Lead Backend Engineer JustWatch Berlin, Germany €80,000 to €110,000 a year
March 2023
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Make independent decisions, prioritize what to build, and execute. We want you to own the whole toolchain, discuss our business needs with department heads and empower others to build the next generation of our marketing tools!
We deliver what we set out to deliver, and you will drive our future growth. To make this happen JustWatch allows for your maximal autonomy and our leadership is no-nonsense, deeply technical, and involved in their fields. Use this to transform your team into a more efficient structure. Propose new tools, hire people and give raises. Lastly, be hands-on without asking when your team needs support, and show them that you care.
This is why our tech punches far above its weight class:
Software is not a beauty contest for us - we prefer battle proven, easy to understand technologies. The team ensures stability by focusing on the most beneficial tests and monitoring we can create - not by ticking boxes. We iterate over our existing tools to improve them over time - yet we are also not afraid of big jumps. When it comes to the infrastructure we need, we build it specific to our needs; we don't leave that to someone else.
In short:
We write our software in Go (since the beginning)
We keep our data in Postgres databases
All services are hosted in our Kubernetes cluster
We use Google Cloud Services for our cloud needs
What we need from you
You solve complicated problems with simple solutions.
Technology is a means to an end for you, not an end in itself.
"Not invented here" Syndrom, is something you are aware of and prevent.
You distain bureaucracy and needles overheads
and you feel the same about meetings
This position is remote, but you have to life in a time zone with +/-3 hours around CET
or you are willing to relocate accordingly
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)
Herdius is a Berlin based Blockchain Company. We are working on building homomorphic distributed private key generation which then is turned into value bearing products in different sectors. Currently we are very close to open beta-testing for the Herdius-Crypto-Wallet.
What we focus on on the blockchain field specifically is interoperability and trading. When connecting different chains on the key level, users can eliminate communication channels, bridges and complex systems. In other words, users can do cross-exchange and chain token swaps very conveniently and profitably for the user due to the cross-exchange arbitrage opportunities. The broader vision is one day to replace API auth keys with public-private key cryptography in order to provide layered access to user data.
All this makes for a crypto eco system and hedge fund that pays interest on all cryptocurrencies (that right now are unfortunately somewhat unusable and just laying around on wallets).
About the role:

Herdius is seeking for a Gopher Guru - an experienced Senior Golang Backend-Developer - to join our team of smart and visionary individuals. Experience in Blockchain is not necessary but a big plus.
We do not look at this role as another standard job but rather as great opportunity to build something really meaningful und amazing. Become a member of our great collective of top nodge engineers and people - altogether working to create cutting edge tech for the masses.
Besides the Herdius HQ in Berlin our Dev-Team is working mostly remote on different time-zones - so this vacancy surely also is location agnostic.
We would expect you to contribute at least 20hrs per week for part-time but joining full time is possible, too.


Cool things you will work on:
Implementation and design of Herdius’ consensus algorithm and p2p order routing protocol.
Lots of work around trading and high volume data handling and transfer.
Design and implementation of a low-latency, high-availability, and performant algorithmic hedge fund and exchange order book.
Integration of the Herdius distributed private key generation protocol.
Constant performance testing and improvement of our architecture.
Working on new financial products that have not been seen in the crypto world, setting up the base-layer infrastructure of a trading system and hedge fund
Skills & requirements
Strong proficiency & experience working with Golang
3+ years of experience as a backend engineer, language agnostic but Go, React, NodeJS, Vue.JS, Scala, Angular, Rust preferred
Experience and passion working with distributed systems and networking
Strong interest in blockchains and related technologies
Passion for delivering quality, secure code with loads of testing
User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
Interest in privacy and cryptography, trading and financial service
Understanding fundamental design principles behind various consensus algorithms
Understanding differences between dPOS, DAGs, Plasma, BFT, aBFT, etc.
Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Interview Process
Your education or professional experience at the end of the day does not matter to us. It all comes down to us being convinced by your skills and drive! 
We mainly look for people who are passionate about projects they work on and have the drive to see a project through. Our code is mostly done in Golang with some Solidity for connectivity with Ethereum.
How to apply:
Send anything that reflects on your knowledge and experience in the field. Besides a CV/LinkedIn-profile you can send links of your GitHub/Stack Overflow/Portfolio/ or something awesome you've built that you’re simply proud of.
As (Senior) Software Engineer (m/f/d) you will be involved in every layer of the technology, including the robot control system, the video streaming system, our machine learning side as well as the cloud infrastructure. In addition, you will be essential in defining the foundations of our product and culture.
The profile:
You have relevant work experience in fast moving environments like a start-up, technology companies, or from technical university programs
You have got a strong knowledge in C or C++ programming, proficient Linux experience and you are always curious to learn new technologies
Fluent verbal and written English language skills
Affinity for autonomous mobility technology
You think big and like to build something, you are solution oriented and like to get stuff done
You enjoy working in a fast-moving environment
At the same time you are a true team player and we will enjoy working with you
Nice to have’s:
Video and audio encoding (e.g. H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC) and multimedia systems with deep understanding of codecs for optimisations
Background in mobile networks (e.g. 4G / LTE) over the top services, real time services
General networking (e.g. VPNs, TCP/IP), packet routing, network performance tuning
Robot Operating System (ROS)
Experience with embedded systems and the Nvidia SDK
HW/SW integration into vehicles (e.g. functional safety, CAN, etc.)
We obviously don't expect anyone to check all these nice to have's!
Our offering:
Change how people move in big urban areas while making car ownership obsolete
A competitive compensation package & unlimited vacation
Involvement in one of the most exciting tech projects in Europe
An open-minded and fun work environment
Be surrounded by a highly committed and very experienced team
Relocation services to Berlin - It doesn’t matter where you currently live!
Note: Ree provides an equal opportunity to all candidates. All candidates will be considered for employment regardless of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, marital status, medical condition, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer Tendermint San Francisco, United States / Berlin, Germany / Toronto $100,000 to $150,000 a year
October 2018
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
We're looking for someone who has:
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience with open source contributions.
- Written structured, high-quality programs and scripts for automation.
- Significant experience writing Golang or the ability and desire to become proficient in new languages.
- Experience developing, releasing, and maintaining production software and infrastructure tools like Elastic stack, InfluxDB stack, DataDog, PagerDuty, or VictorOps.
- Built solutions with a broad set of technologies in and around cloud solutions (AWS EC2, ECS, Route53, DynamoDB, RDS, Lambda, Docker, - Google Container Engine, Kubernetes or Docker Swarm).
- Implemented continuous deployment before (Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis, Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
- Experience with SDLC tools (Git, GitHub, Atlassian Stash/Bitbucket, GitLab, JIRA).
- Experience with QA/SIT tools (Selenium).
- Experience in Linux System administration including package management, network management, and security management.
- Familiarity with open source P2P networking protocols.
- Experience working in an agile development environment.
- The ability to take ownership and see initiatives through.
- Exceptional communication skills.
- Experience working with distributed teams.
What your primary responsibilities will be:
- Help scale software systems with automation, in an effort to improve reliability, velocity, and simplicity.
- Create, maintain, and improve the tooling for continuous integration and continuous delivery.
- Build and maintain tooling for deploying, monitoring, and maintaining clusters of Tendermint nodes on our testnets and mainnets.
- Build and maintain tooling to help shorten feedback cycles within teams and projects.
- Plan, build, and maintain public facing services in association with business goals.
- Build tools to measure and monitor availability, latency and overall system health.
Backend Engineer, Search SoundCloud Berlin, Germany €58,000 to €110,000 a year
August 2018
28 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
What's next in music happens on SoundCloud first. As the worlds largest open audio platform, SoundCloud is powered by a connected community of creators, listeners and curators who share, discover and influence whats new, now and next in music and audio. We enrich people's lives through the shared love of sound and we are looking for a backend engineer to join our Search Team in Berlin.
As backend engineers at SoundCloud, we build the infrastructure for products that music listeners and creators love. Our work often involves large-scale distributed systems, parallel computing, and data science. We actively improve our tools and processes to support collaboration and productivity. We cultivate an environment where we can all learn and grow. For more,read about engineering at SoundCloud.
You have solid backend engineering skills and are motivated to work in these areas. You have experience with operations in a large production environment. You're proactive and have experience collaborating closely with other teams. You enjoy crafting simple solutions to complex engineering problems and are able to communicate them. You're an independent thinker, but thrive in a tight-knit team. You're committed to the products you work on.
If this describes you, we'd love to chat.
Prior experience with microservices, building infrastructure automation and continuous delivery are all highly valued. Go is the main language we use, so you are either already proficient in it or excited to learn. Experience in technologies such as Elasticsearch, Spark, Kafka, and data processing pipelines is a plus.
Diversity at SoundCloud:
SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us build a social platform and global community where anyone can create, discover, and share sounds. We acknowledge the challenges in our industry, and strive to develop an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute.