Golang Site Reliability Jobs in Spain

Job Description

A bit about us:

Hi! We're WaystoCap a Y Combinator startup backed by a top tier VC: Battery Ventures; and we are building the future trading platform of B2B in Africa. We are on a mission to unlock trade in Africa, by creating transparency and trust in international trade.

Our headquarters are in: Morocco and Spain; with offices in the UK, Benin, and Burkina Faso too!

We use the most up-to-date technologies, and we are looking for software developers to help us develop our trading platform and extend our micro services architecture.

Please note as we are still a small company we are looking for people to join us on our journey in the office in Malaga, Spain. We believe building a great company culture starts working together!

A little more about what we do:

Our mission is to help businesses in Africa work with trusted partners globally and grow their company. We are building a trust platform, as its the missing component in any trade! We do more than just a listing or marketplace site, and help our buyers and sellers go through the entire trade process more easily, efficiently, and improved with technology.

Here is a short video about us: The African Opportunity

We want every African business to be able to trade internationally, just like any company and take advantage of cutting edge tech to solve payments, logistics, and most importantly trust issues. In our first year of full operations (2017) we already grew 300%, and the sky is the limit!

Here is a story from one of our existing team members, that should give you a bit more of an idea about his experience joining us in Spain from Canada:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...

Your challenge as a full stack developer:

You will be part of a cross functional agile team helping to build a strong and scalable products. The team will plan, design and build innovative solutions to unlock international trading in Africa. backed by a deep understanding of software engineering and best practices, your duties will include build, monitor and maintain scalable applications.

We are looking for full stack software engineers with:

• Exceptional ability to work anywhere in the technical stack, delivering quality code both on the frontend and backend.
• Fluency in any backend server language, and expertise in relational databases and schema design.
• Strong motivation to drive impact by making product improvements.
• An ability to share knowledge, and evangelize best practices.
• You should be proactive, with strong good communication skills and an ability to learn fast.

Requirements:

• More than 4 years professional experience
• Experience in programming with one of the following language: Golang, Node, Java, Scala
• Experience in software design and testing
• Experience in database and storage technologies (RDBMS, NoSQL,...)
• Experience in frontend technologies (PWA, ReactJS/angular/VueJs)
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline
• Experience working on an agile team

What we offer:

• Product ownership and decision making in the entire development process
• Work with a talented team and learn from international advisors and investors
• Work in sunny Malaga, with a great lifestyle and excellent quality of living
• Be involved in a fundamental company supporting development in Africa
• Very competitive salary and stock options in a Silicon Valley startup
• Regular afterwork drinks, company team buildings, celebrations
• Generous PTO
• Support for relocation and visa sponsorship (if needed)
• Company provided laptop and screens (you choose your set up!)
• Have a voice in what tools you want us to use

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

About the position

The Risk team is responsible for building, improving and maintaining an event-driven, real time scoring risk platform for Cabify. The goal is to minimize fraud and credit risk while at the same time improving user experience, and improving security for our Driver and Rider apps. As a Risk Engineer at Cabify you will be responsible for:

• Improving the current scoring system by combining rule-based and machine learning to reduce false positives and friction within the app users.
• Maintaining a production platform used by millions of users with high throughput.
• Deploying and implementing machine learning models like regression and classification with the help of the Data Scientists in either Go or Python.
• Working closely with Data Engineers, Data Scientists and Systems to ensure constant quality and reliability.
• Ensuring backend support for future Front End of the application

What we're looking for: * Experience in object oriented programming in any major language ( we use mainly Go and some Java). * Experience in message brokers or similar (we use PubSub). * Experience in, at least, one functional programming language (we use Scala). * Experience in any batch / real time distributed processing framework (we use Beam and Spark). * Experience using NoSQL databases like Cassandra or HBase

Job Description

About the position

The Risk team is responsible for building, improving and maintaining an event-driven, real time scoring risk platform for Cabify. The goal is to minimize fraud and credit risk while at the same time improving user experience, and improving security for our Driver and Rider apps. As a Risk Engineer at Cabify you will be responsible for:

• Improving the current scoring system by combining rule-based and machine learning to reduce false positives and friction within the app users.
• Maintaining a production platform used by millions of users with high throughput.
• Deploying and implementing machine learning models like regression and classification with the help of the Data Scientists in either Go or Python.
• Working closely with Data Engineers, Data Scientists and Systems to ensure constant quality and reliability.
• Ensuring backend support for future Front End of the application

What we're looking for in a candidate: * Experience in object oriented programming in any major language ( we use mainly Go and some Java). * Experience in message brokers or similar (we use PubSub). * Experience in, at least, one functional programming language (we use Scala). * Experience in any batch / real time distributed processing framework (we use Beam and Spark). * Experience using NoSQL databases like Cassandra or HBase

Job Description

What will you do at Social Point?

As a Lead Backend Engineer you will manage a team of backend developers and guide them towards successful project deliveries.

To achieve sustainable results, you should be providing technical leadership through coaching and mentorship and maintain high standards of software quality by establishing good practices and habits. You will also be in charge of identifying and encouraging areas for growth and improvement within the team and work in collaboration with other backend leads and departments on company-wide projects.

Our backends are developed using several technologies and programming languages (Golang, PHP, Python,Lua, etc…), so you should not be afraid to work with our existing code, extend, maintain and continuously refactor the backend of our games.

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will also work in designing and implementing high available systems for the server part of our games. You will be part of our games team and work closely with systems engineers, game developers and other departments. You will be integrated in business decisions as part of our technology strategy.

This is you

Professional, problem solver, proactive, team worker, rigorous, with leadership skills and detail oriented. You are smart, creative and practical at the same time. And you have the ability to work fast, quickly get up to speed with existing code, and learn new concepts easily.

You also have

*More than 8 years of programming experience. *More than 3 years of professional experience managing teams. *Worked and mastered languages like Java, C#, C++, Erlang, Golang, etc... *Intermediate systems knowledge and understand what happens behind your code *Experience designing and implementing complex systems with multiple parts and technologies *Experience with application scalability, performance and reliability *Experience with application and system orchestration: understand where you code fits within the big picture. *You are ambitious: you want to learn, improve, try new roles… *You accept challenges: you’ll be happy to see our traffic doubling instead of being daunted :-) *Common sense and can get things done. *You are a good team worker. *You are able to explain technical issues to both technical and non-technical people.