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Job Description

Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust Fastly to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand. Founded in 2011, Fastly powers online destinations including Airbnb, GitHub, Alaska Airlines, Pinterest, Vimeo, The Guardian, The New York Times and Ticketmaster.

The worldwide cloud services market is projected to grow rapidly to $236 billion in 2020, according to Forrester, Inc. As more and more businesses move operations to the cloud, Fastly is well positioned to continue increasing CDN, cloud networking and cloud security market share with edge cloud services that reach beyond content delivery.

We’re building a better Internet. Come join us.

Distributed Systems - TLS / API Engineer

We’re looking for talented software engineers with experience in building resilient and distributed systems to join our team. This role is responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining the platform to deliver our core CDN configurations as well as our future Edge Cloud products. We have local offices in San Francisco, Portland and other locations. Remote workers are also encouraged to apply. Time zones with some overlap to North American time zones are preferred.

What You'll Do

• Contribute to the systems for managing DNS and TLS technology to minimize latency for delivering Fastly's services.
• Implement systems to allow Fastly's customers to control their own TLS and DNS configurations for how their requester traffic reaches Fastly.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of Fastly's latency-informed, topologically-aware DNS system.
• Support internal operational, analytical and customer-facing teams that depend on the DNS and TLS tooling.
• Build internet-scale, fault tolerant, well-instrumented services that enable Fastly's authoritative DNS services and TLS termination capabilities.

What We're Looking For

We value a variety of voices, so this is not a laundry list. You’ll be a good candidate if you have experience and/or interest in SOME of these:

• Maintaining and developing large-scale and/or global production systems
• Experience building APIs to handle complex or sensitive data with Go (or other languages) in an interdependent and heterogeneous environment.
• Experience with network data and networking data structures.
• Operational networking experience (e.g. DNS, routing protocols, packet diagnosis and latency analysis)
• Writing code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, profiling, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with online testing, integration testing, database and system profiling.
• Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)
• Understanding of authoritative DNS services, especially in an anycast environment.
• Experience working with geographically dispersed team: Previous remote work preferred.

Why Fastly?

• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customershave a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
• We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. In fact, 50% of our employees work outside of SF! An international remote culture is in our DNA.
• We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits like up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, options for free medical/dental/vision plans, and an open vacation program that enables our folks to take the time they need to recharge (some benefits may vary by location).
• We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
• We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply!

Job Description

HotelTonight makes it remarkably easy to book great hotels at amazing rates on your mobile device for tonight, tomorrow and beyond. Our goal is to be the premier and most loved way to book a place to stay and we’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help do just that.

We’re seeking teammates who want to set the standard, question the status quo, and want to keep learning. Part of the greater Product Development team, the Core Services team focuses on the back-end services and infrastructure that support iOS and Android features of the consumer facing app. We are a team of builders; we like to solve problems, take action, and work collaboratively with others to get stuff done.

This is a great opportunity for an engineer who is passionate about the product, thinks of the users, and wants to utilize the latest technologies to deliver industry-changing products. HotelTonight now allows users to book a hotel up to 100 days in advance - an exciting expansion for many reasons, but it’s also a significant change to our backend infrastructure. This means there are some big, challenging projects ahead for you and the rest of the Platform team to tackle.

You’ll have an immediate impact, ensuring that our APIs, infrastructure, and internal tools create a world class user experience and help HotelTonight on its mission to become the only hotel booking app you need on your phone.

Within 1 month, you will

• Familiarize yourself with our development workflow, tooling and tech stack
  
• Learn about the upcoming initiatives and projects you’ll be owning
  
• Release bug fixes and feature improvements to our production environment
  
• Actively participate in our code review process

Within 3 months, you will

• Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, designers, and domain experts to iterate on and improve core business logic and user-facing features
  
• Develop, modify, and maintain our e-commerce platform while optimizing for speed, user experience, and continued 99.99% availability
  
• Support critical production systems as part of our on-call rotation
  
• Leverage instrumentation to identify and diagnose performance bottlenecks
  
• Own the delivery and deployment of the services you build into our containerized production cluster

Within 12 months you'll do

• Lead end-to-end development of mission-critical features
  
• Work on managing and scaling the infrastructure that enables our services to process millions of requests per day
  
• Evaluate and experiment with new technologies and techniques that can be added to our tech stack to solve the trickiest of problems
  
• Work alongside other engineers to define the future of HotelTonight's core services

Why this opportunity is cool

• You’ll be able to directly contribute to and shape the systems that power HotelTonight’s marketplace
  
• You’ll work alongside and be exposed to senior leaders across the company; an opportunity to learn and grow from those around you
  
• You’ll work with other teams across the company on a wide range of projects, ranging from end-user-facing features to behind-the-scenes improvements to our bookings, payments, and notifications platforms
  
• You’ll help implement and refine best practices for deploying, monitoring, alerting, and performance testing critical services

What you will need to be successful in this role

• Extensive experience in software development working as a Backend Engineer
  
• Strong expertise in Ruby and RSpec (or similar) and an interest in other languages (e.g. Golang, Elixir)
  
• Working knowledge of relational databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL
  
• Familiarity with any of the following is a plus: AWS, Ansible, Docker, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Packer, RabbitMQ (or other queueing systems), Terraform, Redis
  
• Experience scaling and maintaining high-traffic, service-oriented production systems
  
• Ability to tackle broad, challenging problems in an analytical, pragmatic way
  
• Empathy for users, teammates, and other stakeholders
  
• Love working as part of a team and continuously strive for self-improvement

Perks & Benefits

• An official Best Places to Work (2 years running!)
  
• The opportunity to define mobile commerce and change the way people book travel
  
• A people-focused organization dedicated to making sure you're challenged, learning, growing, and recognized for all the great work you do
  
• The camaraderie of a driven, agile team that is building something disruptive
  
• Excellent health, dental, vision and 401k plans, and stock options too
  
• Fun stuff - quarterly travel stipend, flexible time off, subsidized cell phone plans and fitness memberships, and the opportunity to spin the HT Roulette wheel to win a spontaneous weekend getaway!

Job Description

What do we do?

Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payments infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers, taking away 100% of the pain of payments fragmentation. It's faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better.

We have over 230+ talented employees serving over 3000 software sellers in 245 territories globally. Backed by investors including FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North, Paddle aims to define the next wave of B2B SaaS leaders.

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be helping to drive our product and engineering department forward, working on different parts of the Paddle ecosystem and helping our Software Sellers sell their products on a platform they trust and rely on.

Our Engineering Department is split into 8 cross functional Product teams, along with an SRE and Data team.

Our Product teams are made up of an Engineering Manager, a Product Manager and between 4 - 8 engineers (mix of backend and frontend), depending on the demands of the team.

You are empowered to use the right tech for the job and you’ll have the freedom to input into what technology and tooling are used and educate the rest of your colleagues accordingly.

Our Tech

• Go for our new services
• PHP and Laravel for our legacy system
• Docker in production and local development
• gRPC for internal services running on AWS Fargate
• AWS lambda for event-based services
• AWS SQS for our asynchronous message queues
• MySQL and DynamoDB for persistent data storage
• Redis for key/value store
• Terraform and Cloudformation for infrastructure management

What you'll do

• Develop high traffic APIs used by hundreds of thousands users per month
• Engineer high-performance background workers for consuming queues
• Practise DevOps, you’re responsible for getting your code to production and supporting it
• Use the latest AWS services available to run your code
• Help design a stable platform to support phenomenal growth
• Mentoring and coaching other engineers
• Play a part in an agile team, either kanban or scrum as needed
• We'd love to hear from you if
• You have a development background with Go
• You have experience designing and building systems to handle high traffic at scale in a cloud-based environment in AWS
• You enjoy collaborating with our technical and non-technical departments
• You proactively find ways to improve the code and team processes
• You have a strong understanding of the development process - from design through to deployment, maintenance, and what that means for day-to-day development
• You take pride in what you build
• You are interested in what new tools and techniques you could introduce to us!

Why you’ll love working at Paddle

We are a diverse team of 230 (and growing!) people who care deeply about enabling a great culture which is inclusive no matter your background. We celebrate our diverse group of talented employees and we pride ourselves on our transparent, collaborative, friendly and respectful culture.

We live and breathe our values, which are:

*** Exceptional Together * Execute with impact * Better than Yesterday**

We offer a full suite of benefits, including attractive salaries, stock options, pension plans, private healthcare, a health & wellbeing platform and coaching sessions.

We are a ‘digital-first’ company, which means you can work remotely or from an amazing office if you prefer, or even a bit of both! We offer all team members unlimited holidays and 4 months paid family leave regardless of gender. We love our casual dress code, annual company retreats and much more. We truly invest in learning and will help you with your personal development, from constant exposure to new challenges, an annual learning stipend to regular internal and external training.

Equal opportunities

We believe in having diverse teams in which everyone can be their authentic self is key to our success. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply and we don't discriminate based on race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, marital status, disability or age. Our office is wheelchair friendly and we are a family-friendly employer​.

Job Description

I. Job Summary | Major goals and objectives.

Meredith Corporation is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to continue building its advertising platform. As a key member of our development team, you will be responsible for extending, architecting, documenting, improving and building all our Backend Services, as well as some Frontend services, including our proprietary Ads Server, Analytics, Tracking and Reporting Systems. Your first project in this role will consist of integrating our different Shopper Backend Services with multiple Big-Box Retailers to handle, build and deliver meaningful context-based Ads across our own-and-operated network in real time.

II. Essential Job Functions

20%

Participate in build out of proprietary Ads Serving platform for Backend and Frontend services.

20%

Implement code, write unit tests and participate in code reviews.

30%

Design and develop software in Go.

10%

Design and develop software in TypeScript and VueJS.

20%

Analyze business processes to identify product improvements.

100%

III. Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements | All must be met to be considered.

Education:

Bachelor in Computer Systems or equivalent years of professional experience.

Experience:

• Excellent problem solving and communication.
• Strong experience in Algorithms, Object Oriented Programming and Design Patterns.
• Strong experience in Testing: mocking and stubbing.
• Strong experience using Git.
• Strong experience with data modeling and SQL (PostgreSQL 10.5+, MySQL 5.2+).
• Experience with NoSQL databases (Key Value, Document-Oriented, etc).
• Experience building and designing highly scalable distributed systems.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced and agile environment.
• Constantly seeking ways to improve the platform.

Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience with the Go toolchain (mod, build, install, test, cover, etc).
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (Cloudformation, MSK, Elasticache, Redshift, EMR, Kinesis, ECS, etc).
• Experience with HTML, CSS/SASS, AJAX, TypeScript and VueJS 2.0.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers.
• Experience with NewRelic, Amazon Cloudwatch and Splunk.
• Experience with OpenAPI 2.0 (fka Swagger).
• Experience with Docker.
• Advertising Experience.

It is the policy of Meredith to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Meredith will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

Job Description

Golioth is seeking a highly skilled CTO to architect and build the first version of our IoT platform. At Golioth, we are building the Kubernetes for IoT (vision What is Kubernetes for IoT?), based on a culture of security and a great developer experience. Currently, the IoT industry is lacking a common infrastructure to bring the 25+ billion IoT endpoints (that will be live by 2021) online. We plan to fix that.

At this phase of the product, you will be responsible for defining the initial architecture and at the same time executing the first version. You should be a strategic thinker, experienced and product-focused architect who is excited about the opportunity to get your hands dirty writing code. We’re cloud native, so you should enjoy working with containers, Kubernetes and Go!

You will work directly alongside the CEO and will act as both a technology and business expert, making decisions that will impact the current and future operations of the company.

We’re based in San Francisco and looking for a CTO in the Bay Area.

Responsibilities

• Setting a vision for how technology will be used in the company by making foundational technical and architectural decisions.
• Implementing the core set of services and cloud infrastructure based on product and business requirements.
• Ensuring that the resourcing of talent, infrastructure and services meet the company's short and long-term needs.
• Outlining the goals and milestones for research and development.
• Creating timelines for the development and deployment of all technical services and components.
• Making executive decisions on behalf of the company's technological requirements.
• Manage contractors in non-core domains, such as embedded firmware and frontend development.
• Managing technology budgets and time frames.

Requirements

• 6+ years working in a technological role, 8 years preferred. You should have experience architecting distributed systems, deploying at-scale production services and have contributed meaningfully to open source projects.
• Advanced understanding of cloud native technologies, such as containerization, virtualization, cloud networking & Kubernetes.
• Experience deploying production services & infrastructure.
• IoT, hardware and/or networking experience preferred but not required - you’ll learn a lot here!
• Experience in Go preferred, or an interest to learn.
• Experience interviewing and hiring engineers.

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced backend software engineer to join our exceptional team of distributed systems engineers. We have embarked on a mission to create highly-scalable and performant micro-services that handle tera-bytes of data and analytics that feed into beautifully designed custom data visualizations. You will be responsible for architecting, implementing and testing new and existing systems that power our flagship product and help humanize the way content marketers interact with customers. Most importantly, your leadership as a senior and experienced member of the team will become an example for others to follow, and you will help shape and define our engineering practices and craftsmanship.

Our Engineering Values

• Collaboration: We believe that engineers do their best work when working together in cohesive teams.
• Excellence: We believe in doing things the "right way" rather than the "fast way", and holding ourselves to a high standard of excellence.
• Growth: We believe engineers do their best work when they are constantly growing, learning, and changing.
• Communication: We believe in combining empathy with openness and honesty to set clear expectations and hold each other accountable.
• Impact: We believe we're making the world a better place by empowering marketers to really help their customers rather than just sell stuff.

What you'll be doing

• Writing beautiful API documentation for all the services you and the team builds for consumption by other developers (we use Swagger).
• Design and architect scalable services that are both highly available and performant.
• Breaking down product requirements into manageable stories and delegating work to team members.
• Refactoring and evolving existing distributed systems to make legacy systems anew.
• Collaborating with other functions of the business and engineering department to ensure successful delivery of software.

Who you are:

• A bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
• 8+ years working in backend technologies in addition to Java such as Scala, Python, Golang or a combination of
• 8+ years working in databases such as MySQL, Postgres or other RDBMS systems
• 8+ years working with cloud-hosting and deep understanding of AWS, Google Cloud or Azure
• 3-5+ years working with Docker containers and deep understanding of the internals of how containers work
• 3-5+ years working with non-relational databases such as Cassandra or Dynamo
• 3-5+ years building and deploying containers into managed clusters with Kubernetes or equivalent
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Proven professional experience working with non-technical business functions
• You enjoy collaborating with product management teams to ensure the best quality product is shipped out the door
• You have a keen appreciation for usability and understand your users come first when designing systems

Why You Should Join

At Conductor, we are looking for engaged and passionate engineers that can raise the bar. There is a tremendous opportunity here to have immediate impact in the day-to-day and affect the company's success and growth. We all share in the same values and push each other to meet these standards.

We are made up of a diverse group of people from all backgrounds and include a team of exceptional engineers in Kyiv as well. Wherever you are from, you will find a common ground here for continuing to push forward your career and make a difference in this industry.

Conductor, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

About Conductor

Conductor’s search and content intelligence platform helps marketers create and optimize content to improve visibility online.

The technology generates customer intent insights that lead to compelling content, increased traffic, and higher organic marketing ROI. Customizable dashboards and workflows guide marketers through the content creation process, empowering them to measure, refine, and demonstrate the effectiveness of their SEO and content marketing efforts.

In addition to its SaaS platform, Conductor offers a suite of services and support including site audits, site migrations, and managed services that empower in-house marketing teams and digital marketing agencies to drive results and put their customers' needs first.

Conductor's forward-thinking customers include global and emerging enterprise brands like Citibank, Salesforce, ClassPass, and WeWork.

Job Description

The City3.0 platform will be the next generation of management software for regulatory agencies, businesses, and service providers.We will be taking a modular approach with a microservice architecture to help speed development and make future modules for potential new business units easy to connect in.

As part of the development team, you will be responsible for helping to build this new application from data model to API, as well as interfacing with other teams to gather feedback and demonstrate new features.

• Build new services in Golang to meet business needs
• Define appropriate APIs for interacting with other services
• Create new data models and modify existing ones and be comfortable generating reports that can cross multiple services
• Collaborate with other remote members of the company via Slack, Zoom, Trello, and other online tools

Experience Requirements:

• 5+ years of web services industry experience
• Strong Go language knowledge
• Proficient in SQL
• Experience building systems in Go, microservice experience a plus
• Experience with Linux / Unix. Windows experience a plus
• Understanding of web security standards
• Familiarity with frontend development (JS, React, Vue) a plus
• Ability to work on and with a distributed team
• Ability to work independently between team meetings
• Strong communication skills
• A desire to collaborate on new services and share knowledge as needed
• Not afraid to dive into existing code bases (not in Go) to discover how something is done or modify them to work as a backend in the new system

Job Description

THE ROLE:

As a well-rounded software engineer, you should definitely be the type that appreciates diversity in your day, and challenges outside of your comfort level!

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Designing a deterministic lifecycle workflow for our next product offering.
• Writing core platform code for a new feature, and unit tests for functionality.
• Leading discussions on new development and gathering requirements from business users for new features.
• Refactoring and improving existing code for performance and simplicity.
• Build tools to help our internal business partners better perform their jobs
• Researching additional ideas, you may have to improve the product/platform overall and sharing with the team.
• Interacting with customers and/or sales on a bug in the software, quickly resolving it, and coordinating across the team to push a fix.
• Working with other engineers and discussing quirks in network protocols and network interconnection which translate rapid API changes.

WHAT YOU BRING:

The right candidate will have an abundance of hard-core programming skills, have solid instincts for API usability and design patterns. You are probably a full-stack developer who naturally gravitates towards work on a product core. You know how to sacrifice algorithmic elegance for getting it done on deadline. More specifics include:

• Extensive experience with Go in large applications developed in a team environment
• Expert unit tester
• Experience building tools and applications used by internal company users
• Extensive experience with the HTTP protocol and developing and using RESTful APIs
• A solid understanding of OO programming paradigms
• Experience with working in globally distributed systems
• Experience using NoSQL data stores like Cassandra
• Be completely at home on any nix command line and building your own tools
• Very comfortable using Git in a team environment (i.e. pull-requests, branch management, rebasing)
• Experience working in an environment leveraging remote communication collaboration tools like Slack, Zoom etc
• Never being afraid to venture boldly where none have gone before and develop code where there are no previous libraries to draw from

Preferred Experience

• Any experience interacting with physical world equipment - industrial, medical, etc
• SQL experience.

Work Experience

The right candidates will most likely have a strong background working in large scale data center, compute or storage environments, with a proven track record of completing projects on time in spite of obstacles.

About PacketFabric

PacketFabric is the connectivity cloud. We built a global, 50+Tbps carrier-class optical network that is completely automated and consumable on-demand like SaaS, so enterprises can connect the core of their hybrid and multi-cloud architectures and grow their digital business.

We offer private and secure point-to-point, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and custom connectivity services that you can provision in minutes via our self-service portal or programmable API. We offer flexible consumption of our services, with month-to-month or longer terms, or even usage-based for bursting and disaster recovery.

PacketFabric was recognized with the “2020 Fierce Telecom Innovation Award for Cloud Services,” named one of the “10 Hottest Networking Startups of 2020” by CRN, a Futuriom 40 Top Private Company, and a “2020 Cool Vendor in Enhanced Internet Services and Cloud Connectivity” by Gartner.

PacketFabric is a distributed, fully remote team with people living and working all over the world.

What PacketFabric Offers

• Remote first, globally distributed team.
• The chance to disrupt the entrenched telecommunications infrastructure industry.
• A supportive and optimistic team that likes to learn from each other.
• A product development pipeline that’s constantly pushing new features and enhancing the quality of existing products.
• The opportunity to work with many different industries and customer types.
• A small company culture.
• Great health, dental, and 401(k) for US residents.

What PacketFabric Doesn’t Offer

• Lack of direction: we maintain a clear roadmap and product pipeline.
• A commute: no hours wasted in megaregion rush hour traffic.
• A dress code: a robe and slippers is acceptable attire any day of the week

Job Description

The Company

Founded in 2015, Phil is a San Francisco-based Series D health-tech startup, pioneering a software therapy deployment platform, offering pharmaceutical manufacturers a modern alternative to traditional access, affordability and distribution options. Through its digital stakeholder experiences, patient access services, market access solutions and distribution models, pharma manufacturers are able to deliver affordable and timely therapy access to patients. For more information on Phil, visit https://phil.us/

Job description

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join our growing team and help build and scale our backend workflow engine/platform

The Job

• Design and implement a rule-based workflow engine that handles complex prescription management and processing logic
• Develop tools and algorithms to test and measure the performance of the workflow engine
• Work closely with product managers to understand business problem, help them with technical feasibility of the implementation, requirement validation, and review the designs as well as business flows
• Design, implement, test, and launch Phil's backend services and API platform for multiple consumer apps.
• Work collaboratively with remote Dev and QA teams reviewing implementation and answering queries about the platform. -Strong motivation to clean technical debt keeping an eye on new business flows, evolving requirements, and platform scalability and robustness
• Deliver performant, reliable, scalable, and secure code
• Full stack development with knowledge of javascript frameworks like React, Angular etc a plus.

Requirements

• Experience building rules engine-based processing and or workflow management systems
• Experience building and maintaining secure, end-to-end systems and services using any language. Experience in golang and MongoDB prefered
• Deep understanding of algorithms and efficient data structures
• Experience working with all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle – ranging from architecture and design to implementation and testing.
• Strong critical thinking, debugging and problem solving skills
• Experience building systems and services for health-tech company is preferred
• Sense of ownership: you would develop, manage, and evolve the core logic of Phil platform and features
• Strong interest in understanding the underlying business and the problem we want to solve using technology

Benefits

• Ground floor opportunity with one of the fastest-growing startups in health-tech
• Solve a problem that matters: be part of a company that uniquely leverages technology to bring wellness to all of its stakeholders
• Competitive compensation (commensurate with experience) including meaningful stock options
• Full benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• 401(k) contribution opportunity

Job Description

This position is open to candidates in the US and Canada with work authorization. We do not sponsor H-1B visas or green cards.

We’re The Wild, and we’re passionate about collaboration and the power of technology to transform the way we work together. We’ve built a virtual workspace that allows architecture and design teams to collaborate at human scale in virtual and augmented reality.

Are you a proficient Go developer that loves building at scale? Are you looking for a product that is exciting to work on, in an industry that will define the future? Whether you started in the cloud or migrated there during your career, we’re looking for someone like you to join our experienced team building the next generation of virtual collaboration tools.

You’ll spend your time architecting and building robust, performant systems running on cloud providers and utilizing cloud services. You’ll work across teams to anticipate backend requirements for upcoming product and engineering needs. You’ll continually improve the security, performance and elegance of the system.

What You’ll Do

• Work with our integrated cloud/native team to build solutions addressing the core challenges of worldwide collaborative XR.
• Design and build scalable services to support upcoming features.
• Learn and improve our existing Go-based systems.
• Design secure, elegant APIs for client applications.
• All the standard stuff: Document architecture, write robust code, stay current on cloud services, evaluate frameworks, etc.

What You'll Use

• Go, Git
• AWS, GCP
• Firestore, MongoDB

About You

• You want to be excited about the product you’re building. We love what we’re creating at The Wild and want you to love it, too.
• You have commercial experience developing scalable cloud applications.
• You are a proficient Go developer.
• You are familiar with basic cloud services, encompassing compute, routing, scaling, storage, databases and functions.
• You are test- and data-driven and excel at understanding how things work to keep them working.
• You are self-motivated and self-directed.
• You’re eager to do your best work using all the tools you’ve gained through your career. We’re excited to see what you do!

You’re Unique

Everyone brings along their own special skills and we want to hear about it. Some examples:

• An interest in containers and clusters, particularly Kubernetes.
• An interest in transport and messaging - TCP/UDP, HTTP/gRPC/WebSockets, MQTT/WebRTC, etc.; you think about how large amounts of data move efficiently between machines.
• The application of machine learning to 3D geometry and positional data.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

We create experiences for people, not devices. We strive to create joy and allow our humanity to shine through our work. Among the things you will enjoy about working here:

• Competitive salary
• Stock options
• Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible vacation time and unlimited PTO
• Paid family/parental leave
• 401(k)

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive team here at The Wild. If you’re excited about this role, but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply. The Wild is an equal opportunity employer: we value and welcome diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Our goal is to create a community rich with cultural, social, and intellectual diversity.