Job Description

Senior Golang Engineer

Job description

Today, video accounts for over 80% of all internet traffic! 🤯

We are increasingly living in a video-first world where our online experiences are dominated by real-time, streaming, and on-demand video.

Our mission at api.video is to connect people through their cameras. We are a global API-first platform managing and delivering online video at scale and our goal is to become the standard for how modern teams bring video experiences into their products and services.

Just like Stripe for payments, Twilio for text and VOIP, and Sendgrid for email; we're making video accessible to every developer on the planet.

What's the opportunity? 🤔

100% Remote possible (we have an HQ in Bordeaux, and we rely on many coworking spaces) (CET timezones)

As part of the Core Team, you will be responsible of the private and public webservices conception and development. Your role will allow developers to integrate quickly all needed functionalities to deliver on-demand or live streaming videos in their own app and services.

• A unique opportunity to be an early member of a success story
• Important responsibilities in a fast growing company seeking for excellence
• A welcoming and collaborative environment with people who love working on hard problems
• Ambitious objectives enabling you to skyrocket your learning curve

What will you be doing? 🛠️

Attached to the Core Team, you will actively contribute to the development of api.video:

• by designing and developing scalable micro-services,
• by doing tests (units, functionals and mutation),
• by writing and documenting private and public API,
• by taking part of the corrective and evolutive maintenance,
• by being proactive and on the lookout of any tech opportunities that could make api.video integration easier for developers
• by ensuring code quality, sustainability and low level of technical debt
• by working in our technical environment: Git (GitLab), Ansible, Linux, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, S3

Job requirements

What skills do you need?

• You have a strong experience in conception / development, in particular with Golang
• You have knowledge in micro-services architecture, asynchronous communication and scalability
• You follow best practices such as Unit tests, TDD, DRY, KISS...
• You have knowledge of RESTful web services
• You have some experience in CI/CD
• You are passionate, curious, rigorous and autonomous, you like to work with a team on a human scale, collaborative and responsible
• You have a thirst for knowledge in the most cutting-edge fields of the industry
• You are open to training and attending conferences in order to improve your skills

Nice to have:

• PHP and/or Docker knowledge is a plus
• DevOps skills is a huge plus

Job Description

We are looking for a senior backend engineer who has worked on software and tech solutions at scale. Our daily engineering challenges include optimizing our logistics network of warehouses and carriers, building a customizable delivery experience and tracking packages world-wide in real-time. Come join an engineering team that is shaping a new, frictionless logistics experience.

Role

• Own subjects from solution exploration through implementation
• Design systems that take into consideration scale and hyper-growth
• Review your peers and ensure no bug slips to production
• Improve engineering standards and development tooling
• Join in on system design conversations in product and engineering
• Take part in our team efforts to hire and mentor new engineers

Requirements

• Engineering degree or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer working across the stack
• 3+ years of experience doing backend software development (Go, Java, Scala, Python, ...) in a professional environment
• Familiarity with systems and patterns commonly utilized to create solutions at scale
• Interest and empathy to reach for magical user experiences
• Attention to detail, hold yourself and others to a high bar when writing production code
• Strong English communication and writing skills

Bonus

• Experience with Go specifically
• Experience with distributed systems and/or micro-services at scale
• Familiarity with Kubernetes
• Experience with event-driven systems
• Compulsive software news reader (hello HN!)

Benefits

• Brand new offices in Paris' biggest tech hub (10th arrondissement)
• Innovative engineering and product culture
• Early stage well-funded company
• Founders-led company
• We are a team of foodies, so every single (pre/post-covid) day, lunch is on us. Better said, we're cooking so you'll have access to great food all day long!
• MacBooks are our standard, but we’re happy to get you whatever equipment helps you get your job done