Golang Senior Jobs in Senegal Paying 50,000 USD a Year

Job Description

Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?

Based in New York, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers, teams, and businesses around the world. We believe that today’s entrepreneurs are changing the world through software. Our mission is to empower these entrepreneurs by bringing modern app development within reach for any developer, anywhere in the world.

We want people who are passionate about building the systems, culture, and processes that will improve the resiliency, reliability, scaling, and performance for cloud services.

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to work closely with our product engineering and infrastructure teams. Reporting to the Director of Platform Systems, the Site Reliability Engineer will be performing a mix of hands-on development, coaching, and collaborating with other teams and stakeholders to help bring DigitalOcean’s engineering systems and culture up to the next level.

This is a key opportunity to make a significant impact in DigitalOcean’s engineering and operational systems and influence future product designs and requirements. This role is essential to accelerate the improvement of the high expectations our customers have of DigitalOcean as we continue to grow and expand.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Performing hands on technical work to directly improve the reliability, resiliency, and scaling of our key platform systems
• Working with stakeholders to develop and implement reliability and performance metrics
• Facilitate DigitalOcean’s culture of learning by providing insight and recommendations for improvement
• Coaching teams and individuals on reliability best practices and solutions
• Working with other SREs and engineering leaders to define the architectures and practices that should be adopted in order to deliver on our engineering and operational goals
• Establishing best practices for development, architecture, deployment, and operations
• Working with peer SREs to improve services and processes (including architecture reviews, incident response, monitoring) in a cross-functional manner throughout the engineering organization

What We’ll Expect From You:

• Distinguished track record as SRE (or similar role) with hands-on experience implementing reliability, process, and scaling solutions
• History of fostering positive relationships with stakeholders and a track record of successful collaboration and coaching
• Clear communication skills (both written and verbal) to document processes and architectures
• Experience implementing disaster recovery best practices
• Developing robust solutions that facilitate streamlined resolution of customer inquiries through use of technologies for automation, deflection, and issue management
• Adept in Ruby and Go with a broad understanding of the full technology stack for a modern infrastructure
• Advocate of effective development environments with the use of CI/CD tooling and configuration management technologies such as Chef or Ansible

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We work hard but we always have fun doing it. We care deeply about each other and take our “no jerks” rule very seriously.
• We value development. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development. You’ll need to be great to get hired here and we promise you’ll get even better.
• We care about you. We offer competitive health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents, a monthly gym reimbursement to support your physical health, and a monthly commute allowance to make your trips to and from work easier.
• We invest in your future. We offer competitive compensation and a 401k plan with up to a 4% employer match. We also provide all employees with Kindles and reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We want you to love where you work. We have great office spaces located in the heart of SoHo NYC and Cambridge and offer daily catered lunches to keep your hunger at bay. We’re also very remote-friendly—we use Slack to communicate across the company—and all remote employees have the opportunity to onboard in-office and take an all-expenses paid trip to our annual company offsite, Shark Week, to get quality in-person time with the team at least once a year. We also allow employees to customize their workstations to meet their needs—whether remote or in office.
• We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Job Description

At source{d} we are building the technology stack for the next generation of Machine Learning powered developer tools. We are an open-core company built around our Open Source projects.

We have raised over ten million USD so far, and we are currently growing our team.

This is a remote position however can also be based from our Madrid office.

All remote applicants must be based between the San Fransico and Moscow Timezones

Responsibilities

• Writing robust and maintainable backend code.
• Designing new features.
• Maintain our projects and improve its stability.
• Supporting internal stakeholders.
• Supporting our open source community.

Requirements

• Strong backend coding skills in, at least, two languages.
• Good algorithmic problem-solving skills.
• Experience with performance optimization or scaling in volume of data.
• Strong Linux skills.
• Experience creating public APIs (REST, gRPC or equivalent).

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with Linux storage and networking.
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Experience with distributed storage.

Team

The Data Retrieval team is developing source{d}'s data retrieval pipelines that synchronize and provide access to any number of code repositories. Written mostly in Go, it aims to be robust, friendly, flexible and capable of running on large-scale distributed clusters over petabytes of data.

We at source{d} seek to be at the heart of any project related to source code. Thus, this core tool is used both in-house for building source{d}'s unique global scale open dataset of +60M code repositories for cutting-edge Machine Learning research, as well as used by our customers to ingest git repositories to their source code processing clusters.

• Good knowledge of Linux, storage, networking and distributed computing is important.
• You will be expected to have strong backend coding skills in at least two languages, and very good algorithmic problem-solving skills. Skill at programming in Go is not required but will be highly appreciated. We strongly believe it can be learned by any skilled developer, and we care much more about our team's mindset and prior experience than specific language skills.

Culture

• source{d} is a company for developers by developers. We firmly believe in always doing what's best for the individual developer in the community. Our team consists of members who are passionate about programming. To understand our culture better, read more about it here.
• At the moment, we are 35+ people from 10 different countries working closely together from our office in Madrid. We are more than happy to sponsor you a visa and guide you and your family through the whole process if you decide to come to work from our office, but you may also choose to work remotely. Currently, we have remote team members in USA, Portugal, Ireland, France, Belgium, Poland, Estonia and Russia.
• For those wanting to work from one of our offices, we fully support the visa and moving process for you and your family.
• At source{d}, we have a transparent salary policy which we feel strongly about it. Your seniority level will be determined during the last round of on-site interviews.
• At source{d} all of the projects we work on are public on GitHub and the vast majority are open-source under licenses such as Apache 2.0 or GPL3.
• We don't just believe in open-source, we also believe in radical transparency as an organization, there we publish everything about the company at github.com/src-d/guide.

Perks

• We go to conferences and other developer events!
• Open Source Days, every second Monday, you are encouraged to work on any OSS project you choose.
• Flexible hours, set your own schedule that fits you.
• Free books. We will buy any books that help you learn & grow.
• If you choose to work from one of our offices, you will enjoy a comfortable and spacious environment.
• Annual summer and winter Christmas parties and a hackathon retreat are held in Madrid and all team members are flown over for it.
• We also have our own, Open Source craft beers.

Other

• We offer visa and relocation support for those wanting to work in the Madrid office.
• The local timezone of developers who want to work remotely should be between San Francisco and Moscow.

Job Description

Over is an exciting Silicon Valley startup based in Cape Town, focused on making visual content and design easy for small business owners and entrepreneurs. Our vision is to inspire the world to create and empower small business owners, self-starters, and entrepreneurs with the tools and knowledge to create eye-catching visual content that helps their brands grow.

You will assist in building robust backend microservices to support content, search and other features which will drive the business to scale.

Perks & Benefits

• Unique learning and development opportunities
• Remote-friendly work environment
• Unlimited leave
• Choose your hours to match your energy levels
• Own shares with generous stock options
• A progressive and meaningful maternity and paternity policy
• A monthly travel subsidy for your commute to work
• A culture focused heavily on wellness
• A dynamic and engaging work environment where you can:
  • Spend your downtime with a buddy playing table tennis
  • Flex your mind and muscles in weekly yoga sessions
  • Find your zen with daily meditation sessions
  • Increase resilience with weekly physiotherapy treatments
  • Get your hair styled and trimmed once a month
  • Enjoy in-house coffees, teas, smoothies, and drinks made by our awesome barista
  • Read more with your Kindle (courtesy of Over) and Expensify all your books

Job Description

Salary Expectation

This is a full time contractor position with the possibility of becoming a salaried employee in the future for U.S. citizens.

• Salary between $30 and $50 per hour
• Working 40 hours a week with no overtime, we value work/life balance!
• Paid every 2 weeks
• Initially a 3 month trial period contract followed by a 1 year contract

Benefits

• Fully remote team

Location

• Fully Remote
• Development team is located across Canada, the US, Germany, and the UK

What You'll Do (Job Description)

We are looking for a web and desktop developer to join our team who has experience with GoLang and preferably with experience building Web Applications and cross platform desktop software.

This position will be fairly self directed and we are definitely looking for someone who is a self starter and is able to take any task and own it from start to finish. You will be working on improvements and new features for our web services build in GoLang and desktop software built in GoLang.

What You Need to Be Successful (Skills)

Must Have

• Extensive GoLang experience
• Mid to Senior Experience
• Appreciation for clean, reusable, and well tested code
• Can handle constructive criticism
• GoLang Web Development Experience
• GoLang Cross Platform Desktop Development Experience

Nice to Have

• Experience working with a fully remote team
• GraphQL
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Automated Testing
• Websockets
• Understands Microservices
• Database Design

Relevant Experiences

• GoLang Web Applications and API development

About Our company

SpringboardVR is the fastest growing Virtual Reality arcade management platform outside of China, and we are looking to expand our web development team!

Job Description

We are looking for experienced Software Engineers to form a five-strong Founding Team. Being with us from Day 1 you will participate in defining the architecture and technology stack of our next generation sports betting platform.

Together with your peers you will begin to implement some core services while we continue to grow our team to 10-15 software engineers within the first year. Going forward you will assume full responsibility for parts of our platform and/or processes and lead the respective team.

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years software development experience with one or more general purpose programming languages, ideally including Go, Scala or Erlang
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed
• Experience working with two or more from the following: functional programming, concurrent programming, developing large software systems, distributed systems, web application development, massive data storage, data science and/or machine learning
• Deep understanding of microservice architecture, SQL/NoSQL data stores, containerization, test automation, continuous integration/deployment, cloud computing, security and networking
• Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English

Remote Work

We decided to go remote-first in order to be able to hire the best talent in Europe. If you decide to join us remotely, as a member of the Founding Team we still require you to be present in Malta for the first few weeks. You further must be residing in a European timezone (between UTC-1 and UTC+3) and be able to travel to Malta at times for physical meetings and workshops.

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive compensation in the range €50k-100k, depending on your individual skills and experience
• Participation in our Employee Stock Option Plan
• Financial and administrative support with relocation and visa application, if you decide to join us in Malta

Job Description

Bitfusion is an Austin, TX and a Bay Area company building the operating system for managing AI infrastructure across CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs in next generation data centers and clouds.

We are looking for strong cloud infrastructure engineer (developer type) with self-directed work habits and strong willingness to learn. You will be part of a collaborative team with a culture of open communication, innovation and make-it-happen mindset. You will work on bleeding edge technologies and have the opportunity to lean new technologies. Expect excellent application development skills and Kubernetes experience is a must. Experience with building highly available, scalable and generalized infrastructure and solid proficiency with at least one modern general-purpose programming languages like C++, Go, Python, Scala, etc is essential.

You should have a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent. Top-notch communication skills are essential. Strong problem solving skills and out of the box thinking are a must. Must work well in a fast paced team of talented, motivated, and coworkers. Physically located in Austin, TX is highly preferred, though remote work may be possible depending on qualifications.

Must Haves * 5+ years of relevant industry work experience * BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent program * Hands-on development with highly distributed and micro-service environments in clouds like AWS * Experience with Docker container related technologies like Kubernetes, Mesos, etc * Experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures * Demonstrated proficiency with at least two modern general-purpose programming languages like C++, Go, Python, Scala, etc. - Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly * Should be able to pick up any new programming language and demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies quickly

Nice to Haves * Experience building APIs and client libraries * Experience with industry or open-source projects in large-data, parallel and distributed systems * Experience building technologies with caching, RPC, queuing, parallelism, multi-threading, concurrency * Experience with full stack web development

As part of your job application, send us some bullet points about the most recent projects you worked on with Kubernetes, whats your favorite programming language, what kind of things have you hacked in the past, why would like to be part of this team, etc.

We are an equal opportunity employer.

Job Description

DroneDeploy is the leading cloud software platform for commercial drones, making the power of aerial data accessible and productive for everyone. Trusted by businesses and individuals in over 140 countries worldwide, we are transforming the way drone users collect, manage and digest impactful data in a variety of industries, including agriculture, real estate, mining and construction. Simple by design and easy to use, DroneDeploy builds revolutionary software compatible with any drone. If you’re excited about drones and want to help us create a simple and seamless experience for drone users across the world, we’d love to hear from you!

The Challenge

The DevOps team is tasked with ensuring the reliability and security of our exponentially scaling platform, while serving as a force multiplier for the rest of the engineering organization. Other teams rely upon our expert guidance to design a product that earns the trust of our users, without slowing down the pace of development. We believe that automation and developer empowerment are the key to creating systems that are reliable and secure by default, while minimizing cycle times. We use a collection of SaaS, open source, and proprietary technologies; whichever provides the right solution and seamless integrations for that piece of the puzzle. Some of the key technologies we leverage include Docker (for code packaging and deployment), Kubernetes (for container orchestration), Ansible (for lightweight config management), and Terraform (to control our cloud infrastructure).

The Role

In this position you will be expected to:

-Have a mind for simplifying unnecessary complexity. -Empathize with the people who use the systems you build. -Excel at critical thinking and adapt to new situations. -Anticipate future problems, without over-engineering the present. -Share your expertise with others, but never stop learning new things.

We are looking for someone with:

-A depth of knowledge in at least one domain. -Minimum of 2 years’ experience managing complex systems using software. -Experience writing and maintaining software applications in languages such as Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C#, JavaScript, C, C++, etc. (not just scripts, side projects ok). -Available to work on-site within our San Francisco office, or work remotely on Pacific Standard Time hours. -Familiarity with configuration management systems (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Terraform, CloudFormation). -Experience solving difficult problems with a scripting language (e.g. Bash, Ruby, Python) in a Linux environment.

Bonus points:

-Experience with container technology (Docker/cgroups/LXC/etc) and container orchestration (Kubernetes/Mesos/CloudFoundry/etc). -Experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc).

Life at DroneDeploy

We’re a team of star wars loving, hot sauce eating, tech enthusiasts with inspirational talents. Everyone is empowered to explore and implement new ideas and improvements. We enjoy our collaborative office environment and encourage each other to push boundaries. We host weekly Friday night BBQs on our rooftop deck, offer great salaries, generous equity,100% employee health coverage, unlimited vacation and delicious catered meals among other perks.

DroneDeploy is an equal opportunity employer.

Job Description

Apply Here: https://mlgblockchain.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=12

Blockchain Tech Lead Position

We are looking for an autonomous and self-motivated senior developer with management expertise to take blockchain projects and teams from start to finish. You will be responsible for specific parts delivering full blockchain projects to clients, and managing tech teams in house and with strategic partners. Managing expectations and helping out whenever necessary will be a must. Strong knowledge of the blockchain industry and previous coding experience is also a must.

MLG Blockchain Consulting is the fastest growing Blockchain consulting agency in Canada. We have grown from 4 to over 50 employees in 6 months, and expect to continue at this pace for the months to come. We work in a decentralized model, allowing you to work from anywhere. The physical HQ is in Toronto, with offices in Montreal and Rotterdam. This is an opportunity to join one of the hottest industries in fintech, and become an expert in the internet 3.0.

To Apply please take the following HackerRank test: https://www.hackerrank.com/tests/3lpe4a8jfqm/5372fcd4588995cbd3a1afb39b19d9be?try_test=true

Type of person we are looking for: You are a systematic leader with previous leadership experience scaling teams You are autonomous and have a growth mentality - willingness and ability to grow teams and manage multiple large scale projects/team at once You have at least 6 years of professional experience architecting and developing multiple large scale applications simultaneously You have extensive knowledge of both front and back-end technologies and development You love high growth start-ups, like to get your hands dirty and have previously developed SaaS products You are a coder at heart and enjoy managing and growing engineering teams You can deal with lots of complexity and enjoy solving challenging problems Experience in decentralized application deployment and maintenance You are a great communicator, know how to motivate others and have an enthusiastic and positive personality You are a hands-on team player with an entrepreneurial spirit Nice to have - You have experience working with a publicly traded company Strong experience with blockchain technology including solidity, hyperledger, truffle, etc Strong experience with backend programming languages such as golang, javascript, python English at a full professional proficiency level Working with technology vendors and handling negotiations Proven track record of leadership in attracting, developing and retaining talented staff who deliver results Experience with Agile a plus Experience with Cloud based infrastructure

For MLG

Build a code repository - Take an increasing amount of projects in house.

For Every ICO or Post-ICO You Work On

Architecting and developing smart contracts Managing smart contract and token sale page security audits Architecting and development of decentralized applications and platforms to implement tokens Scaling development team and writing weekly progress reports

Open Lines Of Communication - Work as the direct and first line of communication between client and MLG.

Help create schedules - Whenever schedules of all the deliverables are built, we will need to build gantt charts and other project management timelines in order to ensure everything is properly delivered on time.

Manage events - From time to time you will have the opportunity to take on events. In these cases you will be responsible for ensuring everything is done correctly for events. You will have the support of the executive team but autonomy is key.

Bi-Weekly Progress Reports - Draft and send bi-weekly progress reports showing the client what has been done and what they should expect. You can use already existing resources as a base for these documents.

Manage large teams - Projects will require you manage timelines that may require involvement from more than one division at a time.

Work with other partners - As we are a turn-key ICO and post-ICO services agency, we have strategic partners that we often work with for specific parts of the project.

Work with freelancers - MLG has many freelancers to turn to for urgent requests like banner creations, writers, designers, assistants, etc. You may have to work with some and should be comfortable delegating easy to replicate tasks.

Stay active in the crypto community - Head out to events to represent your clients and personally post news about clients in select groups, forums, etc.

Work With Other Team Members - Work with team in a decentralized manner via Slack.

We are looking for a motivated individual that knows about the blockchain world and understands how blockchain development works, where to find and how to work with existing open source software, and who has the ability to create and push best practices within the industry.

His/her job will have two main facets. First is related to post-ICOs, taking charge of helping develop the decentralized applications which are powered by the token. Second is related to ICOs, helping to develop the tokensale and crowdsale smart contracts and security audits.

Salary TBD

Blockchain Developer Network - https://t.me/blockchaindevelopernetwork

Apply Here: https://mlgblockchain.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=12

Job Description

We're looking for someone who has: - At least 5 years of software engineering experience with open source contributions. - Experience developing, releasing, and maintaining production software. - Significant experience writing Golang or the ability and desire to become proficient in new languages. - A strong grasp of computer science fundamentals. - Deep understanding of the theory and implementation of database trees on real file systems. - Experience working in an agile development environment. - The ability to take ownership and see initiatives through. - Worked with and mentored junior engineers. - Exceptional communication skills. - Experience working with distributed teams.

What your primary responsibilities will be: - Improve the IAVL codebase by committing DRY, well tested code. - Work with the Cosmos-SDK team to keep the IAVL tree and its proofs well integrated. - Optimize our implementation of the IAVL tree and its proofs. - Research, design, and implement improvements to the IAVL tree, the proofs, and related protocols. - Help formalize the specification of the IAVL tree and proofs and ensure the implementation adheres to the spec. - Develop simulations for testing the behaviour of the IAVL tree under various loads and read/write strategies. - Develop alternatives to the IAVL tree like the Ethereum Patricia Trie that adhere to the same interfaces. - Mentor junior engineers and support the growth and health of the team. - Review pull requests and provide valuable feedback to members of the team and open source contributors.

What we offer: - The opportunity to build the future of the internet. - An exciting role building open source software. - Flexible work schedule. - At least 4 weeks of paid vacation. - Very competitive salary, including equity.

About our application process: Qualified candidates can expect to go through a 4 step interview process. The first interview will be a call to assess cultural fit and to make sure our goals are aligned.

If we think there is a good fit, you'll have a call with one of our project managers to learn more about your skills and attitudes toward teamwork. If it's clear that you'd be a good addition to the team, we’ll ask you to complete a technical task for which you will be compensated.

If your technical task displays a high level of quality and care we will set up a final interview with our CEO or CTO.

The process can take up to 3 weeks.

How to apply: https://goo.gl/forms/jpdRI1wD8pdfoqKl2

Job Description

Swish is a world-class development studio whose teams have delivered products for Google, Microsoft, Kik, Nasdaq, Factset, and other major enterprises. The blockchain engineering team at Swish is looking for talented distributed systems engineers to optimize protocol transaction throughput and network reliability for blockchains in development.

Our mission is to bring the promise of a decentralized blockchain-based future to reality for clients.

As a systems engineer, you will work with our blockchain developers, protocol researchers and clients to implement and improve on a byzantine fault tolerant blockchain architecture based on the Tendermint consensus layer, by increasing the throughput, reliability and stability of the network. This role is ideal for engineers who have experience optimizing performance and robustness of distributed systems, and are excited to be working on the cutting edge of high-performance blockchain protocol development.

You might have experience as an Unix/Linux distributed systems engineer optimizing performance and reliability for large-scale cloud servers, and be relatively new to blockchain and distributed consensus protocols. Or you might be a blockchain engineer who is very familiar with distributed consensus protocols like delegated proof-of-stake, and newer to working on low-level performance optimizations. Experience with Tendermint is a huge plus. Either way, you are a great detective and passionate about pushing the performance of your infrastructure to its limits, without compromising on safety or stability.

We are also looking for: Strong communication skills. Experience with performance and load testing.

You should be motivated by a desire to solve the most important problems, obtain unprecedented results, and push your methods to their maximal performance.

Responsibilities * Optimize Tendermint consensus protocol codebase for speed, reliability and performance, including making PRs as needed to the OSS Tendermint project * Troubleshoot reliability issues of distributed systems, e. g. connection losses between Tendermint nodes under heavy load * Monitor the infrastructure and blockchain performance to identify issues * Measure and improve server response times in different conditions and environments * Guide protocol design decisions

Requirements * 1+ years experience with Golang, C or C++ * 4+ years of experience in a systems engineering role * Deep experience with networking and concurrent computing * Deep experience with Unix/Linux systems * Experience with AWS/GCP * Comfortable operating in dynamic environments

Bonus Points * Background in networking or distributed systems * Familiarity with Cosmos / Tendermint * Proficiency in protocol-level blockchain development * Contribution to open source software * Degree in STEM field, especially software engineering or computer science related. * Experience in small start­up environments helping large enterprises. * Experience with a distributed team

About Swish

Launched in February 2013, Swish is a fast-growing business with an innovative working culture and teams spanned across the world with teams in Toronto, San Francisco, Berlin, Auckland, Bruxelles, Medellin, and more.

We create products for successful business using cutting-edge technologies: Blockchain, Machine Learning, and Apps Dev. Working with Swish puts you in contact with prestigious brands, wherever your base is. We are a 100% remote-work company because we believe it is everyone’s choice to live and work the way they prefer.

Work is organized in sprints  - 2 weeks periods to which, as a member of our talent community, you choose to commit. You always have the choice to accept or decline a sprint, or take-on multiple sprints simultaneously.

We let members choose what suits them best depending on their current situation: family, travel, studies, finance. We know life is not linear and we respect the humans behind the screens.

Our work ethic relies on six core values: Transparency, Directness, Meritocracy, Autonomy, Responsibility, Continuous Learning.

Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to our values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and a fun place to work.

Join the future of work today.