Golang Senior Jobs in Liverpool

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer

We are seeking a talented and experienced polyglot Senior Software Engineer to join our high quality, collaborative product engineering team. This role is expected to lead our Family Advisor product engineering team, focused on our telecom tooling, and related applications used by our Family Advisors as they assist seniors and their families in finding needed Senior Care. Our engineering teams are responsible for owning their work from conception through implementation and ongoing monitoring and support. Be a part of the booming Senior Care industry and an integral member of the company.

The Company and Our Mission:

Caring.com is the leading online destination for caregivers seeking information and support as they care for aging parents, spouses, and other loved ones. We apply cutting-edge technology to our mission: to help as many seniors and their caregivers as possible through empathetic, expert guidance. We take pride in helping the 45 million U.S. family caregivers find help for their aging family members. Many of our employees have had personal experience with caregiving and are passionate about our mission. We are an agile team that succeeds by marrying rigorous data-driven thinking with real concern, empathy for users, and the quality of their experience. Don't think for a minute that all this talk about aging stops us from having a good time--we're a vibrant group of highly talented, results-oriented types who want to use our time and our brains to really make a difference. We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and a fun, friendly, supportive work environment. Be a part of the booming Senior Care industry and an integral member of our team.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Caring, you will:

• Partner with internal teams to define and implement solutions that improve internal business processes and satisfy the needs of our Operations team and Family Advisors.
• Maintain highest levels of development practices including: technical design; solution development; systems configuration; test documentation/execution; issue identification and resolution; writing clean, modular and self-sustaining code.
• Perform code reviews, and provide mentoring support for interns and less-senior engineers
• Investigate, learn, and evangelize new technologies in order to solution evolving requirements
• Be a collaborative participant in our ever-improving, agile development processes

Our Ideal Senior Software Engineer will have:

• A growth mindset, learner, curious, inquisitive and willing to productively challenge the status quo
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to operate in an agile environment and still deliver high quality code in a timely manner
• Passion for engineering excellence, and sharing best practices with team members
• Ability to proficiently work within our legacy and modern tech stacks
• Required programming experience with React, Node, Go, gRPC/Protobuf
• Required provisioning experience with Docker, Terraform, CircleCI, AWS
• Preferred architecture experience with Event Sourcing and Microservices
• Preferred experience with Twilio

Our Technology:

• Legacy architecture and stack is:
  • Hybrid React and vanilla HTML / CSS GUI
  • Multiple Ruby on Rails MVC systems
  • GraphQL and REST APIs
  • Deployed using Capistrano
• Modern architecture and stack is:
  • Static PWA using React/Next.js
  • GraphQL gateway
  • Go microservices communicating via gRPC or Message Queues
  • CI/CD
• Hosted in AWS

What we can offer you:

• - Flexible hours and Paid Time Off policy
  • Competitive benefits package – Health, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account and Pet Insurance
  • 401(k) employer match
  • Direct relationships with executive leadership team
  • Fun work environment including social happy hours
  • Rapid company growth
  • Paid caregiver and volunteer days

Job Description

What’s my job title? Senior Software Engineer (Go) Where in the world? You can work remotely from anywhere within the EMEA regions Working hours? For this role, you will operate within any EMEA timezones What language(s) are required? Fluency in English

The Role

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.
• Experience dealing with high traffic applications (1M+ requests per day) is a must
• Strong experience working with relational and non-relational data stores (like MySQL, Cassandra & Redis).
• Experience with high-throughput relational database deployments
• 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 must.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Ability of teaching others and helping them grow. 

LIFTOFF! 🚀

Life at MessageBird:

We call ourselves Birds!

We work fast, grow fast, build fast and focus on impact. We’re go-getters, industry leaders and roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-it-happen kind of people.

Ready To Fly?

Our cloud communications solutions make it possible for over 25,000 businesses to instantly connect with billions of devices worldwide, allowing them to speak with their customers in the same ways they talk to their friends.

Headquartered in Amsterdam, we’re proud to be a “Work Anywhere” company. Our unique and united culture is rooted in our team: a diverse flock of over 750 Birds who represent 55 nationalities and counting. We’re smart, fast, and hungry.

MessageBird is committed to fostering a fair and equal environment based on trust and mutual respect. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace is paramount to our success and we are committed to building a team that represents a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

Perks & Benefits

What You’ll Gain

• Work from anywhere
• Generous stock options for all Birds
• WFH set-up budget
• State-of-the-art work gear
• Learn from hundreds of the best minds in the business
• Collaborate with diverse colleagues from over 55 countries (and counting)

Job Description

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.

Job Description

About the company
Powerful social gaming over live video.

Sport Buff is next generation audience engagement for sports video. We engage viewers through live predictions, polls, votes and more over the top of video content - live, replay and highlights.

Even with time-shifted audiences, Sport Buff is the tool to bring the vibrancy and excitement of the live experience, over the top of replay content.
We are currently working on a new campaigns in football (soccer), esports, basketball and more with world's leading rightsholders.

Salary
55000 GBP - 65000 GBP

Job description
Sportbuff is looking for a Senior Golang Engineer to work together with our existing Senior Golang Engineer and add new exciting features to our platform.
You will be responsible for developing and maintaining our REST API (written in Golang) as well as planning and implementing new technologies to help us scale our systems to serve millions of users.

Key Responsibilities:

Τechnical design and architecture
Code new features as well as maintaining existing features
Write technical documentation
Participate and run code reviews
Prototype new and redesign features
Provide unsolicited advice on the product
Fixing bugs

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience with Golang (4+ years)
  
• Excellent experience creating and running web APIs
  
• Excellent experience with databases
  
• Excellent experience with testing
  
• Experience building high-performance and fault-tolerant applications.
  
• Experience with cloud based applications
  
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
  

Bonus Points:

• Experience with Agile development and rapid iteration cycles
  
• A background in startups
  
• Experience working with live sports data feeds and APIs (OPTA, Sportradar, etc)
  
• Being a fan of live sports and watching sports
  
• Experience deployment/management/troubleshooting of AWS infrastructure
  

What you can expect from us:

• Working directly with some of the greatest sports brands in the world
  
• Work in an exciting fast paced tech start up environment
  
• Working with sports and esports!
  
• You have direct access to senior team members (CEO, CTO, VPs etc)
  
• A hugely passionate team who will support you all along the way
  
• Working with some of the latest technology creating a new experience for the public
  
• Flexible start and finish times - though you need to be available for daily briefings
  
• A fantastic learning experience, with long term potential from being one of the first hires in what will become a significant team and product
  
• Being part of something very special as we change the way sports fans engage with content

Job Description

Headquartered in London, the FinTech capital of the world, Form3 are building the most exciting banking technology company on the planet. Our mission is simple: transform payments technology to enable the global financial community to move money in real-time.

CULTURE

Being a tech-first business, we place emphasis on thinking outside-the-box. By utilising the latest cloud-native technologies we find innovative solutions to problems that others would deem unsolvable. We live and breathe open-source, prioritise best-practice and automation while Slack is at the heart of everything we do.

We advocate a positive work-life balance and offer a super flexible, remote-friendly working environment. We don’t mind whereabouts our Engineers are based as we are happy for our team to work from anywhere in the UK or EU, with most of them choosing to work remotely most of the time. However, we also have offices in London and Amsterdam, so should they ever wish to work from these, they are most welcome.

ENGINEERING TEAM

Our Engineering Team consists of over fifty Senior Engineers that are responsible for the end-to-end ownership of our platform, from architecture through to infrastructure. Individually they are all exceptional at what they do, but by working collaboratively within a team, consistently applying best-practice and automating absolutely everything they build world-class software for our customers.

There are a wide range of problems to tackle as an Engineer at Form3, from configuring nginx proxies to writing custom payment routing and handling logic. It’s very much a “best tool for the job” mentality here and our tech-stack is forever evolving. Our primary programming language is Go however we do have some services written using Java, Python and Ruby.

TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT

AWS, Microservices, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault, Consul, Linkerd, Elasticsearch, Clean Code, TDD, BDD, Pair Programming, Agile, Kanban, Scrum

APPLY IF

We are looking to speak with Senior Engineers that are EU citizens and based in the UK or EU with;

Experience or interest in Go programming language

Understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing

Appreciate the DevOps culture and the value of automation

Place emphasis on code quality, BDD/TDD and software development best-practice

Are passionate about technology and enjoy working collaboratively within a team

Have a breadth of experience across a variety of programming languages

For more information on Form3 please visit our website or take a look at our company profiles on StackOverflow, GitHub and LinkedIn.

Perks & Benefits

• 100% remote working • 30 days annual leave (plus Bank Holidays) • Great tech-stack, challenging projects and an exceptional team of Senior Engineers to work alongside • Regular paid trips to London to spend time with our awesome team • Tech-first FinTech scale-up with limitless possibilities to progress your career

Interview Process

Screening call with Talent Team (30 minutes)

Take home test (4 - 8 hours)

Technical interview (1 hour and 30 minutes)

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to be a part of one of our cross-functional teams to help us shape the future of the time tracking industry and deliver real value to our customers with both new and improved features.

The salary for this position is €70,000 annually.

You can work from anywhere in the world.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be taking ownership of one or more domains of our product and will work closely with other Backend and Frontend engineers using cutting-edge open source frameworks to highly-available RESTful services and back-end systems.

The main technologies you will be working with are Go, PostgreSQL and Google Cloud Infrastructure. Even though you can work whenever you want on your tasks, our team meetings can happen between 11:00 to 15:00 UTC. You need to be willing and available to attend these meetings when they happen

Your main responsibilities will be:

• developing, scaling and maintaining some of our backend services including the API, reports and other infrastructure services that manage our product and logistics worldwide
• working with multiple teams day to day to bring more value to Toggl’s users, covering customer-facing web and native applications and public APIs
• designing, breaking down, and completing projects of a medium to large scope with high-level productivity
• looking for technical problems of existing system/product without guidance and offering solutions
• leading projects with a small group of people, such as hosting weekly meetings, communicating with other partners and stakeholders

About the Team

We are a global team of 130+ awesome people working from over 40 countries around the globe. We hire globally, you work locally—in the heart of London, a beach outside of São Paulo, or a quiet village near Florence, the choice is yours. Every few months we travel to meet up somewhere in the world and spend some quality time together. We place a huge amount of trust in our people, and we measure the outcomes rather than the work itself. Our values fuel our results.

Wonder if you'll fit in?

Learn more about our culture

About You

We would love to hear from you if you strive to solve technical problems of high scope and complexity and have long-standing experience programming in Go.

In particular, we are looking for:

• Strong backend engineering experience in Go;
• Significant professional experience with distributed systems, PostgreSQL, and Google Cloud Infrastructure;
• Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation);
• Experience with performance and optimisation problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems;
• Ability to work cross-teams and improve cross-functional relationships which will facilitate ongoing projects;
• Eagerness to make contributions to improve the engineering team. For example, activities like interviewing, or mentoring;
• Mentor and grow junior engineers;
• Ability to give on-point and actionable feedback to peers;
• Effective communication skills: regularly achieve consensus with peers and clear status updates;
• Collaborate across the company to define, design, build and improve our product;
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, is required for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment;

Bonus points for:

• Having full-stack experience;
• Experience with data warehouse and analytics systems
• Experiences with Kubernetes at scale
• Experience with system architecture at scale

Benefits

• Freedom to choose when and how much you work—we only measure results
• 24 days of paid time off a year, plus your local holidays
• In-person meetups for team-building (expenses covered)
• 4-6 weeks paid sabbatical (depending on tenure)
• Laptop budget up to 2,500€ and it renews every 3 years
• €2,000 budget to set up your home office and an additional €300 every year after 3 years of tenure
• €250 per month for co-working space membership and/or internet service at home
• €4,000 per year contribution to use for training, workshops, and conferences
• €2,000 per year contribution for any equipment or services to improve and/or maintain your physical and mental health
• Support for buying tools you need for doing your best work (even eyeglasses if you need a new pair)

Job Description

About Commit

Commit is a VC-backed professional network built for engineers by engineers. We are currently hiring Senior Back-End Developers looking to join some of North America’s most innovative startups as one of their first engineers.

We exclusively work with financially stable startups with great salaries and exciting tech stacks who prioritize engineers’ growth and have exceptional team culture. We provide the information you need to make the best decision for yourself and continue cultivating your craft.

Why Commit?

• No technical interviews!

• Work with over 75 pre-vetted impactful startups in North America

• Gain access to transparent salary bands AND mentorship to grow your career

• Collaborate with like-minded tech junkies

• Build new tools with Node, Golang, Ruby and much more!

Our Hiring Process

1. Apply to be a Senior Back-End Developer

2. Go through a short 3-step interview process with Commit. Learn more.

3. If you’re accepted into the program, you’ll be paid a full salary while we work together to match you to an aligned startup.

4. Once matched, you pilot a startup for 3 months. If you love it, you stay with them; if not, we’ll work together to find a better match.

What You’ll Get

• Full-time paid employment as an Engineering Partner

• Base salary of $115K to $140K CAD depending on experience

• Extended health and dental plan for you and your family

• The right equipment to do your best work

• Access to your own career coach and a mentor for your job search

• We provide 15 vacation days on top of statutory holidays while you're part of the Engineering Partner program. There is no limit on Sick Days or Personal Days

• Invitation-only events with technical leaders

  • We’ve been lucky to have guests like Katie Wilde (VP Engineering @ Buffer), Armon Dadgar (CTO @ Hashicorp), Gokul Rajaram (board member at DoorDash, Coinbase, Pinterest and The Trade Desk) and many others join us for private learning sessions.

We are a fully distributed, remote-first community launched in Vancouver. We raised $6M from Accomplice, Inovia Capital, Kensington Capital Partners and Garage Capital.

Who You Are

• Eligible to work in Canada

• 4+ years of software engineering experience

• Experience working on SaaS, marketplace, consumer or infrastructure

• Entrepreneurial mindset and growth-oriented attitude

• Ambitions of excellence in your craft. Some of our past EPs have grown into CTOs, principal engineers, and joined companies as the first engineer

Our Tech Stack

• One/some of: Node.js, Go/Golang, Python/Django/Flask, Ruby/Rails, Java/Scala, Rust

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of Basic DevOps: MongoDB, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes/Terraform, CI/CD

• Understanding of RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL

• Understanding of cloud-native distributed systems and microservices

• Experience with relational databases, NoSQL databases, cloud infrastructure, product design

We believe that language is a tool. It’s more important that you have experience with one or more modern coding languages than that you have experience with any particular language itself.

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

As an early-stage startup, we know it’s critical to build inclusive processes as a part of our foundation. We are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.

If you require accommodations during any stage of our recruitment process, please let us know how we can best support you.

Job Description

Here at Volume, we work with the best partners to make decentralized finance protocols valuable. We solve problems of protocol utility, governance and growth for the leading DeFi protocols. From our team effort, we are able to drive massive growth of user transactions and the launch of the protocol economy. If a protocol fails to attract user activity, token value falters and innovation will flow away from the network.

Volume delivers software tools and user experiences that increase protocol token utility and community engagement, measured by protocol transaction volume growth. The Volume team’s interests are the protocol interests: Growth of user transactions.

Volume successfully launched Sommelier’s first iteration as PeggyJV, bringing the Cosmos Ethereum bridge to market and resulted in Sommelier raising a total $25MM in funding to launch the first automated DeFi blockchain to manage Liquidity Provider capital on Ethereum via the Cosmos. Sommelier consists of the Cosmos Stargate SDK, its Tendermint-based consensus layer and a decentralized, bi-directional Ethereum bridge, managed by a global network of validators. Liquidity Providers (LPs) will be able to use Sommelier to author and execute complex, automated financial transactions, such as portfolio rebalancing, limit orders, as well as a host of other features that token holders have come to expect from centralized finance (CeFi), but that are not currently available in DeFi.

Our investors include Polychain Capital, Alameda Ventures, Standard Crypto and Multicoin.

We are always looking for individuals who desire a high impact, high visibility role within a company that is making crypto and decentralized protocols valuable.

About the Role:

As a Senior Golang Engineer on our Engineering team, you will have a chance to work across the full spectrum of our protocol architecture that is built around the Cosmos-SDK, built in Golang, Rust and Solidity. Our software empowers Sommelier validators to secure the Sommelier network which offers financial automation globally. As an early employee you will be a critical part of our core team and have a significant influence over the direction of the company.the direction of the company.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participating in and driving technical specifications, design, architecture, and implementation for new features on the Cosmos SDK
• Writing reusable libraries and custom logic for blockchain state machines and ensuring solid test coverage
• Participating in code reviews
• Minimizing tech debt while strategically pushing for progress with new features
• Help scale the team and create our engineering culture
• Participation and leading coordination for one or more of the SDK’s architecture working groups

REQUIREMENTS

• 3+ years working with Go in production, as well as solid experience in some other programming languages
• Degree in Computer Science, required
• Able to meet deadlines deliverables
• You enjoy learning and digging into open source code, committing on other projects
• You can organize yourself well, and can work in an agile manner
• You enjoy a healthy balance between working autonomously and collaborating closely with peers through pairing sessions and architecture design meetings
• You enjoy analyzing solutions and can participate in defining good architecture
• Good written communication in English is essential
• Previous experience working remotely and/or leading teams is a plus
• Previous experience maintaining open source software (particularly libraries and/or frameworks), a plus
• Previous experience working with the Cosmos SDK or related technologies, a plus
• You are passionate about blockchain, have used DeFi dApps and believe in the opportunity of decentralization and blockchains to change how the financial world works today
• You thrive in a startup environment and feel best working in a small, cross-functional team where you can roll up your sleeves and be hands on
• You have an interest in working in a self organizing environment and bring creativity to start your own initiatives within the Cosmos Stargate SDK

About Volume:

Volume is a dynamic start-up company, and our successful candidate must have the ability and desire to work in a fast-paced environment. As a distributed team, we hire anywhere in the world, and at various levels of experience (entry, senior, staff). We look for people with unique perspectives and diverse backgrounds.

Volume is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse workplace. All applicants will be considered equally without regard to race, color, ethnicity, veteran status, religion, national origin, marital status, political affiliation, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, membership in an organization or any other non-merit factors.

We have a great benefits package, including parental leave, contributions to your retirement, competitive pay, and unlimited time off. For U.S-based employees, we also provide platinum-level health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.

Job Description

Title: Senior Backend Engineer | Brand Platform Location: Remote Reports to: Engineering Manager Employment Type: Based on preference, we offer full-time + benefits, or contract to hire.

Job Purpose:

Join the LTK Family! As a part of the Brand Platform Engineering team, you will help us on our mission to be the largest digital marketing platform powered by influencers. Our platform currently empowers over 5,000 brands across the globe to engage with their desired audience through our network of over 100,000 influencers. We are looking for talented senior developers who are passionate about tackling challenging features and interesting problems at scale. You'll be working with a team of highly motivated and fast-moving professionals focused on creating an innovative new marketplace platform to connect brands to the right influencers through proprietary data and actionable insight.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architecting and developing web, software, and mobile apps.
• Building enterprise level system integrations.
• Coming up with feasible and practical solutions to tough problems.
• Write very high-quality code that is robust and easy to maintain with tests.
• Drive tasks to completion and take ownership of projects.
• Work and succeed in a fast-paced and agile development environment.
• Identify and drive improvements to our software and development processes.
• Conduct peer design/code reviews.
• Work with distributed teams across different time zones.
• Technical subject matter expert, who mentors fellow engineers, demonstrates technical experience and leads teams in solving challenging problems.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• History of designing and building highly scalable distributed systems and processes in a cloud environment.
• Experience with AWS systems such as ECS, Lambda, and RDS (among others).
• Experience working in a containerized environment (preferably Docker).
• 3+ years of experience writing services in Golang.
• Have built scalable internal and public-facing APIs (REST, JSON, HTTP).
• Experience integrating 3rd party API's (REST, OAuth).
• Comfortable shipping code multiple times per day.
• Strong technical leadership and mentoring skills.
• Ability to model and conceptualize the integrations across complex systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have:

• Experience with EMR, Redshift, S3, Glue ETL (Scala), Athena
• Experience with eCommerce platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce.
• Experience designing or building cart and checkout systems.
• Proven experience designing and scaling relational databases.
• Knowledge of domain-driven design.

Perks & Benefits

What's in it for you?

• Interesting problems to solve
• Competitive comp and benefits including medical, dental, and vision
• Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Wellness benefits including workout from home with our live Virtual Fitness Classes!
• 401k retirement plan with LTK matching contribution
• Flexible work schedule plus Summer Fridays (Workday ends at 3pm)
• Virtual Company Happy Hours and Virtual Team Events!
• Disrupting the retail industry!

What you have to look forward to when you work or visit for team huddles at a LTK Office:

• Fully stocked bars and kitchen (free snacks all day!)
• Catered meals weekly
  
• Monthly Chair massages
• Laidback office environment
• Monthly themed Happy Hours!
• Free access to state of the art gym while working in or visiting our Dallas HQ
• Free Covered Parking on-site while working in or visiting our Dallas HQ

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer Developer

PeopleConnect (formerly The Control Group) is hiring for our People Search Division (aka The Control Group TCG) as our business is GROWING!!! We are looking for a talented, collaborative Senior Software Engineer Developer who is excited to learn/grow Go/Golang skills by moving to a Go environment on an award-winning team. Would you like to be part of a pioneering tech community in a highly successful company? Does the idea of keeping up with and learning the newest technologies with other brilliant techies sound exciting? If so, then read on!

People Search (aka TCG) is an award-winning web development company with over 15 million customers nationwide. Our cutting-edge technology connects, informs and protects people — both online and off. Our websites are consistently ranked in the top 500 top traffic sites in the US. Our products have been featured on the Discovery Channel, Mashable, Vice, Entrepreneur, Business Insider — and even made a cameo in a Disney animated comedy! A pioneer of new ideas, we’re constantly looking to develop and deploy innovative strategies and solutions. Our people and culture are second to none: we’re innovative, creative, collaborative and talented. We work hard, play hard, and together — we work magic!

We are currently working remote and Sr Software Engineer candidates outside the greater San Diego area may continue to be full-time remote even after we return to the office on a hybrid schedule. Employees enjoy flexible work hours every day whether working remote or in office. Our hybrid work schedule will offer flexibility to work from home a few days a week and work in office a few days a week. When in office, employees are able to enjoy our state-of-the-art office with stunning views of beautiful downtown, Petco Park and the San Diego Harbor. Our dog-friendly office includes complimentary snacks, beverages and crazy-good perks (like free massages, kombucha on tap, free catered lunches, ping pong, video games, offsite team events and more)!

We offer very competitive pay + generous bonus package, 100% company paid health insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision), UNLIMITED vacation, Paid Sick Leave, Paid Holidays, Student Loan Repayment Program, 529 Education Savings Plan, Training/Education Reimbursement, free Gym Membership, Paid Parking and 401k Plan with Company Match. Check us out here!

You will already have extensive experience building applications in a service oriented or microservice architecture. You are excited to learn/grow Go/Golang skills by moving to a Go environment. You relish complex technical challenges yet prioritize simplicity in your solutions. You understand the business requirements behind the software you build. You are passionate about learning and stay current with new technologies. You play well with others yet can operate independently as needed.

Responsibilities Include (but not limited to):

• Build and maintain ecosystem of high-volume services and APIs.
• Scaling and optimizing services and databases for performance.
• Own features from technical design through maintenance.
• Build features, investigate and fix bugs, write routine-complex tests.
• Break down complex tasks/requests into sub-tasks, make consistently good decisions, operate independently between regular or periodic check-ins.
• Consistently use software engineering best practices.
• Lead day to day tasks and priorities, accurately estimate time to complete tasks, resulting in high quality and high productivity for at least one (or more) product team(s).
• Independently lead tasks to completion gathering requirements from stakeholders. May be responsible for driving initiative to completion.
• Provide training and mentorship to other Software Engineers on their team. May do same for other teams.
• Other duties as required.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science or relevant field (or equivalent).
• At least 5-7+ years’ directly related software development experience.
• Advanced-expert backend programming skills using one or more backend languages such as Go/Golang, C++, Python, Java or Ruby. Go/Golang desired.
• Advanced-expert experience with relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL) and a deep understanding of database performance optimization.
• Advanced-expert experience using Linux.
• Advanced-expert understanding of underlying architecture and infrastructure that runs their team's projects.
• Extensive experience with cloud computing.
• Solid experience with git.
• Experience using Docker in production highly desired.
• Some experience using Kubernetes and Terraform highly desirable.
• Intermediate-advanced ability to assess/improve performance and increase observability within team's projects.
• Strong ability to develop unique, outside the box ideas.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent communications skills and highly collaborative within their team, other teams and cross-functionally.
• Ability and willingness to lead projects and mentor other growing software engineers.
• Able to work with teams as well as independently with minimal supervision.
• Exceptional work ethic, driven, self-motivated, highly accountable with strong initiative and passion.
• Excited to learn new things and share knowledge and best practices with others.

Location: Fully Remote (USA) or Hybrid San Diego, CA, USA

Note for Principal Agencies - Principal agents should not forward resumes to The Control Group (TCG). TCG will not be responsible for any fees arising from the use of resumes submitted from agencies without a prior written and signed agreement and authorized job order for this position in place.