Golang Jobs in New York

Job Description

We are looking for a sharp midlevel backend engineer who has experience but is hungry to learn more. We want you to help us design and build the next generation of high performance APIs and backend services in Go (the fastest growing language on Github). As a Midlevel Backend Engineer you’ll be an integral member of our engineering team and report to the Director of Backend Engineering.

What you can expect from us

• The opportunity to learn industry best practices on an app that serves millions (microservices, continuous development, caching, asynchronous processing, monitoring, and scaling)
  
• Openness to new approaches and better ways of doing things
  
• Exposure to other teams (product, design, frontend, devops, data)
  
• A collaborative environment that moves fast
  
• Mentorship and coaching from your manager

What we expect from you

• 2-4 years experience in backend or full stack development building APIs
  
• Prior knowledge of Go preferred but not required
  
• Positive, kind, and open to feedback
  
• Ready to hit the ground running with a commit on day one
  
• Beginning to form opinions on best practices and excited to share ideas
  
• Thrive in a collaborative work environment
  
• Have a bias to action
  
• Clear communication and ability to own projects end-to-end, coordinating with other teams as necessary

Career Trajectory

In 9 to 18 months become a senior backend engineer capable of executing large and difficult projects on-time and with minimal guidance.

Roles / Responsibilities

• Write high quality code that is self explanatory, tested, and meets objectives as described in functional specifications.
  
• Collaborate with other backend and client (iOS and Android) engineers and participate in code reviews.
  
• Participate in on-call rotation for after hours support.
  
• Follow established best practices for the backend codebase.
  
• Help analyze performance throughout the stack to optimize the user experience.
  
• Drive projects to completion with minimal guidance.

Objectives in the first three months

• Learn our systems and frameworks and begin implementing minor improvements
  
• Own and deliver a large project start-to-finish.
  
• Review and leave a comment for each backend Pull Request
  
• Participate in the weekly on-call rotation and be able to handle most issues
  
• Plan and estimate your own work in weekly Sprint Planning meetings
  
• Go to a Golang meetup

This is a mid-level position with competitive pay and benefits, plus an awesome working environment. Any company can give you free lunch and happy hours (and we do), but at Hinge we pride ourselves on caring for each other.

About Hinge

We believe the quality of your relationships determines the quality of your life. So when it comes to your most important relationship, it makes sense to take a more thoughtful approach. Hinge provides an alternative to swipe culture by creating smart matches and natural conversations among people who are on the same page. That’s why 75% of our first dates turn into second dates, and why we’re the #1 mobile-first dating app mentioned in the NYTimes Wedding section. Hinge is where the next generation is going when they’re over dating games and ready to find meaningful connections.

What you can expect from us

As individuals, and as a company, we strive to embody these 5 cultural attributes in everything we do:

• Open: Invite and deeply consider challenges and criticism.
  
• Candid: Share your genuine thoughts and opinions directly, in real time.
  
• Kind: Be empathetic, communitarian and trustworthy.
  
• Bold: Proactively identify and pursue opportunity. Think big and don’t be afraid to take calculated risks.
  
• Discerning: Think and act using the appropriate combination of principles, common sense, data and insight.

Please note that being authorized to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment at Hinge.

Job Description

A great MongoDB experience starts with great tools.

The Drivers team builds the libraries and tools that developers use day-to-day working with MongoDB. Our mission is to increase developer adoption, satisfaction and retention by providing a reliable, enjoyable interface for developers and other end-users.

For this role, we're looking for someone who enjoys designing, writing, and supporting Open Source libraries and standalone tools for developers and administrators using MongoDB.

You might be right for this role if you...

• Have substantial, demonstrable experience writing high-quality software
• Have used Go before or would love to learn it and use it in your day-to-day work
• Are fascinated with concurrency, parallelism and distributed systems
• Want to participate in Open Source software development and communities
• Communicate well, internally and externally, both in writing and face-to-face
• Are excited by our mission and values

You'll be on a team responsible for...

• The MongoDB Go Driver, currently under active development
• The command line utilities that ship with the MongoDB server, including performance optimizations as our customers deal with ever-larger data sets
• The mongomirror tool, a utility for migrating data from an existing MongoDB replica set to MongoDB Atlas (our cloud Database-as-a-Service)
• Testing, delivering and supporting the above list across multiple operating systems and versions of MongoDB

You'll have responsibilities beyond just code, including...

• Working with our Product and Server teams on designs and specifications for new customer-facing MongoDB features
• Investigating bugs and support requests from commercial and Open Source customers for the libraries and tools our team maintains
• Seeking out speaking or writing opportunities to evangelize to developer communities

Success in this role means...

• Within three months, you'll know most of the codebase you are responsible for and will be contributing effectively day-to-day fixing bugs, implementing already-planned features and doing peer code-review
• Within six months, you'll have implemented several major, planned new features in the driver or tools; you'll be able to respond effectively to technical support escalations for the codebases you know best; you'll have the trust of the team and our internal customers
• Within a year, you'll have delivered several new releases of our software, will have significantly improved the quality, performance and maintainability of our codebase, and will be able to independently scope and design new features of moderate complexity

Job Description

Datadog is building a world-class APM product that traces requests as they flow across complex systems. We are looking for an expert Go developer who can help push our tracing tools to the next level. Come and join us to build amazing open source software.

What you will do

• Write open source code that instruments thousands of distributed applications written in Go around the world.
• Drive our open source Go projects and engage with the community to find and address the most important challenges.
• Join a great team building software the right way.

Who you must be

• You’re a master Go programmer. You’ve written high-performance and concurrent applications, know your way around go tool pprof. You don’t reinvent the wheel but you prefer keeping your code concise and efficient.
• You are a great community ambassador and can drive hard technical conversations towards a good solution.
• You want to work in a fast, high growth startup environment.
• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field.

Bonus Points

• You have significant experience with Python, Java, JavaScript, Ruby or PHP.
• You have have experience with code telemetry and introspection.
• You have experience with distributed systems.