Golang k8s Jobs in Germany

Job Description

WalletConnect is the open-source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps. Started four years ago, our mission is to make web3 accessible to everyone. Every month, millions of people use WalletConnect in over 200 integrations.

We’re looking for a backend golang engineer to join our team to build and scale our network. To help grow web3, we recently launched WalletConnect 2.0 with new features, including multi-chain support, a decentralized back-end, faster connections, and 10x performance and scalability. You will help us expand and scale our backend messaging infrastructure.

To learn more about our plans for 2.0, take a look at our recent presentation at EthCC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cBIw7lFNnU

Requirements

You will be responsible for building Golang messaging services. A main challenge is growing our services to scale for our millions of users across billions of websocket connections every month, as well as ensuring security and resiliency.

To help with your role, you will have the support of our devops team to deploy and manage our infrastructure, will work closely with our protocol and SDK teams, and have exposure to the full WalletConnect stack.

The ideal candidate is immersed in the best practices of golang at scale, messaging systems and Websockets.

Responsibilities:

• Building a microservice architecture based on Golang with scaling in mind
• Work with protocols such as Websockets, gRPC
• Help with monitoring by creating metrics with Prometheus and Grafana
• Develop unit and integration tests for core business logic
• Work closely with our devops team to manage and scale our infrastructure

Must have:

• 3+ years professional experience in software development at least one modern programming language, including Golang, TypeScript, C++, Java, or Rust.
• At least 1 year of professional Golang experience.
• Experience using Postgres, AWS, with demonstrable experience with systems engineering and automation.
• You have experience with network programming or distributed systems development
• Experience working on products at scale

Nice to have:

• Experience working on systems optimisation
• Experience with k8s or Nomad a plus
• Desire to learn more about Blockchain technologies or experience with PoS systems.
• Familiarity with operations/SRE and the concept of infrastructure as code
• Websocket experience

Benefits

What WalletConnect offers:

• Fully remote position with flexible timezone (CET/EST preferred)
• Competitive salary
• Company equity
• Coworking allowance

Job Description

At Upvest, we are building the financial infrastructure of tomorrow. Our vision is to create a world in which any asset can be owned and traded digitally by anyone, anywhere. Our bold long-term view is backed by Europe's largest tech VCs Notion Capital, Partech and Holtzbrinck Ventures. Today, we count 22 talented people from 10 different countries and we want to keep expanding our international Upvengers team.

Your mission:

We are seeking a full-time backend engineer to build a securities API for financial institutions, the first such API in Europe. Your goal is to take ownership of designing, developing and maintaining microservices written in Golang.

A greenfield project. Cutting edge technologies. No legacy code.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable systems. Using Microservice architecture powered by Docker, Kubernetes, Kuma service mesh and Kong as a Gateway.
• Build event driven applications using NATS
• Work on different aspects of our API-product portfolio as part of the development team
• Develop data processing and storing mechanisms
• Work on improving the reliability of our API tools, as well as developing innovative tools
• Work with an agile methodology: in the end of the 2-weeks sprint cycle we have a demo with retrospective to make our software delivering faster

Requirements:

• At least +2 years of experience and passion about Golang and distributed systems
• Fluency with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL, transaction isolation, performance optimization
• Fluency with event driven architecture and concurrent algorithms
• Be proactive in learning new stacks and have a high sense of taking ownership
• Excited to work in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment

Nice to have:

• Experience with Docker, k8s, understanding principles of a service mesh
• Experience with Monitoring and Tracing using opentracing/opencensus/opentelemetry/elastic APM
• Understanding of encryption algorithms and their application
• Experience working in Fintech domain