Golang NTWRK Jobs in United States

Job Description

Company And Culture

NTWRK, dubbed the “QVC for Gen Z,” is a new and exciting video shopping platform that seamlessly blends content and commerce for a global audience of fans and collectors. Our daily live streamed episodes feature shoppable content hosted by celebrities, musicians, and cultural icons, offering unprecedented access to exclusive art, sneakers, fashion, and collectibles. NTWRK’s unique approach connecting entertainment and e-commerce has attracted investment from the likes of Jimmy Iovine, LeBron James, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Drake, Live Nation, and Foot Locker, among others.

We are a diverse team of creatives and innovators, working together to become a massive global marketplace. We share an intrinsic motivation to redefine the mobile content and commerce experience, rooted in rich telling stories and a curated product. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve launched a two-day digital festival that featured exclusive drops from over 30 brands and artists, virtual DJ sets, and insight-driven panels and interviews.

As an early member of our team, you will play a foundational role in shaping NTWRK’s culture and market position. Forbes called us the “much-hyped e-tail platform that’s putting a rocket under retailtainment” and we were also recently named one of LinkedIn’s Top Startups of 2020.

Why We’re Hiring

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience working in and leading agile development teams. This role will be responsible for building features for our marketplace partners. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in distributed systems and Golang. Experience in React or React Native is a bonus but not required.

What You'll Do

• Spend most of your time working in Golang.
• Take full ownership and responsibility for building, shipping, and maintaining features.
• Architect and build complex new systems, focusing not only on scalability, but also on creating an amazing experience for our partners.
• Work closely with product and engineering leadership to spec-out, design and implement solutions for our stakeholders.
• Understand and collaborate on complete product lifecycle from concept to execution.
• Solve hard problems only NTWRK faces due to the thundering herd nature of our product.
• Bonus points if you have front end experience, specifically React/React Native (not required).

Who You Are

• Bachelors Degree in computer science or related field
• At least 5+ years of professional software development experience at a consumer software company.
• Recent experience developing in Golang and preferably React.
• Strong background with distributed and event-driven computing architectures.
• Quality-first mindset with focus on test automation and CI/CD.
• Expert level of knowledge of system architecture and scalability.
• Comfortable with emerging technologies, and assessing technological risk within a high-traffic production environment.
• Quick learner who’s resourceful, able to work independently, and willing to handle the pressures of an increasing level of responsibility.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package.
• Best in class health, dental, and vision insurance.
• A remote-first environment where everyone on the team has the option of remote work indefinitely.
• A brand new laptop and monitor of your choosing.
• 401k with 4% match
• Paid time off and sick leave.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

NTWRK has recently become aware of certain fraudulent activity relating to alleged (but completely fake and with criminal intent) job postings which are designed to appear to be made on behalf of NTWRK and its employees. NTWRK is working to remove such postings and investigate such activity. It goes without saying but we warn anyone to refrain from disclosing any personal information or engaging in communications with anyone who reaches out to you in or via any media claiming to speak on behalf of NTWRK or regarding potential employment with NTWRK.

NTWRK will never contact prospective job applicants from a personal email account (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.), conduct job interviews via chat or a messenger application, or send job applicants a check asking them to purchase their own computer or equipment. Do not cash the check, wire/transfer funds, or provide personal information.

Job Description

We have an opening for a Full Stack developer who is entrepreneurial and loves storytelling. This is a great opportunity for someone to get in early and help lead and shape a team of developers.

We’re looking for someone who wants to grind it out and get their hands dirty. Someone who knows when to use gum and duct tape and when to be super formal and tight.

You’ll be the foundation of the team, with the opportunity to help us grow our culture and company.

We’re looking for a Full Stack developer who will take a key role on our team. Our Full Stack developer must have knowledge in all stages of software development.

You’ll be working alongside our product developer / manager, collaborating on the various layers of the infrastructure for our mobile platform (IOS / Android).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Drive engineering efforts from ideation and design through implementation. • Solve complex technical challenges • Design, develop and deploy overall architecture of both web & mobile applications. • Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of mobile applications. • Collaborate with product team to design and implement new features. • Experience working with designers and converting designs to interface elements.

Job Qualifications – Education and Experience:

• MS/BS in Technical Field, Computer Science or Mathematics. • Ability to anticipate operational needs and identify growth opportunities. Take the lead shepherding special projects and key initiatives.
• Ability to collaborate in a rapidly evolving matrix environment and to interact effectively with business stakeholders.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience • 3+ years of experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Go, C/C++, C#, Objective C, Python, JavaScript, or Java • Extensive experience with REST APIs • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work well under pressure with a variety of people; facilitating communication between teams.
• Possess a motivated, “self-starter" personality, with the ability to learn and adapt quickly to changing needs.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and timeline driven with ability to handle many competing priorities, fulfill several project requests simultaneously in a changing environment, and meet tight deadlines. • Knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial or SVN. • Highly experienced with Content Distribution Network workflows & configurations, specifically Akamai & Wowza. • Highly experienced with back-end programming languages (Ex: PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, .NET, JavaScript & GoLang). • Proficient experience using Ex: advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as AngularJS, KnockoutJS, BackboneJS, ReactJS, DurandalJS etc. • Development experience for both mobile (IOS/Android) and desktop HTML 5. • Understanding of server-side languages including such as Jade, EJS, Jinja and Heroku. • Experience with cloud message APIs and usage of push notifications.