Lunch&Learn and so much more!
30 days of vacation.
We care about innovation:
Monthly time budget of 1 day dedicated to breaking out of daily tasks â facilitated with the Design Thinking Methodology.
All the tech you need (cool tech stack, fully configured Pro laptop, monitors, gadgets, etc.)
A commitment to our Vision to change how products are created and maintained, helping a whole industry to become more sustainable!
This position offers you the opportunity to join a fast-growing technology organization that is redefining productivity paradigms in the software engineering industry. Thanks to our flexible, distributed model of global operation and the high caliber of our experts, we have enjoyed triple digit growth over the past five years, creating amazing career opportunities for our people.
If you want to accelerate your career working with like-minded subject matter experts, solving interesting problems, and building the products of tomorrow, this opportunity is for you.
The impact you'll make:
As a Golang Engineer, you will be responsible for contributing to the development of different platforms and applications; and collaborating with cross-functional teams to define new solutions.
Develop new features for a large-scale software platform and applications;
Keep the best practices and patterns in backend design and development;
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship solutions;
Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
Technology stack:
Go to write their application code
Cassandra for most persistent data storage
Kafka for our asynchronous message queue
Envoy Proxy for RPC
Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run their services
AWS for most of their infrastructure
React for internal web dashboards
What you'll bring to us:
+6 years of experience in Backend development
Working experience with Golang.
Experience in other languages such as Java 8/11, Kotlin, or Node.js is nice to have;
Proficiency in databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL);
Experience in Continuous Integration and Delivery Tools: Kafka, Docker, - Kubernetes, Git, Jenkins;
Familiarity with API creation and RESTful services;
Excellent English communication skills.
Some of the benefits youâll enjoy working with us:
The chance to join an organization with triple-digit growth that is changing the paradigm on how software products are built.
The opportunity to form part of an amazing, multicultural community of tech experts.
A highly competitive compensation package.
A flexible and remote working environment.
Medical insurance.
An annual allowance for training purposes and in-company English lessons.
Special day gifts.
Come and join our #ParserCommunity.
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Senior Backend Engineer Toggl Remote âŹ50,000 to âŹ70,000 a year
April 2023
7 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to be a part of one of our cross-functional teams to help us shape the future of the time tracking industry and deliver real value to our customers with both new and improved features.
The salary for this position is âŹ70,000 annually.
You can work from anywhere in the world.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be taking ownership of one or more domains of our product and will work closely with other Backend and Frontend engineers using cutting-edge open source frameworks to highly-available RESTful services and back-end systems.
The main technologies you will be working with are Go, PostgreSQL and Google Cloud Infrastructure. Even though you can work whenever you want on your tasks, our team meetings can happen between 11:00 to 15:00 UTC. You need to be willing and available to attend these meetings when they happen
Your main responsibilities will be:
developing, scaling and maintaining some of our backend services including the API, reports and other infrastructure services that manage our product and logistics worldwide
working with multiple teams day to day to bring more value to Togglâs users, covering customer-facing web and native applications and public APIs
designing, breaking down, and completing projects of a medium to large scope with high-level productivity
looking for technical problems of existing system/product without guidance and offering solutions
leading projects with a small group of people, such as hosting weekly meetings, communicating with other partners and stakeholders
About the Team
We are a global team of 130+ awesome people working from over 40 countries around the globe. We hire globally, you work locallyâin the heart of London, a beach outside of SĂŁo Paulo, or a quiet village near Florence, the choice is yours. Every few months we travel to meet up somewhere in the world and spend some quality time together. We place a huge amount of trust in our people, and we measure the outcomes rather than the work itself. Our values fuel our results.
We would love to hear from you if you strive to solve technical problems of high scope and complexity and have long-standing experience programming in Go.
In particular, we are looking for:
Strong backend engineering experience in Go;
Significant professional experience with distributed systems, PostgreSQL, and Google Cloud Infrastructure;
Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation);
Experience with performance and optimisation problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems;
Ability to work cross-teams and improve cross-functional relationships which will facilitate ongoing projects;
Eagerness to make contributions to improve the engineering team. For example, activities like interviewing, or mentoring;
Mentor and grow junior engineers;
Ability to give on-point and actionable feedback to peers;
Effective communication skills: regularly achieve consensus with peers and clear status updates;
Collaborate across the company to define, design, build and improve our product;
Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, is required for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment;
Bonus points for:
Having full-stack experience;
Experience with data warehouse and analytics systems
Experiences with Kubernetes at scale
Experience with system architecture at scale
Benefits
Freedom to choose when and how much you workâwe only measure results
24 days of paid time off a year, plus your local holidays
In-person meetups for team-building (expenses covered)
4-6 weeks paid sabbatical (depending on tenure)
Laptop budget up to 2,500⏠and it renews every 3 years
âŹ2,000 budget to set up your home office and an additional âŹ300 every year after 3 years of tenure
âŹ250 per month for co-working space membership and/or internet service at home
âŹ4,000 per year contribution to use for training, workshops, and conferences
âŹ2,000 per year contribution for any equipment or services to improve and/or maintain your physical and mental health
Support for buying tools you need for doing your best work (even eyeglasses if you need a new pair)