Golang Hack Capital Jobs in United Kingdom Paying 150,000 USD a Year

Job Description

Lemonaid Health is a mission driven technology startup committed to providing quality and affordable healthcare to patients nationwide. We build long term relationships with patients by offering a broad range of primary care services to help them lead happier, healthier lives. We’re backed by large strategic and healthcare investors like OTV and Health Velocity Capital.

Lemonaid Health comprises an entrepreneurial team of over 100 people who live each day by our 7 Guiding Principles including celebrating wow, setting a high bar, leading in innovation, and championing equality. Interested in transforming healthcare? Apply today and join our growing team of Lemons!

The Engineering team at Lemonaid Health is a collaborative team who enjoy working together on big goals. We have a culture that values truth seekers and speakers, where respect for one another is fundamental. We’re looking for experienced full stack engineers to build and design world-class software with us. This is an opportunity to join a mission driven team at a company transforming the healthcare industry.

This position is located in the SF Bay Area and reports to the Chief Technology Officer.

What you’ll do

• First and foremost, developing software that will WOW our users and help us scale.
• Collaborate with the team to brainstorm and create new exciting products for our patients.
• Work with product management, design and other engineers to determine the best way to implement solutions.
• Make informed decisions quickly and take ownership of services and applications at scale.
• Be a persistent, creative problem ­solver.
• Remain cool and effective in a crisis.
• Deliver high quality testable and maintainable code.
• Passionate about great technologies, especially open source.
• Understand business needs and know how to create the tools to manage them
• Help and mentor other team members.

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer building consumer facing applications
• Experience with full-stack web development in languages like Golang or PHP and a modern Javascript framework
• Either strong OOP or Functional Programming and modeling skills.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Experience building consumer-facing, complex web systems that have been successfully launched.
• Experience working in an environment covered by PCI, HIPAA or other high standard of security and privacy would be a bonus
• Communicate professionally, tactfully, and kindly while maintaining a high level of confidentiality at all times

Why we think you’ll be excited about us:

At Lemonaid Health, we strive to be the best place to work. We have ingrained a culture of giving and receiving feedback, and providing a challenging, yet fun, work environment.

We are proud to offer competitive medical benefits in addition to 401(k) matching, generous PTO, and more!

Our Lemons live each day by our Guiding Principles:

• Aim for “wow” in everything we do.

• Be driven by our mission to increase access to healthcare.

• Lead in innovation - act first.

• Communicate clearly using the correct communication medium.

• Set a high bar for ourselves and each other - provide and take feedback.

• Be proactive - never say “that’s just how we always do it”.

• Champion equality - proactively be anti-discriminatory.

VISA Sponsorship We are not able to support VISA sponsorship at this time

Compensation London, United Kingdom: 65,000-75,000GBP/year San Francisco, USA: 160,000-180,000USD/year

Location The location is onsite on our London and San Francisco offices, flexible work is allowed (2-3 days/week)

Job Description

About Us

Brightcove is the leading online video platform that powers the video for many of the UK and the world’s largest media companies including BBC Worldwide, UKTV, Channel 4, Ford, Viacom, ESPN, and The New York Times.

As a Software Engineer, you will help deliver a service that touches millions of people around the world by serving over a billion video streams each month.

Our Team

The ‘Dynamic Delivery’ team work on a highly scalable, multi-region set of microservices that are responsible for delivering video to millions of consumers around the world.

We’re a small team, so you’ll have a high degree of autonomy and input into design decisions. We also offer a competitive salary, flexible working environment and encourage learning and career development.

Our Technology

The Dynamic Delivery platform has been developed from scratch over the past two years and is almost 100% written in Go, with functional tests written in Ruby/Cucumber and deployed using containers onto public cloud infrastructure.

You

• Have 2+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Have experience with deploying software to cloud services
• Understand the reasons for and best practices around testing and are familiar with TDD and BDD
• Have a good understanding of HTTP
• Have experience taking ownership of a service from design to deployment
• Can take into account scaling, cost and performance considerations when designing a service
• Stay abreast of developments and best practices within the technologies you use

You - Bonus Points

• Have written Golang in production
• Have used and deployed containerised software
• Have worked with CDNs
• Have experience with video streaming technologies (HLS / MPEG DASH / Microsoft Smooth Streaming).
• Have an understanding of H.264 and AAC
• Have an understanding of video container formats, specifically MP4 (and fMP4/ISOBMFF) and MPEG TS.
• Have an understanding of common DRM technologies, specifically Widevine Modular, Playready and Fairplay.

Location

Lacon House is situated in Central London, nestled between world-leading media companies and the capital's thriving tech scene.

The nearest Underground stations are Holborn and Russell Square.