As a Backend Engineer, you will help us build features, design and implement API methods, and improve the performance and reliability of our systems. We're looking for someone who knows what it takes to deliver value to customers and takes pride in the quality of their work.
Our platform serves over twenty billion feature flags daily. The core technologies we use daily include Golang, React, Redux, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, HAProxy, and NATS.
As part of our you-build-it-you-run-it culture, all developers may be responsible of support applications in production, including on-call. On call is compensated in addition.
Build and expand our APIs and services, written in Go
Collaborate with frontend engineers to deliver user-facing features
Monitor and improve server-side performance
Write unit, integration, and load tests as necessary
Actively participate in code reviews
Write and review technical proposals
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
On day one, you should have:
Proven experience and fluency with server-side web development (e.g. in Java / Scala, Ruby, Python, Golang, Node.js)
Experience building RESTful APIs
Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, distributed systems, concurrency, and threading
Strong communication skills, a positive attitude, and empathy
You write code that can be easily understood by others, with an eye towards maintainability
You hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
You value high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
A deep understanding of networking technologies (TCP, HTTP, websockets, server-sent events, etc.)
LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that serves hundreds of billions of feature flags daily to help software teams build better software, faster. Feature flagging is an industry standard methodology of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Each flag can easily be turned off independent of code deployment (aka "dark launching"). LaunchDarkly has SDKs for all major web and mobile platforms. We are building a diverse team so that we can offer robust products and services. Our team culture is dynamic, friendly, and supportive. Our headquarters are in Oakland.
At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We've partnered with KeyValues to help demonstrate the amazing culture we've built here at LaunchDarkly, find more info at https://www.keyvalues.com/launchdarkly
LaunchDarkly offers:
Full Medical, Dental & Vision insurance
Unlimited vacation
Flexible schedule & work environment
Healthy lunches & snacks every day.
Conference & meetups as an opportunity for everyone.
A yearly education stipend for conferences and classes on your own.
A budget to personalize your work station.
A location in downtown Oakland, just steps from public transportation
Commuter benefits and bike parking
About you:
You understand how computers work and what role an operating system plays. You know why the Linux kernel is written in C and not any other language. You have a favorite file system, you know what a syscall is and you are comfortable exploring /proc and /sys. You like using Go every day, are not afraid of Makefiles and you enjoy when thousands of servers bend to your will.
You should also be comfortable joining an early stage company with a dynamic future. We offer a great salary, but expect you to value the equity as well. In return we will be very transparent with you about the company finances and outlook. You are joining a founding team and we want you to enjoy the ride.
If you are this kind of person, here is what you will be working on:
About Gravitational:
Gravitational, an early stage systems & cloud startup, is looking for ambitious and talented people. We are well-funded by fantastic Silicon Valley investors. We are an experienced team: we founded Mailgun which was acquired by Rackspace, we created Vulcand and some other cool stuff at Rackspace and are authors of Teleport and Telekube.
We are hackers. We love Linux and low level systems programming and we love helping open source communities and other engineers to get things done.
We are also dedicated to our friends, families, and hobbies outside of work. Our past experiences building companies taught us about the importance of life and work balance. It matters even more when you are building a lasting company, like Gravitational.
About the tech:
You'll be using Go as your primary weapon, but we expect you to be comfortable reading and navigating C code bases.
You don’t have to be an expert in these things, but you should be ready and excited to become one:
For this role we’re looking for a generalist full-stack software engineer. You understand how computers work and what role an operating system plays? If you’re comfortable building web applications using frontend and server side technology, most likely we’ll want to talk to you.
You should have a passion for creating great user experiences and products customers will love.
If you are this kind of person, here is what you will be working on:
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Cortex is an open-source platform for building, deploying, and managing machine learning applications in production. We believe that machine learning should be a core competency of every engineering organization. Our goal is to help engineering teams build better machine learning systems, faster.
We are a VC-backed startup founded by infrastructure engineers with backgrounds from Google, Illumio, and the Berkeley ASPIRE Lab. We are looking for thoughtful and ambitious engineers to join our founding team.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
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COMPANY At Paradigm you’ll have the opportunity to work with a young, passionate and talented team pioneering open-source decentralized exchange infrastructure that will redefine global financial markets. We are looking for engineers with deep interest in distributed systems and exchange technology.
New team members will be involved in making fundamental decisions and encouraged to be creative and independent; owning projects from conception to launch. Engineers will be involved in many layers of the emerging dApp stack, working with emerging web3 technologies to create both developer and consumer facing products.
RESPONSIBILITIES Help develop software for our current Tendermint-based relay network system. Work on production deployment/distributable version of node software. Help architect custom decentralized order-relay implementation (based on existing specification) Develop a custom decentralized order book implementation based on our current system. Adapt existing Node.js Tendermint state machine to Golang (prefered) or C++ Write developer-facing documentation.
REQUIREMENTS 3+ years of software development experience. 1+ years of experience with consensus-based systems (Tendermint prefered). 2+ years of experience with distributed/shared database systems. 2+ years of Asynchronous programming experience (Golang/C++/Rust). Proficiency in Golang, JavaScript/TypeScript. Linux VM experience (potential transition to containerized deployment). Ability to adapt to our rapidly evolving tech stack. Passion for Paradigm’s vision and goal.
PREFERRED BS, MS, or PhD from top university in a related field (CS, Math, Physics, etc.). Knowledge of market structures and exchange related concepts. Knowledge of the emerging decentralized financial primitive space. Knowledge of Ethereum and Solidity. Familiarity/understanding of web3 systems
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LaunchDarkly is a rapidly growing software company with a strong mission and vision carried out by a talented and diverse team of employees. Our goal is to help teams build better software, faster. You'll join a small team from companies like Atlassian, Intercom, and Twitter, and you'll have an immediate impact with our product and customers.
We're looking for a creative, product-focused full stack engineer to help us build our core platform. You'll own new feature development end-to-end, contributing to our back-end and front-end code. We're looking for someone who thrives on putting new features in front of customers and takes pride in the quality of their work.
Our core platform serves over four billion feature flags daily. We use the following technologies on a daily basis:
Golang— all our services are written in Go React / Redux / JavaScript on the front-end MongoDB ElasticSearch Redis HAProxy Kafka
You don't need to know all of these, but if you're familiar with some or all of them, that's a good sign.
Requirements
Nice to have
Join a small, agile team of polyglots who works on a variety of backend applications and services that are essential to our websites and business. We are a team that values collaboration, openness and learning.
Kubernetes, Docker, Go, Python, JavaScript, Java, GitLab, microservices, AWS
You are a curious-by-nature developer with 3+ years of experience. You possess a good set of foundational skills and look for opportunities to grow and bring value to the team. You take ownership, are inventive and enjoy working on things end-to-end.
A company’s culture is always a work-in-progress. Ours is founded upon a professional atmosphere where people get passionate about learning and doing our best. Sometimes we fail, but we learn from these failures. All the while, we believe that maintaining work-life balance and having fun is key to our success.
We have some of the greatest benefits such as: unlimited vacation for salaried employees, medical/dental/vision options, pet insurance, 401(k) matching, commuter subsidy, tuition reimbursement, charity gift matching, huge discounts to wireless/gym/travel/much more. Our office has free snacks, catered lunch, in-house massage chair, and more. We appreciate how hard you work and we celebrate that hard work often.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.