Join our team either remotely or in our HQ in Amsterdam. This role can be based in any location within the EMEA region.
About us
MessageBird is transforming the communications landscape as one of the fastest-growing software companies in the world. Our cloud communications platform makes it possible for businesses to instantly connect with over 7 billion phones globally, allowing them to speak with their customers in the same ways they talk to their friends.
Our suite provides access to all major messaging channels, from SMS and Voice to WeChat, Messenger, Facebook, WhatsApp and more. We provide out-of-the-box solutions with our own applications like Inbox and Flow Builder, plus a robust set of APIs that simplify workflows and automation.
With over 15,000 customers — from small and mid-sized businesses to some of the world’s biggest brands — it’s likely that you’ve benefited from our technology at some point. Our products range from turn-key applications like Inbox, Flow Builder and Campaign Builder, to leading solutions and APIs for enterprises; all are available through our Online Self-Serve (OSS) dashboard.
Our global team is a powerhouse of 350+ employees, who work across eight international offices. We’re excited that you’re here and interested to #jointhenest.
How we work
We work fast, grow fast, and build fast. Life at MessageBird moves in fast-forward motion. We’re a team that focuses on making an impact — right from day one. We are go-getters, industry leaders, and dreamers. Risk takers. Roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-it-happen kind of people. We thrive on transparency, and we value solution-minded attitudes.
We are all driven by one ethos: Get Shit Done. We love shaping things together and leveraging different perspectives, because that makes our products better. Our Birds are empowered with freedom and opportunity; in return, we expect honesty, courage, and agility. We own our work, and sometimes we fail. And then we get back up and cross the finish line — together as a team. Sound refreshing? We think so, too.
The role: Senior Software Engineer Golang
Senior Software Engineers play a key role in our product engineering squads. You’ll be responsible for helping design, develop and maintain our communication products and related services. This will enable our customers to send out millions of SMS messages per day; place voice calls via our REST API; gain real-time insights using our Dashboard; and reach out to consumers via IM platforms like WhatsApp.
Our product engineering squads have the freedom and authority to create impactful products to empower both our internal and external customers. We use an agile development methodology, meaning we deploy code multiple times per day while ensuring our applications are rigorously tested and statically analyzed.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Help design and build a performant, scalable and fault-tolerant communication platform.
Team with engineers to solve system design and implementation problems (and get a thrill out of every triumph!).
Work with and enable engineers from other teams who interact with the platform.
Problem-solve issues based on business/customer need and impact, working with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Teach others: One of the most meaningful tasks of a Senior Engineer is improving the knowledge level of the team members.
You will flourish working in a hyper-growth environment where the next project is ready to be picked up.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
At least 5 years of relevant software development experience
Strong experience in Golang is a must
Strong experience working with relational databases and non-relational data stores (like MySQL, Cassandra & Redis).
Experience with Docker, Containers and Kubernetes.
Practical and theoretical knowledge of development patterns, software architectures and design patterns (TDD, Event-Driven, SOLID, Hexagonal, DDD).
Knowledge of (cloud) infrastructure principles (load balancing, high availability, containerized services, database configurations) is a bonus.
Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
Ability of teaching others and helping them grow.
Psst… some added perks
The ability to Work Anywhere — literally anywhere you want, as long as it’s in the same time zone as your team (yup… you read that right!). This comes with the added benefit of finding the right work-life balance for you by following our 80/20 rule.
WFH office set-up allowance to make sure you have all you need to “get shit done” in an ergonomically-friendly manner.
Top-notch work equipment (including Bose headphones!).
MessageBird swag to keep you well-dressed.
The occasional (virtual) company-wide and team events.
A team of (fast-)forward-thinking, talented and fun colleagues from more than 50 countries!
MessageBird is an equal opportunity employer. If you think you’re a match for this role and can bring some great skills to the MessageBird team, please apply! We’re excited to get to know you.
Loophole Labs is an early-stage startup building open-source developer tools focused on the networking and application delivery control space.
What's the opportunity?
We have an opportunity for developers who want to help build revolutionary open-source tools from the ground up. You will be involved in the key decisions - software stack, toolset, architecture, and you will work closely with the leadership team. Our HQ location will be Toronto, but we are open to individuals working full-time but remotely within the CA/US/UK/EU time zones. Furthermore, all of your work at Loophole Labs will contribute directly to open-source projects and repositories.
Why is Loophole Labs an amazing place to work?
We're building an engineering culture with tons of autonomy, constant desire to improve, and a focus on creative problem-solving with measurable customer impact.
We have a modern tech stack designed to build software that's efficient, scalable, and maintainable. We offer competitive salaries and generous equity options, not to mention that we are a completely remote company.
We have an incredible engineering culture based on true ownership, a customer-obsessed mentality, and taking the time to get the technical details right. We're built to scale well and scale fast.
You always want to learn, and you take pride in what you build.
You've got a startup mentality and love creative problem-solving.
Ideally, you are deeply curious about what's happening in the world of work. You are driven to create a product that solves an immediate, real-world need.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing high-quality applications. They will also be responsible for designing and implementing testable and scalable code.
Responsibilities:
Write good quality code and focus on the details - Since we're delivering an open-source tool, it's important to us that the code be easy to maintain and easy to understand. We want you to be proud of the software you write, and ideally this will already your past work, whether it's through an open-source Github repository or a web app you've published.
Work with the management team to architect fault-tolerant and highly-scalable infrastructure
Analyze and maintain external open-source libraries and tools
Discover and fix various bugs
Take ownership of projects and features
Run benchmarks and improve our core technologies
Foster an engineering culture
Analyze and maintain existing internal and external open-source libraries
Qualifications:
At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience
Understanding and implementation of common networking protocols (SSL/TLS, L4 Traffic, L7 Traffic, TCP vs UDP, etc.)
Experience using Kubernetes (ideally in production environments)
Experience with Golang or Rust
Experience with GraphQL or NoSQL Databases
Experience working with product and design teams
Familiarity with Git
Familiarity with CI/CD processes
Bonus Qualifications:
Familiarity with Distributed Systems Architecture
Existing contributions to Open-Source software (we'd love to see your work!)
Familiarity with AWS, GCP or Digital Ocean
Nuxt.js or Vue.js
TailwindCSS
We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all of the above requirements!
Senior Backend Engineer Teylor Ag Remote (Europe) €50,000 to €66,000 a year
January 2021
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About us
Teylor is a fintech startup based in Zurich, Switzerland. Our goal is to bring SME-Lending into the 21st century by building credit-scoring and credit application software that allows European small businesses to get access to financing more easily. Our core product is the Teylor lending technology which digitizes and automates the entire SME credit cycle. Banks use our technology to automate their processes and we use it for our own lending activities. We work to solve two key problems: First, we help banks to digitize, become more efficient, and cut costs. Second, we help SMEs to get faster access to liquidity. Our goal is to become the leading European lending technology provider over the next years and we are now looking for top-talents to join our team.
if you want to work in a dynamic and well-financed fintech that makes a real difference for small businesses and the financial industry, Teylor may be the right place for you. As we are growing fast, we can offer you attractive growth opportunities. If you want to grow together with us, enhance your skill set, and master real challenges, then we are looking forward to your application.
Your Role at Teylor
We are looking for someone with senior-level experience building backend systems to join our team and help build our SaaS lending platform.
In this role you will work closely alongside our existing development team, Head of Lending Solutions and CTO to understand and implement financial software and features. You will build secure, high quality software, while also helping to define MVP approaches to expanding our SaaS platform internationally. You will be working on expanding our platform's feature set to cover use cases for a growing number of banks that rely on the Teylor Lending Cloud to digitise their entire lending operations.
Responsibilities
The responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Build and take ownership of components of the Teylor Lending Platform,
Write production-grade, robust and well-tested code, primarily in Go but with some Node.js/Typescript work as well,
Develop financial software and services,
Develop integrations with our partner banks and various external financial systems,
Maintain high code quality via robust testing, peer code review and automating as much as possible,
Work closely with designers, product managers and other team members to conceptualize, build and launch new features.
Requirements
A degree in computer science OR equivalent experience as a backend engineer
Experience with backend development in Go including running Go code in production
5+ years of backend development experience
Excellent written and verbal English
This is a fully remote position and you MUST be located within Europe and willing to work mostly during our standard working hours (~9:00-18:00 CET). You will join an existing remote team that is used to working remotely.
Nice to Haves
Familiarity with Node.js and Typescript
Experience with serverless/functions/lambda architectures and technologies
Experience with AWS APIs, CloudFormation and/or other infrastructure as code technologies
Experience with relational databases and SQL - especially Postgres
Familiarity with modern build pipelines and tools (CI/CD)
Experience working in remote teams and at small companies and startups.
German language skills
Our Expectations
The following list are the things that matter to us and that we want to see in the people who join our team, regardless of which position:
You take responsibility end-to-end and your colleagues can rely on you to show ownership.
You care about your work and your attitude and how it affects those around you.
You understand that communication is one of your key responsibilities.
You make pragmatic decisions that bring the product forward.
You are open to the ideas and concerns of other departments and stakeholders.
You work hard, are passionate about building great products and are happy to tackle big challenges.
You love to teach and to learn from your coworkers.
You are flexible and not afraid to deal with uncertainty.
And most importantly: You are focused on shipping features for our users and getting the job done.
Perks & Benefits
Competitive compensation package.
25 days of paid leave per year.
Regular team meet ups in different European cities (...once Covid is done).
Teylor is a fully remote company. We will pay for a part of your coworking fees if you decide to work in a shared office wherever you are located.
Software Developer - Backend GRAX Remote, US $130,000 to $200,000 a year
January 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Software Engineer - Backend
About GRAX
At GRAX, it’s all about data. We help our customers secure and drive value across their ever expanding enterprise SaaS data footprint. Initially, we're focused on Salesforce, the wildly popular CRM platform used by the world's most successful companies. We capture and retain every data change over time, so it can be stored, processed and analyzed using the full power of AWS, Azure and GCP.
GRAX is a well-funded Series A startup. We’re one of the fastest growing partners in the Salesforce ecosystem with revenues more than doubling year-over-year.
Who we are
GRAX was founded by serial entrepreneurs with a long history of success in the Salesforce ecosystem. The product and engineering organization is led by veterans in cloud platform development, including some of the key architects behind Heroku.
About the role
The Backend team builds and maintains the core distributed data pipeline that slurps data from SaaS APIs, secures it for safekeeping before transforming and routing it to its final destination. As an engineer on this team you can expect to:
Program mostly in Go (golang.org) within a group of experienced developers committed to learning, sharing and continual improvement.
Work closely with internal teams from PM through Customer Success - and occasionally directly with customers.
Own the full lifecycle of specific features and product areas from design to release
You may be a good fit if…
You have experience with large scale data processing
You have built or operated a large cloud service
You have prior experience working with distributed systems with a focus on reliability and resiliency.
You have extensive experience building on AWS, GCP and/or Azure.
What it’s like to work here
Founded in Boston, GRAX is a remote-first, distributed team. We value collaboration, communication and accountability. You’ll be offered a competitive salary, equity, full health benefits incl. dependents and unlimited PTO.
GRAX embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe the more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.
Perks & Benefits
Full health benefits, including dependents. Unlimited PTO. Equity. Competitive salary.
DevOps Engineer nextmv Remote (Europe, United States) / New York / Philadelphia $100,000 to $140,000 a year
January 2021
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
nextmv (YC W20) is changing how companies automate and optimize their operations. We provide developers with the building blocks to create and test decision models, quickly. From logistics to healthcare to finance, every company can benefit from decision engineering using optimization and simulation. We’re looking for incredibly motivated people to help!
In a little over a year we have made substantial progress. We’re already landing enterprise clients. We’ve raised over $11 million from leading VC firms including Y Combinator, Firstmark Capital, Dynamo Ventures, and 2048 VC. And we’re just getting started.
We are looking for a DevOps Engineer II who is familiar with cloud platforms, container technology and loves automation. As the first dedicated hire supporting cloud infrastructure, internal tooling and automation you will have an impact on how we operate all our systems and services. In this role you will help build and maintain cloud infrastructure for our tools and products as well as assist with customer deployments ensuring we are following best practices and industry standards. You'll directly contribute to the success of our new hosted product by serving a hybrid DevOps / SRE function. This role will participate in our on-call rotation.
Requirements
3+ years as a software engineer, DevOps engineer, cloud engineer, site reliability engineer or systems administrator
Demonstrable experience administering AWS, especially VPCs, Lambda, RDS, S3 and IAM Roles & Policies
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) using Terraform
Excellent understanding of Docker & container technologies
Hands on experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible
Demonstrable understanding of modern software development practices including pair programming, peer reviews, Git-based workflows, continuous integration and delivery, and automated testing
Comfortable with Bash and Python
Familiarity with monitoring tools and services (DataDog)
Not required, but a plus:
Experience with Go or another statically typed and compiled language
Ability to evaluate the benefits of using in-house vs off-the-shelf solutions
Software development experience
Familiarity with on-call / incident response practices
2+ years of remote work experience
These are some of your traits:
The idea of working in a fast-paced startup environment excites you
You thrive on automating everything and adding structure to processes and procedures
Working together as a team to accomplish goals is more important than working alone
You are eager to support our customers when they have DevOps or cloud engineering questions and researching technologies to find solutions
You value simplicity over complexity
You embrace challenging technical work
You thrive on discovering and documenting simple, pragmatic solutions
You’re not afraid to speak up when you have a point of view, but can “disagree and commit” once a final decision is reached
You just read this whole list and got more excited than concerned
How we work
We are remote first
We value amazing work and a strong work-life balance. The majority of our collaboration happens on Slack and Zoom. We get together quarterly for team offsites so we can get some facetime (Covid Pending).
Salary Transparency
We believe that financial transparency creates trust, and that teams with a high level of trust are able to execute more effectively. We view salary transparency as a way to challenge a rampant problem in our industry: the wage gap. The base salary for any two employees in the same role is the same. Performance in that role is the differentiator, not upfront negotiation.
Benefits
This is a salaried role. In addition, nextmv offers:
Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
Minimum Vacation Policy - (3 weeks minimum)
Stock Option Plan
401k
Home Office Stipend
Parental Leave
This role (and all roles at nextmv) is remote. That being said, all employees should be able to travel to company retreats quarterly (when COVID settles down).
About nextmv
nextmv helps companies automate and optimize even the most complicated operational decisions. The nextmv platform allows any developer to quickly build, test, and deploy models that automate routing, assignment, matching and scheduling.
Our Values
Our values are aspirational and affect everything we do. At nextmv, we hope to instill core attributes and practices into our daily lives. We will work toward these goals together, and help each other along the way.
Community
We act as a group of skilled contributors with diverse backgrounds and a common mission.
We listen to each other to actively instill empathy in ourselves.
We introspect about our actions and their impacts.
Candor
We share information, from company strategy to small insights and feedback.
We collaboratively review our decisions and code using the same process.
We own our mistakes and admit our vulnerabilities.
Focus
We are ambitious and value achievement over status.
We are innately driven to innovate and improve the world.
We apply our time and skills effectively to challenging problems.
Balance
We separate our work from our self-worth to view and improve it objectively.
We don't overwork, and take regular time away to encourage creativity.
We take care of ourselves so we can give our best to our team.
Golang IoT Engineer MySense Remote (United Kingdom, Europe) ÂŁ70,000 to ÂŁ85,000 a year
January 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
MySense is a wellbeing analytics platform which utilises a suite of Zigbee IoT sensors, a sleep belt and a wearable device to provide valuable insights into a person’s behaviour in order to improve quality of care and support.
We are at the forefront of a new industry which is improving people’s lives using technology, your work will have great value and purpose. Our ideal candidate has leadership capabilities, a passion for design and strong attention to detail.
The Role
This unique role requires a Golang engineer to rebuild an embedded Java application using Go microprocesses. The current app is written in Java 8 and is hosted on an Embedded Linux system. You will need a passion for hardware and IoT as you will be doing a lot of testing using physical IoT devices.
You will work directly with the Engineering Lead to create production ready code with good test coverage. If you are a Go engineer who has always tinkered and enjoyed working with embedded Linux devices, this job will be perfect for you. The role will involve learning new technologies and becoming the go-to expert for all things gateway related.
Required Skills:
Strong Golang experience
Good knowledge of design patterns and programming practices
Comfortable with Linux systems
Bash experience
Some experience/knowledge of Java or other OOP language
Desirable Skills:
IoT device experience
Embedded Linux
AWS IoT Core
Node/Typescript
Due to the nature of the data we collect, a strong understanding of best security practises would be advantageous
Why us
We are a fast-growing scale-up in the IoT health space, you will help shape the team and company and your decisions will have a huge impact. As an IoT company, the challenges we face are often novel and require unique and innovative solutions which can be both invigorating and rewarding. We trust our engineers, remote working is very much encouraged.
Our culture
We foster a culture of openness and authenticity over structure and process. Strong communication, learning and collaboration are what we strive for and we are looking for people who share these values.
Our benefits:
30 days holiday + your birthday + Public Holidays
Fully remote
Monthly education allowance
Private Health Insurance
Life Insurance at 4 times annual salary
Pension scheme
Company laptop
Where
We are set up to work fully remotely, and this is how we will continue to operate. We do have offices which can be used as and when required.
We are right by Lambeth Bridge on the 12th floor of Westminster Tower with great views overlooking the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey and the London Eye.
Senior Software Engineer Stellar San Francisco, United States / Remote (United States / Canada) $160,000 to $190,000 a year
January 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Open to considering remote candidates in the US & Canada
Interested in helping us change the world of payments forever? The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is looking for a talented, experienced, and hands-on engineer to assist partners with integrating into the Stellar network. In this role you’ll be designing, building, and implementing innovative blockchain solutions for our partners. You will lead the way in developing projects, from scoping & system design to development & best practice deployments. SDF’s partners span globally and are some of the most innovative software and financial companies.
What you'll do:
Be involved with all aspects of the software development process - from vision to final implementation.
Design new platform functionality with the corresponding APIs for external developers.
Build and maintain web services to support the foundation’s mission (creating equitable access to the global financial system).
Identify patterns in developer needs and design new protocols and services to increase developer velocity across our entire ecosystem.
Engage with our community of open source developers and partners on projects that encompass many different frameworks, languages, and ideas.
Collaborate with the team on code review and design, and contribute to best practices for all of engineering at SDF.
Investigate and refactor performance bottlenecks in order to continue scaling our API services.
Provide assistance and guidance for our integration projects with our partners and other organizations on the Stellar network.
Author detailed technical feature and protocol (RFC) specifications - we take design seriously, and we encourage everyone to be a part of our RFC processes.
Who you are:
5+ years real-world experience developing or implementing software within enterprise networks
Solid understanding of web technologies: TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, JSON, REST, etc
Proficiency with programming languages such as JavaScript, Go, C++, Python, or similar
Ability to lead technical discussions and explain technical details to non-technical people
Independent and results driven. Skilled at working in an environment with dynamic objectives (maybe you even thrive on chaos)
You’re a strong problem solver and fast learner
You’re passionate about top quality code and using the latest best practices
You build software with your users and their needs top of mind
You're a true partner advocate.
About Stellar
Stellar is a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable network for financial products and services. It is both a cross-currency transaction system and a platform for digital asset issuance, designed to connect the world’s financial infrastructure. Dozens of financial institutions worldwide issue assets and settle payments on the Stellar network, which has grown to over 4 million accounts.
About the Stellar Development Foundation
The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar, an open-source network that connects the world’s financial infrastructure. Founded in 2014, the Foundation helps maintain Stellar’s codebase, supports the technical and business communities building on the network, and serves as a voice to regulators and institutions. The Foundation seeks to create equitable access to the global financial system, using the Stellar network to unlock the world’s economic potential through blockchain technology.
We look forward to hearing from you!
SDF is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. SDF does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law.
Senior Software Engineer Go Linden Lab Remote (United States) $120,000 to $150,000 a year
January 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Our mission is to build new economies by enabling our partners to compensate their content creators for the digital goods and services they produce. Here on the Ecom engineering team, we accomplish this by building a growing set of financial capabilities on top of our regulatory licenses. Some of these capabilities include processing payments and payouts, verifying user identities, detecting fraud and enforcing sanctions. Additionally, these systems have an expanding set of tools around them to be used by our partners and customers.
Basically, we write code that lets users sell digital hats in video games and get paid real money.
This position is for a Senior Software Engineer - Go on the Ecom team. The primary responsibility is to design and build the APIs that facilitate our capabilities. This is a fast-paced team and we are responsible for the full life cycle of our code. We break large systems down into component parts to be concurrently worked on, which requires that we be in lock step with each other. This means we highly value dependability and communication. We are iterative in nature, both as it applies to the code as well as our own processes. We build cool stuff, we weigh risk/reward, and when we make mistakes, we respond quickly and together and without blame. This is a team in the truest sense.
You will:
Take features through their entire lifecycle - design, implementation, test, documentation, deployment, production monitoring, outage response, and usage analysis
Design the API spec and implement it, to enable core business capabilities around payments, payouts, identity verification, fraud detection, sanction enforcement, and tooling
Communicate not just with the team, but also directly with our partners and vendors
Participate in our culture of continuous improvement to make both the tech and the team even better
Learn about and contribute to financial technology
You need:
Experience with Golang
Experience with SQL
Experience with UNIX/Linux
Broad exposure to common web technologies
Proficiency in scripting languages
The ability to work independently and collaboratively in a remote environment
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
6 years of experience in web software engineering
Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience
What we use and teach:
Golang, MySQL, Python, Docker
Docker, Drone, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services, Terraform
Software Engineer - Golang Couchbase Remote (United Kingdom, United States, India) ÂŁ40,000 to ÂŁ90,000 a year
January 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
At Couchbase, big things happen. Every day, we’re translating vision into reality by tackling new and exciting challenges head-on. This is a breakthrough stage in our company, where the enthusiasm of our employees and leadership team is infectious and growing. You’ll have the opportunity to learn new skills, grow your career, and work with the smartest, most passionate people in the industry.
You are a Software Engineer responsible for building and managing cloud-native applications across multiple clouds. In this role, you will develop, implement, and operate Couchbase's Cloud products. If you have experience developing applications using Go programming language (or willingness to learn) along with experience with either the three major cloud platforms- AWS, Azure, GCP, we'd love to have you apply.
Here's a brief look at what success looks like in this role:
In 3 months time- you'll have collaborated with the team to build and shipped a material contribution such as a new feature, regularly contributed to code reviews, and fixed a few bugs.
In 6 months time- you'll have earned the trust of the team and taken on independent code review responsibilities that help prevent bugs that are collaborating on the design of new features.
In 12 months time- you'll have delivered tasks throughout the SDLC, from design through development with some guidance and have established a cadence of on-time deliver with high quality work.
This role is also open to remote work (USA, UK, India) as our teams are globally distributed. We are a remote-first team. Prior experience working remotely is not required, however, we are looking for team members who perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy and will establish a cadence of on-time delivery with high-quality work.
Responsibilities
Design, develop, test, deploy, document, maintain and improve software
Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
Build and expand our APIs and services, written in Go
Collaborate with other engineers across the stack to deliver delightful user experiences
Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system security, stability, reliability, and performance
Define and implement SLIs and monitor and improve SLOs
Write various kinds of tests including unit and integration tests
Smartly instrument software using techniques such as distributed tracing and logging
Write and review technical proposals
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Document systems, build runbooks, and automate those processes
Key technologies this role will employ: Go (Golang), Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Grafana, Prometheus, Alert Manager, Thanos, Terraform, Vault, Couchbase Server, Datadog
Qualifications
You care deeply about software quality and operability, and better ways of building software
You are able to knowledgeably discuss performance, security, and user interactions within complex systems
You desire to write software that is sympathetic to the humans who will maintain it
You love to write Go, more Go, and then a little more Go
You enjoy giving and receiving code reviews
You are kind and collaborative
You enjoy working remote with people from all over the world
Value clear, open communication
We value thoughtful feedback and regular dialogue and collaboration as a fundamental skill for our team members
About Couchbase
Couchbase's mission is to be the platform that accelerates application innovation. To make this possible, Couchbase created an enterprise-class, multi-cloud NoSQL database architected on top of an open source foundation. Couchbase is the only database that combines the best of NoSQL with the power and familiarity of SQL, all in a single, elegant platform spanning from any cloud to the edge.
Couchbase has become pervasive in our everyday lives; our customers include industry leaders Amadeus, AT&T, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Carrefour, Comcast, Disney, DreamWorks Animation, eBay, Marriott, Neiman Marcus, Tesco, Tommy Hilfiger, United, Verizon, Wells Fargo, as well as hundreds of other household names.
Couchbase’s HQ is conveniently located in Santa Clara, CA with additional offices throughout the globe. We’re committed to a work environment where you can be happy and thrive, in and out of the office.
At Couchbase, you’ll get:
A fantastic culture
A focused, energetic team with aligned goals
True collaboration with everyone playing their positions
Great market opportunity and growth potential
Time off when you need it.
Regular team lunches and fully-stocked kitchens.
Open, collaborative spaces.
Competitive benefits and pre-tax commuter perks
Whether you’re a new grad or a proven expert, you’ll have the opportunity to learn new skills, grow your career, and work with the smartest, most passionate people in the industry.
Revolutionizing an industry requires a top-notch team. Become a part of ours today. Bring your big ideas and we'll take on the next great challenge together.
Product Developer - Back End Appvia London, United Kingdom / Remote (UK) ÂŁ60,000 to ÂŁ90,000 a year
January 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
The Application Containerisation market is due to reach $8.5B by 2025 delivering a CAGR of 26.5%. This is being driven by many different organisations that are turning to container based infrastructure and microservices as a way of satisfying the ever complex role of Software Development. Recently, Kubernetes has become the standard in making this possible and is, in fact, the fastest growing project in open-source history. Appvia, founded in 2018, is a company of highly skilled engineers, who are building products to enable the deployment, maintaining and scaling of Kubernetes as well as the added challenge of delivering a truly cloud native vision.
We're part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and for our customers like the Home Office and Bank of England, we've already got 700+ developers using our service, building over 500+ applications, in over 20,000+ containers, running a number of critical applications for the government both on-premise and via Azure, Amazon and Google.
The Role:
You will get an opportunity to help shape how businesses deliver applications and improve the developer experience with well thought through products and engineering.
You will research, conceive and develop software applications to extend and improve Appvia’s product offerings, working with a talented cross-functional agile team.
You will be passionate about your industry and get an opportunity to make a real difference to the business you are part of.
Key Responsibilities:
Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software
Collaborate with colleagues and users on a regular basis to build out assumptions with prototypes
Build features whilst maintaining backwards compatibility
Express improvements and ideas to further develop products
Communicate effectively with all stakeholders to drive out user requirements
Lead on an idea, design and deliver working prototypes
Requirements
A strong understanding of the full software development lifecycle
Passionate about driving the best product outcomes for all users
Ability to challenge and understand real user requirements and map them to tangible technical objectives
Pragmatic and methodical approach in solving difficult technical problems
Understanding of scalable and distributed microservice concerns
Ability to architect and maintain backward compatible APIs
A passion for new technology and automation
Practical understanding of distributed systems
Good understanding of industry best practices
At least 5 years designing and developing backend systems ideally in Golang
Experience of working on and contributing to Open Source Software projects
Previous exposure to modern front-end frameworks
Experienced in BDD and test automation
Experience developing on and with the Kubernetes API
Previous Ruby/Python experience would be beneficial
Exposure to Cloud and Developer PaaS products
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Benefits
Competitive salary
26 Days Holiday including your birthday off (plus bank holidays)