Backend Golang Engineer Wallet Connect Remote / Berlin, Germany $85,000 to $100,000 a year
December 2021
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
WalletConnect is the open-source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps. Started four years ago, our mission is to make web3 accessible to everyone. Every month, millions of people use WalletConnect in over 200 integrations.
We’re looking for a backend golang engineer to join our team to build and scale our network. To help grow web3, we recently launched WalletConnect 2.0 with new features, including multi-chain support, a decentralized back-end, faster connections, and 10x performance and scalability. You will help us expand and scale our backend messaging infrastructure.
You will be responsible for building Golang messaging services. A main challenge is growing our services to scale for our millions of users across billions of websocket connections every month, as well as ensuring security and resiliency.
To help with your role, you will have the support of our devops team to deploy and manage our infrastructure, will work closely with our protocol and SDK teams, and have exposure to the full WalletConnect stack.
The ideal candidate is immersed in the best practices of golang at scale, messaging systems and Websockets.
Responsibilities:
Building a microservice architecture based on Golang with scaling in mind
Work with protocols such as Websockets, gRPC
Help with monitoring by creating metrics with Prometheus and Grafana
Develop unit and integration tests for core business logic
Work closely with our devops team to manage and scale our infrastructure
Must have:
3+ years professional experience in software development at least one modern programming language, including Golang, TypeScript, C++, Java, or Rust.
At least 1 year of professional Golang experience.
Experience using Postgres, AWS, with demonstrable experience with systems engineering and automation.
You have experience with network programming or distributed systems development
Experience working on products at scale
Nice to have:
Experience working on systems optimisation
Experience with k8s or Nomad a plus
Desire to learn more about Blockchain technologies or experience with PoS systems.
Familiarity with operations/SRE and the concept of infrastructure as code
Websocket experience
Benefits
What WalletConnect offers:
Fully remote position with flexible timezone (CET/EST preferred)
As a part of Amadeus, travel audience unit is the world’s leading data-driven travel advertising platform. travel audience harnesses the power of home-grown tech, combined with cutting-edge machine learning practices to connect the leading performance-oriented travel brands with the biggest network of publishers, reaching Billions of travellers globally.
Our aim is to optimize advertising across the entire traveller journey, identify and create new audiences, and increase our partners reach, relevance and booking volumes.
We are searching for a (Senior) Backend Engineer to join our team. You will be combining your passion for technology and have a direct impact on the lives of millions of travellers, while also helping travel audience in becoming the global leader in data-driven advertising for the entire travel industry.
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What you'll do:**
You'll be part of the team responsible for design, development, maintenance and operation of the programmatic advertisement and ad delivery components of our system: a set of Go applications, some of them, soft real-time;
You'll design & implement new features, write unit and integration tests, tune monitoring and alerting;
You'll work closely with Data Scientists in experimentation and optimisation of the business logic, leveraging machine learning and mathematical models;
You'll actively contribute to improving quality & managing technical debt;
You'll have the opportunity to participate in managing the infrastructure, capacity planning & optimising costs;
You'll participate in architecture and design discussions, actively influencing the evolution of the architecture to meet new business requirements;
You'll always be on a quest to look for better tools and solutions that match the new requirements better.
Why join us?
As part of our team, you will work in a highly motivated environment, with equal opportunities, flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes. You’ll have a lot of freedom to contribute your own ideas and implement them. We offer you:
The opportunity to drive business growth and truly having an impact on the business;
The opportunity of taking an impactful role in a fast-paced industry where you handle new problems every day;
The opportunity to work on a system that already handles many thousands of requests per second (per instance) and processes terabytes of data per day - and you will have the opportunity to help to push it further;
The chance to experience working on a soft real-time system - designed to reliably respond in tens of milliseconds.
Requirements
About you:
You have gained significant experience with software development, writing idiomatic Go code, and are familiar with the tooling of the Go programming language;
You worked with at least 5 of these technologies: Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Google Cloud Platform or other cloud computing environments,Prometheus, Grafana, protobuf, gRPC, Kafka, Aerospike or other key-value or document databases, PostgreSQL or other SQL databases, microservice architecture;
Work experience in production environments with high-traffic and/or high uptimes (HA, 24/7), or strong proficiency with performance optimization it's a plus;
It's a big advantage if you are experienced with programmatic advertisement (eg. Google RTB or OpenRTB) or real-time/soft real-time environments;
You are a quick learner, you believe in continuous improvement and you are good at analytical problem solving;
You can communicate well and are a first-class team player;
You can speak, write and express yourself in English – our company’s working language – in a professional context.
We are awaiting your application and looking forward to starting our journey together!
Backend Developer Blocksize Capital Frankfurt, Germany €50,000 to €60,000 a year
September 2020
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About Blocksize Capital
Blocksize Capital makes the DLT- and Blockchain-based asset market accessible for financial institutions. Our software solution delegates all tasks and challenges related to managing Digital Assets, ranging from trading and reporting to managing an entire portfolio. Our clients consist of asset managers, family offices and institutional investors.
About the job
As a Backend Developer you will be joining our development team focusing on extending and maintaining our backend infrastructure. Your main tasks will include to consolidate and interface with different blockchains, exchanges and third-party data providers to provide a unified API to be used by our clients or the in-house-developed trading frontend. You will help us to continuously improve our robust and low-latency infrastructure capable of handling large amounts of data while remaining highly scalable under different demands.
Our tech stack
Go, gRPC
Postgresql
Kubernetes, Docker
Prometheus, Grafana
GCP
Your profile
You are a passionate backend software developer with experience in the area of modern software / system architectures
You have successfully completed a degree in computer science, business informatics, business information systems or equivalent
You are interested in financial concepts and the realm of Blockchain / DLT
You share our love for Go
Requirements
You have profound experience in the development and consumption of REST & WebSocket APIs, preferably using Go
You are fluent in different microservice design/communication patterns
You are comfortable in testing and documenting infrastructure and APIs
You are able to perform basic CRUD operations using SQL
Nice to Have
You have had experience with DevOps tooling, such as: Shell scripting, CI/CD (Gitlab), Kubernetes
You know your way around cloud provider offerings (GCP)
You are proficient in complex SQL-queries
What we’re offering
Become part of a young and agile team
Take an interest in topics that are really fun, interesting and challenging
Leave your footprint, because your ideas and solutions are important to us!
The result counts! We pursue a flexible working time and workplace model (home office)
Excellent infrastructure of your choice (Apple, BYOD, Coursera, Gym, etc.)
If we’ve got you interested, apply now to learn more about Blocksize Capital and the role!
Advanced Blockchain AG are looking for an experienced Back-End Developer to join our core development team. You’ll be taking on new and ongoing projects with industry leading clients looking to be the first to implement and benefit from blockchain technology.

What we offer:
An environment that embraces freedom and autonomy and values team
spirit and open communication. We encourage you to put forward your
thoughts and ideas.
An open plan office in the heart of Berlin.
The opportunity to contribute to cutting edge projects in a new and exciting
industry with the potential to positively reshape our world.
An international team of DLT pioneers from 12 different countries.
Flexible working hours.
Responsibilities:
Back-end development of our high-loaded web applications.
Working with our Blockchain API.
Rest API development.
Micro services development with Docker containerisation.
Working and maintaining different types of DB.
Collaboration and architecture planning with the team and CTO on a high-
performance back-end infrastructure.
Mentoring your team.
Main requirements:
5+ years in back-end development
Practical experience with MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Postgres
Strong knowledge of Go and experience with C++, Python
Join our Core Services team as Senior DevOps Engineer!
What you will do:
Drive the company-wide adoption of the cloud platform products and work closely on its implementation with the delivery teams;
Provide guidance on performance optimisation, help with the analysis and engage as the subject matter expert;
Participate in the analysis of new requirements and develop solutions and services to support the development teams.
Help to shape and execute the technical roadmap and strategy for the next generation of application features and cloud infrastructure in Google Cloud.
Develop systems automation and provisioning frameworks for multiple applications and environments.
Mentor, support and coach regarding tools, concepts and best practices.
Why join us?
As part of our team, you will work in a highly motivated environment, with equal opportunities, flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes. You’ll have a lot of freedom to contribute your own ideas and implement them.
The opportunity to drive business growth and truly having an impact on the business;
A fast-paced industry where you handle new problems every day;
An environment where you are encouraged to research, explore and try new ways of doing things;
An open and dynamic culture that supports great work-life balance, while being part of Amadeus, the biggest travel tech company in the world.
Requirements
You are whom we are looking for if:
You are familiar with distributed systems, their complexity and benefits, and also the trade-offs involved;
You like to code and automate as much as possible in an environment with Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm Charts and Golang applications;
You understand different database technologies and messaging queue patterns and you know your way around BigQuery, Postgres, Redis, Aerospike, Kafka, Google pub/sub;
You like to monitor everything and Prometheus and Grafana are your best palls. If you have used them in Federated setups, please let us know;
You have worked in a production Kubernetes environment and you understand the concepts around overlay networks and Kubernetes Operators. Multi-region setup is our next big challenge!
You are in the frontline of technology innovation and you love to transfer your knowledge, experience and best practices to other Engineers;
You have experience or interest in working with Google data solutions like Dataflow, Airflow or Apache Beam.
We are awaiting your application and looking forward to starting our journey together!
Fraugster is a payment security company with the goal of eliminating fraud and increasing our customers’ profits. Over the last years we’ve invented an artificial intelligence technology that combines human-like accuracy with machine scalability. This ability lets us foresee fraudulent attacks before they actually happen and gives us a distinct competitive advantage over every other player in the payment security space.
We’re already working with some of the most well-known payment and e-commerce companies in the world. Notable clients include companies like Ingenico and SIX Payments. Fraugster is backed by top-tier investors and is currently managing billions of Euros for its clients.
Job Description:
We make decisions based on data, it’s the core of our business, and it’s providing insights into the effectiveness of our product and features. We believe data powers creativity and productivity, and that a robust, reliable and scalable infrastructure is needed to support this.
Our Observability team is operating the solutions that make gaining insights from data possible with monitoring, logging, metrics and other telemetry tools. The team is responsible for simplifying the process of building data and metrics-driven products and features. This is a high impact, high visibility role that directly affects the experiences of all our engineers.
As we take on more services and responsibilities, we're looking to add another member to the team.
What you will be doing:
Design, build, and operate the observability stack of large-scale data infrastructure systems from the early stage
Improve the stack, dive into new technologies and figure out how best to monitor them
Provide easy ways to understand the state of the services at a given point in time, including the ability to trace requests across multiple services
Work with development teams in an advisory capacity to optimize usage of monitoring and logging tools: what to log, measure and alert, which metrics and events are important and why through guidance, documentation and internal discussion
Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge, including Open-Source projects
Mentor and guide junior engineers as the team grows
You’re a good fit if some of the below applies to you:
You are a great teammate who can work effectively as part of a cross-functional team
You have strong analytical, problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
You are a good communicator in English, both verbal and written
You are knowledgeable about a variety of infrastructure and development topics
You have worked in an environment that runs multiple services handling a large number of transactions, owned by different teams
You have the skills to help a development team to perform complex debugging, but you also know when to let the team figure things out on their own
You enjoy thinking about how to make life simpler for other engineers
The experience we are looking for:
Designing, implementing and debugging large-scale data infrastructure systems, and identifying their performance bottlenecks
Understanding of long-term impacts of key design decisions and handling failure scenarios
Experience in Go is a big plus, but not strictly required and experience with a similar backend language would suffice. Our team can teach you and get you up to speed
Monitoring and operating open source software in production at scale e.g. Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker
Operating telemetry tools, e.g. the ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Istio and others
Not everything listed is required and not everything required is listed. If you have skills that are not listed but you think will contribute to your performance let us know!
What we offer:
The chance to be be part of a growing team of with plenty of room to leave your mark and impact company strategy and growth
Fun, creative and focused teams committed to learning and problem-solving through collaboration
Competitive salary and, if required, visa sponsorship and a relocation package
Office located in the heart of Berlin with teammates from around the world
Time to work on projects that are not in the scope of the sprint, standing desks, team events and a weekly company dinner
An environment in which you can balance great work with a great life
We value ownership and innovation, and we build our teams with that in mind. We want each team to be responsible and accountable for what they ship. We also don't want to reinvent the wheel every time, so we try to get alignment in terms of practices and technologies. Our philosophy to achieve this is relying on excellent tooling and automation over policies and processes.
We know that diverse teams are strong teams, and welcome those with alternative identities, backgrounds, and experiences from all over the world. We’re a team of technically curious problem solvers. Come and join us.
We are looking forward to receiving your application!