Golang Stream Jobs Paying 100,000 USD a Year

Job Description

Funding Circle brings together small businesses and investors in a way that is truly revolutionary. We're here to foster an environment where small business can thrive. Our online platform provides a marketplace where investors receive better returns and small businesses find lower rates. The driving force behind our product is our engineering team; we are building elegant, sustainable, and scalable infrastructure on a global scale, and we want you to be a part of it!

Our mission: to build a better financial world.

Prospectus:

Would you describe yourself as a creative and ambitious engineer who’s always ready to take on the next cutting-edge technology and build scalable infrastructure? If your answer is yes, you’re going to fit right in with our team.

We’re looking for a passionate and efficiency-driven Senior Platform Engineer who can build automated, testable, and repeatable projects. We are a group of passionate engineers whose bread and butter is learning new technologies and fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment - we’re looking for partners in crime who feel the same.

• Be an automator: we’re using cutting-edge technology to facilitate automation and repeatability. We practice continuous integration and are working towards continuous deployment.
• Be a builder: our engineers are building and expanding our highly-available architecture to handle over $2 billion in loans originated through our pipeline.
• Be a game changer: we’re building infrastructure that has a competitive edge; we’re using technologies like Docker in production on top of Mesos, Kubernetes, and Apache Kafka.
• Be a collaborator: you’ll be expected to forge deep bonds with your business counterparts to truly understand the needs of our Borrowers and Investors. We work in an Agile environment including pair programming and daily standups.
• Be a teacher: be generous with your time and expertise to continue the development of our world-class engineering team.

Our ideal candidate has:

• Expert knowledge of working in cloud-based infrastructure (AWS)
• Experience using containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)
• Expert knowledge of auto scaling, load balancers, proxy servers, DNS, CDNs and WAFs
• Capable of architecting security and compliance best practices into global cloud infrastructure
• At ease troubleshooting in complex environments using monitoring and logging tools (such as New Relic, Datadog, Graylog and Kibana)
• Knowledge of Ansible, Terraform & Go.
• Experience with build tools (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI), and artifact repositories (e.g. Quay.io),
• Experience working with RDBMS (e.g. PostgreSQL)
• Knowledge of using distributed stream processing platforms specifically Apache Kafka
• Experience in requirements identification, solution analysis, and product selection
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Brownie points for:

• Contributions to open source projects
• Advanced networking experience
• Security experience
• Experience with microservices and event-driven architecture
• Experience with data warehouses
• Past experience working in a highly-regulated industry
• Experience working in global companies with multiple geographies

Why Join Us?

Happy employees are productive employees, that’s why we offer a hearty benefits package including:

• Our employees make our mission a reality, and we want you to share in the companies success by offering generous shares.
• Cool kit - Mac or PC
• Private healthcare, pension and healthcare cash back schemes
• Discounted onsite gym membership
• Learning and development through FC Academy
• Personal development funding
• Flexible working
• Free breakfast, barista coffee and discounted hot lunch at our Funderbar!
• We are a regular host of Meet-Ups and events.
• Company wide socials

At Funding Circle, we celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. We truly believe that diversity makes us better.

Job Description

Who We Are

We’re a small team of experienced engineers with diverse technical backgrounds. We’re passionate about driving our coworkers’ success and building the next generation of software tooling. If you want to work on distributed systems infrastructure and development practices or you have an entrepreneurial spirit and want to make something that your peers use every day, we’d love for you to join us. Tooling handles many different areas, so we’re building a diverse team with a wide range of expertise.

What We Do - We build shared infrastructure and tools to make engineering more productive, reliable, and cost effective. - We maintain several Segment Open Source projects. - We work in Go, Terraform and a bit of Node.js. - Read more about Segment’s infrastructure and how we use: distributed logging and secure secrets. Or, read our code: conf, ksuid, cwlogs, go-prompt, ecs-logs, chamber. - We manage the tooling and process around development environments, testing, CI, and deployment. - Read more on our blog about how we use: CI and Make.

Who we are looking for:

• You care about simple, practical, reliable, and secure software implementation and the kinds of process needed to produce it.
• You can research a messy, complicated problem and design an approach that makes working in that area easy and consistent.
• You empathize with the rest of your company, listen to them, and take pride in supporting their work.

Projects we’re working on:

• Per-Engineer Dev Environments
• Logging Pipeline Development
• AWS Rate Limit Monitoring
• Application Deployment Improvements
• Self-Hosted CI
• Incident Management Automation
• Large Scale JSON Stream Data Manipulation Tools
• Standardized Metrics and Alerting Infrastructure
• Consistent Runbooks and Documentation

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years experience as a software engineer, devops engineer, or site reliability engineer.
• You have experience with AWS, Docker, Go, Node.js, or Terraform.
• You are motivated to support your coworkers and make them productive.
• You are a self-directed problem solver.

Bonus

• Building tooling for distributed systems development.
• Working on or with a variety of engineering teams.
• Leading teams or projects.