Golang Highlight Jobs in United Kingdom

Job Description

Who we are

Highlight is a startup that sees market research not for what it is, but what it should be. Our platform centers on a modernized equal exchange; brands offer free samples of high-quality goods, and our testers offer their fully-engaged and invested feedback. At its core, Highlight combines in-depth, quality research with scalable quantity to eliminate waste in the product innovation cycle — we help brands find actionable insights so they can reach their goals. With backing from Dorm Room Fund, Rough Draft Ventures, The Sixers Innovation Fund, and Harris Blitzer Sports and Entertainment, Highlight is ready to bring better market research to more brands than ever before and cultivate consumer communities along the way.

Your Impact

The backend developer role at Showcase will be working on an agile development team to build our market research platform that connects brands and consumers.

Your primary tasks will be:

• Building 3rd party integrations and data pipelines
• Designing and implementing API endpoints and resolvers in Golang
• Managing the hosting environment and performing database changes
• Collaborating with the team to turn business requirements into performant executable logic and algorithms

This remote opportunity provides significant room for growth and flexibility.

Sound Like You?

You might be just who we’re looking for if you:

• Have 3-7 years of experience with a static programming language such as C#, C++, or Java, with a strong preference for Golang
• Have developed APIs in a production environment, with a strong preference for demonstrated GraphQL experience
• Are committed to good due-diligence in testing and documentation.
• Knowledgeable of current trends and best practices in web development, including performance, security, and usability.
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, analytical, a problem-solver, and can function well in a self-directed, team-oriented environment.
• Fast learner who is keen to learn new skill and techniques
• A skilled written and verbal communicator
• Authorized to work in the United States.
• Bonus points are given for experience with Go frameworks such as Negroni, gqlgen,

Highlight is committed to diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer including veterans and people with disabilities.

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision) with 100% premium covered
• Generous PTO / sick leave
• Flexible, remote WFH culture
• A work-from-home credit to help with office expenses
• Access to Hearst Tower & its facilities in NYC (should you choose to be in person)

How to Apply

Does this position sound like a good fit? Email us at joinus@letshighlight.com

• Include this role's title and your name in the subject line (it'll help us to sort through the emails).
• Send along links that best showcase the relevant things you've built and done.

Job Description

Clearmatics is a protocol engineering company. We are building a new financial market architecture that is more open, fair, and resilient than the legacy systems that are in use today. We develop protocols and software that create new markets for risk and more efficient infrastructure for trading, backed by a robust and scalable blockchain network, and secured with modern cryptographic techniques and economic mechanism design.

Clearmatics is based in London but operates on a 'remote first' model. We welcome candidates from all over the world. We have close ties to the Open Source and Ethereum communities, with Vitalik Buterin as an adviser.

The Engineering team at Clearmatics is responsible for developing our blockchain software at Layer 1 and Layer 2. At the core of our stack is the Autonity client, the node software that powers our blockchain network. It is based on Ethereum (go-ethereum) and is secured by Tendermint Proof-of-Stake consensus. Our decentralised platforms are built on smart contracts and decentralised applications, and are supported by backend services in Go.

We're looking to hire a Core Developer to expand our Layer 1 Engineering team.

ABOUT YOU

You're a systems programmer with good knowledge of Layer 1 protocols, and a passion for blockchain and decentralisation. You enjoy working to a high standard and writing code that is clean, performant, and maintainable. You appreciate the importance of careful design choices and can anticipate the impact of code changes on wider system behaviour. You can demonstrate a strong interest in blockchain and may even have open source contributions that you can highlight. You express yourself clearly in writing and in discussions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be involved at all stages of the development lifecycle for the Autonity protocol and its blockchain node client (a fork of go-ethereum). These include: - Implementing new protocol features in Go and Solidity - Developing new distributed systems tests and frameworks - Contributing to protocol and design specifications - Working with members of the community to resolve issues - Your work will ensure that Autonity client is correct, reliable, performant, and secure. This will enable Autonity to serve as the foundational layer for a new ecosystem of decentralised markets.

REQUIREMENTS

• At least a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Strong programming skills in a low-level language like Go, Rust, or C++ (ideally 2+ years with Go)
• Experience with network, concurrent, and distributed programming/debugging on Linux systems
• Good knowledge of Ethereum protocols, BFT and dPoS consensus, P2P messaging, and crypto primitives

BONUS POINTS

• Experience developing on a blockchain node client (preferably Ethereum-like)
• Knowledge of distributed systems theory obtained from coursework or self-study
• Smart contract programming experience using Solidity and Web3 APIs
• Our compensation is blockchain competitive and dependent on your skills & experience.

Job Description

Are you a Golang developer that’s passionate about developer tooling? ActiveState is looking for developers to level up their end-user tooling team. This team is mainly responsible for “the State Tool”, a new command line tool we’re developing that allows you to quickly jump-start runtime environments for your projects. Backed by ActiveState’s new platform we’ll be able to provide developer tooling unlike any you’ve seen before.

If you know Python, Perl, or Tcl you've probably heard of ActiveState's language distros. Now we’re building an ambitious language distribution platform and set of tools so that coders can focus on coding and spend less time worrying about dependency hell, third party vulnerabilities, and inconsistent developer environments.  We’re doing this for every language and platform on the planet (and beyond). We need your help to do it! Best of all you’ll be working on a product that you’ll use yourself daily.

This position is based out of our headquarters in beautiful Vancouver, BC. Remote work will be considered, but only for candidates in North America.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

Your job is to help us build the tools that take the pain out of developing code in teams. Our lofty goal is to replace the venerable README file with a single command. You’ll work on command line clients, editor tooling, and more. While a primary amount of your job will be described as back-end work you must be comfortable with a little front-end work as well.

When not working on code, you’ll be meeting with your team to figure out priorities, features, technical issues, etc. You’re someone with good technical knowledge who also has an interest in the end-product you’ll be building.

Our day to day work practices are centered around GitHub, pull requests, code review, CI for testing, and agile development with Pivotal Tracker as our project management tool. We’re always looking to improve our practices and we expect you to help us to do so.

We’re a polyglot company and embrace using the best language for the given task at hand. You’ll regularly find Golang, Elm, Javascript, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, DCOS, CircleCI, and other modern tools. Quality is as important as speed. We’re building for the long run, so you’ll need to be proficient in writing tests and documentation too.

Our back ends and command line tools for interacting with our Platform are written in Go. While certain extended components of the platform that you might interact with from time to time are written in Elm and Python. We’re also aiming to get a foothold in TypeScript for future editor plugin work.

The team is scattered around the US and Canada, so we coordinate with each other and the rest of the company using Slack for chat, Highfive for video calls and screen sharing, Pivotal Tracker, and the Google Suite.

We like to use open source software whenever possible, and we also like to contribute back to the open source ecosystem. We embrace open sourcing both libraries and tools developed in-house as long as those are not mission-critical code.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

• Working for a stable and growing company that offers the environment and personal growth potential of a start-up.
• The chance to work with a smart, passionate team of people.
• The chance to work on a project that will change the work lives of developers around the world, including your own!
• Competitive salary, bonus, and stock option plan.
• Comprehensive benefits package and health/wellness credit program.
  

REQUIREMENTS 

• Experience with Go.
• The ability to quickly pick up new languages and technologies.
• Experience with relational database (mysql, postgres, ..).
• Basic knowledge of JavaScript and front end development.
• Experience with all 3 major platforms (Linux, macOS, Windows).
• The ability to write clean, well-tested code with clear documentation.
• Excellent written and spoken skills, both technical and non-technical..
• A willingness to engage in the process of defining our work through conversations with product management, other engineering teams, and the rest of the company.
• The ability to help others on the team become better at their jobs through mentoring, thoughtful code reviews, and generally being a team player.
  

ASSETS

If you have experience with any of the following please make sure to highlight it in your cover letter:

• TypeScript experience.
• Javascript tooling such as Webpack and frameworks such as React and Redux.
• Elm experience, especially large Single Page Apps.
• Microservices and message queues.
• Good working knowledge of Docker.
• Experience building both web based and desktop based software.
• Docker, Mesos, DCOS, Kubernetes.
• Functional programming languages.
• Experience Creating parsers, compilers or code intelligence systems
• Deep understanding Process management on Windows or Unix environments
• Work with reactive, event based systems
• Low level architecture (sockets, primitive data types like in C) and the ability to interface and interact with low level libraries (e.g. debuggers).