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Senior Back End Developer Kalido London, United Kingdom £70,000 to £80,000 a year
January 2020
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
About the role
Kalido exists to help create a world where people and organizations can maximize potential through a global community of valued connections and opportunities. We passionately problem solve new ways to do this, no matter how difficult the challenge. Everyone on our team is a true product owner, responsible for ensuring excellence. We move fast (but thoughtfully), and are looking for a talented and impact-oriented Backend Developer to join us.
In this role, you will be responsible for: shaping architectural decisions and technology choices; building the infrastructure at the very heart of Kalido; and ensuring that it is secure, performant, easily deployable, scalable, cost-effective, and fit for purpose. In doing so, you will shape the company, and our collective ability to impact the world.
As part of a startup, your responsibilities will vary, but on a day to day basis, you will:
Build Kalido’s back end
Collaborate with management, design, and platform-specific development teams to define, design, and build new functionality as required
Design, build and refactor our architecture as we evolve, with maintainability and efficient abstraction in mind
Verify, test and deploy new builds
Inspire and lead other developers, ensuring their growth
Mentor other developers to help them grow, and to ensure our design and development efforts and ethos remain aligned
Maintain Kalido’s back end
Troubleshoot, debug and enhance the existing codebase and DevOps deployments, driving towards a continuously more performant, higher quality, and responsive experience
Monitor and analyse system performance, and own our uptime
Refine and extend our administrative and performance monitoring tools
Optimize our use of processing power, memory, storage, bandwidth, and third-party API calls in our backend infrastructure
Plan for the future
Propose, evaluate, select, and adopt new technologies when needed
Ensure that you are on top of changes to critical parts of our infrastructure (e.g. AWS, GRPC, Postgres, Redis, Envoy, RabbitMQ, etc.) so that we can adopt newer versions without affecting performance or functionality
Shape our API and third party integration strategy
Proactively suggest changes to balance cost, scale, security, performance, deployability and utility
Load test regularly, and plan for the next 1-2 orders of scale
What we are looking for
We value inclusion, impact, transparency, generosity, and teamwork. You can read more about our values and what they mean to us here: https://www.kalido.me/our-mission/. We are looking for someone who: shares our philosophy; is capable and excited about the role; strives for personal and professional excellence; and wants to make a meaningful difference through their work.
This opportunity is for you if you are:
Experienced (have 5+ years experience of designing and building commercial back end systems), with a strong analytical mind, and an ethical approach
Comfortable with the fundamentals of computer science and information architecture, including knowledge of data structures, algorithms, their complexity, their tradeoffs, and their implementation (e.g. trees, graphs, sorting algorithms, and their various Big O implications)
Someone who has led or been part of small teams of developers through the entire software development lifecycle, in maintaining and continually improving a lean software development process, and in delivering high quality code reviews, with a toolbelt of best practices for professional software development
Excited about thoughtfully building scalable platforms
Experienced with cloud infrastructure providers (Google and AWS)
Experienced with developing on and for the Linux operating system
Knowledgeable about systems architecture choices and performance trade-offs, database design and extensibility
Capable of writing complex and performant SQL queries for Oracle and Postgresql
Comfortable developing and maintaining systems written in Golang, Javascript and Python, using unit testing, and managing version-controlled development using continuous integration and devops tools (e.g. Travis). Working knowledge of a wide variety of languages and frameworks is preferred.
What we offer
Working at Kalido means working with a solid startup that has been around since 2015. We balance our drive for delivery with flexible working arrangements, generous maternity and paternity leave, weekly team lunches, and the chance to truly shape the culture you work in. You will never run out of fascinating problems to solve and will have incredible opportunities to work with a diverse team that cares about your growth.
About Kalido
By helping everyone to easily create stronger communities and more meaningful real-world connections, Kalido’s goal is to level the playing field of opportunity. We are redefining the way people connect in their neighbourhoods, inside companies, at events, in schools, in alumni groups, in co-working spaces, and doing so throughout their lives. In August 2019 we closed a 5m USD Series A, and are backed by HCL, a global IT player with a 22 bn USD market cap, and co-founded by the #3 core team member and early investor at Alibaba. If you’re excited about empowering individuals, helping organisations to work better together, and creating a platform to power the future of work, this is the place to do it. To learn more, visit https://www.kalido.me.
How to apply
If being a Lead Software Developer at Kalido sounds like something that leverages your skills and ignites your passion, we want to get to know you. Drop us an email with your CV (including a link to your portfolio and relevant repositories) and a cover letter, addressed to Martyna at careers@kalido.me.
In order to be a great workplace and build a great product, we believe we must strive to truly represent and support this diverse world. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of age, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, parental status, marital status, disability, religion, or belief.
Software Engineer MongoDB Dublin, Ireland €70,000 to €140,000 a year
December 2019
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
The Kubernetes team develops software to setup and operate MongoDB on any infrastructure. We are in charge of the MongoDB Operator, a Kubernetes service that allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in minutes.
We currently have customers on both public cloud providers and on-prem. We ensure and test on public cloud infrastructures. We have a short feedback loop with our customers that enables us to work on features that are used at scale as soon as we release.
A great fit for this role will
Love coding and building reliable features
Be able to extensively collaborate with other engineers
Be flexible! You'll be joining a small team, so must be willing to take on a wide variety of responsibilities, learning as you go
Be able to work in a fast paced environment
Responsibilities
Design, implement, test and release features for our Kubernetes Operator
Work in an agile team environment with a close relationship with the customer
Incrementally ship elements of complex projects
Apply our core values to your work
Assist our Ops & Support Engineers troubleshoot operational issues with customers
What is in it for you
Generous compensation package (top-range salary: we pay in the top 95% percentile and our package includes equity and generous benefits)
You'll be joining a team that is diverse (no 2 people are from the same country) and highly collaborative, we value shipping fast and clean
Opportunities to learn on the job (time to upskill in new technologies)
High level of independence in your day to day work
Requirements
Experience in a modern programming language: Go, Python, Ruby, C++, Rust…
Experience working with and testing distributed systems
OmniTier, founded in 2015, is a multidisciplinary team of developers, bioinformaticians, and memory storage engineers, committed to big data challenges, especially in the life sciences. Our founding team was instrumental in developing many of the flash memory technologies widely used today. Our passion is utilizing this memory technology to create customized, accelerated software solutions for genomics, edge computing, and machine learning analytics.
We are backed by some highly esteemed corporate and angel investors. We have a very open and collaborative environment, with a strong focus on delivering innovative solutions. We are seeking people who enjoy the startup culture and are innovative, focused, and committed to excellence. We respect passion and enthusiasm for solving real-world problems.
The company has offices in Milpitas, California and Rochester, Minnesota.
Responsibilities
• Architect, develop and test high performance scalable solutions for bioinformatics.
• Design and implement new algorithms and schemes to leverage flash-based storage.
• Develop tools to deploy and manage large distributed systems and to monitor and improve system efficiency.
• Integrate and test user-facing features using front-end libraries.
• Collaborate with other teams to optimize solutions.
Basic Qualifications
• Minimum B.S. degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; M.S. a plus.
• 3+ years of programming experience in C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Python or similar programming language
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with industry or academic research in building large-scale distributed compute/storage systems.
• Domain knowledge in fault tolerance and data replication.
• Good understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
Software Engineer- Backend FuboTV New York City, United States $130,000 to $160,000 a year
October 2018
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Who are we?
fuboTV is a rapidly growing video streaming startup (backed by some of the world's largest media companies) that is reinventing live television for the cord cutting era.
Originally founded as a streaming Soccer service, we have grown and expanded our mission to providing the best live sports streaming experience on the planet.
Today we broadcast most NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL games, all important Soccer leagues, and a wide range of college and other sports. We also broadcast a wide variety of movies and entertainment including the entire FOX and NBC broadcast catalogs. fuboTV can be accessed on many different platforms, including web browsers, Android, iOS, tvOS, fireTV, AndroidTV, Roku and Chromecast.
About the Role:
fuboTV is looking for exceptional Backend Software Engineers with a passion for crafting simple systems that solve complex problems.
As a Software Engineer on our Backend Services Team, you will get to build highly-available systems, ingest troves of data, and help power our cutting edge experiences on Android, iOS, Web, Roku, and Xbox. fuboTV's backend team has a unique opportunity to build and continuously improve greenfield services.
We are looking for Software Engineers who care about code quality, uptime, performance, continuous deployment, SOLID design principles, test-driven development, and agile (with a lowercase “a”) methodologies.
Our tech stack:
Go/Golang with govendor
Docker and Kubernetes
Redis, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL
fuboTV Software Engineers have the following responsibilities:
Architect, design, develop, test, maintain and improve software systems
Collaborate with other engineers and members of the fuboTV team to determine priorities and best practices, and refine functional requirements
All fuboTV Backend Software Engineers must:
Have 4+ years of experience in delivering working software
Write clean, well-tested code
Be familiar with REST APIs and SQL
Have mastery of at least one modern backend stack, with a willingness to learn new technologies and methodologies
Have an interest or experience in Go, message queues, and/or microservices
The ideal candidate will also:
Enjoy working in a fast-moving startup environment in which individual contributors are trusted and depended upon to set technical direction
Believe that work-life balance is a characteristic of highly functioning engineering teams
Enjoy learning new things and sharing knowledge with coworkers
Take the initiative in identifying and removing roadblocks
Be a pleasure to work with in a professional environment
Be comfortable giving and receiving honest feedback
Be unafraid of failure
Enjoy disrupting the status quo
Benefits:
fuboTV offers competitive salaries, excellent benefits, meaningful equity and unlimited PTO. At fuboTV, you will have the opportunity to personally influence what live media looks like after it goes through its next big transformation.
Golang Engineer Red Ventures London, United Kingdom $70,000 to $100,000 a year
October 2018
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
What You Will Do:
By the time you've reached the end of this paragraph, Red Ventures will have made countless API transactions, all thanks to the expertise of our Engineers. Instead of logging hours chained to a desk, our engineers have an active role in our business. As a Software Engineer on our team, you will build and maintain the RESTful services and FullStack applications and will play a key role in the development of our SaaS-based projects, such as live chat platforms, web analytics suites, live streaming dashboards, and more.
How We Work:
Iterate - Red tape doesn’t get in our way. We believe that "Speed Trumps Perfection" so we test and deploy daily.
Autonomy – Aspiring entrepreneurs succeed here because you will have full-ownership over your work from beginning to end.
Collaborate – Better than making the dream work, teamwork makes the code work. Through open work-space, Slack and peer reviews, our teams work together to build amazing solutions.
Innovate – With the belief that “Everything is Written in Pencil”, we encourage our teams to test new frameworks, learn new languages and challenge the “status quo” to make us better.
What You Need:
2+ years of recent server side experience in technologies such as C#, Golang, PHP, or Node
Experience in front-end technologies such as React, Angular and Polymer
Cloudy with a guarantee of AWS and Docker Containers
Experience with databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, etc.
Knowledge of unit-testing (TDD/BDD tool i.e. Jasmine, Mocha, Protractor)
Understanding of how to build and consume REST APIs
Building modular and scalable code
A sense of humor and thirst for knowledge
Who We Are:
Red Ventures is a leading digital, consumer-choice platform based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Through deeply integrated brand partnerships and consumer-facing assets, Red Ventures connects online customers with products and services across high-growth industries including home services, financial services, and healthcare. Founded in 2000, Red Ventures has more than 2,700 employees in offices across the Carolinas, Seattle, Washington, London and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
This position will be located in London, England. We are looking for a local engineer to work on our start up team.
Swarm is a system of peer-to-peer networked nodes for a decentralized storage and communication service.
Swarm could shape the future towards a self-sovereign global society and permissionless open markets. On Swarm, applications run autonomously yet securely in a planetary-scale deployment and execution environment.
Bee is a Swarm client implemented in Go. It’s the basic building block for the Swarm Network.
Bee provides low level constructs for file storage, feeds, key-value stores and untraceable communication, through solid, well-tested code delivered in an agile manner.
Key technologies are Go, libp2p, protobuf, leveldb, and go-ethereum, as well as various cryptographic libraries.
Your role:
This role expects the candidate to function as a large node operator, conducting testing and immersing themselves in the responsibilities of node operators. This requires experience in a comparable QA position, as well as an interest in DevOps-related areas. However, we consider motivation and initiative-taking to be the most crucial qualities that the ideal candidate should possess.
The responsibilities of the role:
Writing and executing end-to-end test scenarios on testnet and mainnet in order to assure performance and reliability.
Submit detailed bug reports and issues to our developers' team.
Give the green light to the developers' team to proceed with a release.
Be an active part in shaping the way our products are built by analyzing how functionality, user experience and performance could be improved.
This role is an excellent opportunity, as in the future we expect the QA team to grow and therefore this role could open the possibility of becoming the QA team lead.
Your profile:
* You have at least 3 years of hands-on experience in a similar position.
* Solid understanding of distributed systems
* Experience in executing manual and automated tests interacting with the API.
* Be able to set up different environments to perform automated testing on them.
* You are familiar with the blockchain ecosystem.
* Experience in managing panels and dashboards for monitoring,
* Familiarity with Ethereum is a must.
* You can express yourself fluently in English, both verbally and in writing.
* You manage your own time effectively and respect time constraints.
* You like to take initiative.
* You are available around CET timezone.
We appreciate:
* You are familiar with Golang.
* Exposure to infrastructure-related tasks (will be needed to set up environments).
* Familiarity with Grafana, Loki and Prometheus
* General acquaintance with cryptographic concepts.
* Experience with the Javascript ecosystem.
We offer/Team perks:
* An open, flat and transparent work environment
* 100% remote-friendly
* Flexible working hours
* We care about our swarm: Incentives through BZZ, our token
To apply, please send your CV and GitHub repo to talent@ethswarm.org.
Reports to: Engineering Manager
Location: Remote, US and Canada only
Compensation Range: $135,000 to $170,000 base plus bonus and equity
What We Do:
Founded in 2015 as a fully remote company by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress was built on a simple premise: to force hackers to earn every inch of their access.
Today’s cyber-attacks aren’t limited to large organizations with the security tools that can ward off threats. Hackers don't discriminate and will find a way to penetrate any vulnerability in any size business, which is why Huntress focuses on protecting those small to midsize businesses that make up the backbone of our economy.
Huntress stops hidden threats that sneak past preventive security tools by utilizing our award winning security platform and expert human threat hunters through dynamic products including Managed EDR, MDR for Microsoft 365, and Managed Security Awareness Training.
Join the hunt and help us stop hackers in their tracks!
What You’ll Do:
The Huntress team is looking for a senior engineer who has experience writing software that interfaces with the Windows Operating System at a low level. This engineer will be responsible for developing applications that communicate from our customers’ Windows systems to our web portal to provide our threat operations team with critical threat-hunting information.
Responsibilities:
* Build features for a Windows application that interfaces with various low-level windows APIs on Windows to collect data and send it to our SaaS application
* Integrate our endpoint application with our backend SaaS web application’s REST APIs for managing state and providing information that is used for threat hunting, paying particular attention to low resource usage on Windows hosts
* Collaborate with QA and DevOps to use our end-to-end testing framework to test our agent and its interactions with our web portal
Rewards:
* The opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology
* Training in a field that is fast-growing and in demand
* A work environment with a high bar, low stress, and no politics. We are software engineers, not coders.
* We leverage our peers to help fill our gaps and come up with the right solutions.
* We succeed or fail together as a team and value making others successful. Your manager will work hard to create a successful path forward for you in your career
What You Bring To The Team:
* Cyber security experience or a willingness to learn
* Able to communicate highly technical concepts clearly and concisely
* 5+ years of programming in Go
* 5+ years of experience writing low-level software that interfaces tightly with the underlying operating system
* Experience with Windows internals, Win32API, WMI, Powershell, and drivers is a bonus.
* Experience writing software for distributed architecture
* Ability to coach or mentor junior engineers
What We Offer:
* 100% remote work environment - since our founding in 2015
* Generous paid time off policy including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
* 12 weeks paid parental leave
* Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans
* 401(k) with 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution
* Life and Disability insurance plans
* Stock options for all full-time employees
* One-time $500 stipend to build/upgrade home office
* Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance
* $75 USD/month digital reimbursement
* Access to both Udemy and BetterUp platforms for coaching, personal, and professional growth
Huntress is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every single member of our team is valued, has a voice, and is empowered to come to work every day just as they are.
We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.
We do discriminate against hackers who try to exploit small businesses.
Accommodations:
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to accommodations@huntresslabs.com. Please note non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response.
If you have any questions about your personal data privacy at Huntress, please visit our privacy page.
Senior Backend Engineer GetHarley Remote (GMT +2) £70,000 to £100,000 a year
October 2023
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About GetHarley
GetHarley empowers people to look, feel and be their best selves — at every age. We are the first platform to combine technology with the human instinct and experience of a Clinician to deliver a deeply personalized and effective experience. Our company is transforming the skincare and healthy ageing experience as we know it.
Launched in May 2019, we are backed by top-tier venture capitalist firms, raising $52 million in our funding to date. Currently, at ~70 employees and growing, we are an award-winning, fast-paced business, growing triple-digits year over year with no market competition. Today, we empower over 1000 clinicians to increase their skincare product sales and drive patient loyalty via the GetHarley platform and we plan to grow this significantly in the coming year. We are looking for ambitious, dynamic, kind people to help us continue to scale.
Your Work
The Engineering & Product Team is a small but mighty team responsible for our entire tech platform. Our platform consists of an external facing website, a patient platform, a clinician platform and internal tools. We also plan to roll out a clinician app within the next year. We have key stakeholders across the entire business: sales, commercial, operations and marketing.
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help us bring to life delightful user journeys for the users of our platform while we build a platform architected for scale. In this role you will:
Collaborate with our Patient, Practitioner and Operations Teams to gather scope and refine requirements
Work closely with our Principal Engineers and other members of the Engineering & Product team
Participate in the ideation and own the full development cycle of new features with users in mind
Design, implement, test, and maintain ambitious solutions for scale and sustainability
Be part of the making of technical decisions that will have a direct impact in how our platform grows and evolve
Offer mentorship, code reviews, and clear documentation for fellow engineers
Experience
You will be a great fit if you have:
* Extensive experience developing modern, scalable, fault-tolerant, high-availability microservices.
* Experience building business software applying advanced patterns and techniques like Domain-Driven Design, CQRS, and Event-Driven Design.
* Hands-on experience, good understanding and value the best of the software practices like: maintainable codebase, trunk-based development, deep peer reviews, well-written unit and integration tests, rich CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, quality design documentation, etc.
* Expertise in Go or willing to learn it.
* Experience orchestrating and building containerized solutions using Docker.
* Knowledge of building services on cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or GCP.
* The ability to debug production issues across services at multiple levels of the stack.
* Experience in working closely with stakeholders, contributing to business requirements and solutions.
Location
This role can be remote or hybrid. Our office is based in Marylebone.
Why choose GetHarley
* It’s an exciting challenge. No two days are the same! We are an ambitious company that move fast and hustle
* You are making a difference. We are empowering our clinicians and supporting our patient's skincare goals
* Growth opportunities. We take personal development seriously and support your growth ambitions
What we can offer you
* 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
* Laptop and required software provided
* Wide range of growth opportunities in a scale-up environment
* Regular team socials
* Discounted skincare products
* Quarterly all-company GetTogether's including a countryside retreat!
* A birthday treat delivered to your door
* Dog friendly office located in Marylebone
* Seasonal merch drops
GetHarley is an equal opportunities employer ensuring that all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment process. We are determined that no applicant experiences discrimination on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, age, gender identity, ancestry, sexual orientation, veteran status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
We want to leverage this diversity by building an inclusive culture where everyone is respected, can be themselves and strive to be their best. That way we can build a better future for our employees, our patients and clinicians.
Have you been honing your innovation craft for years yet yearning for more complex challenges?
Does the opportunity to play a key role in the launch of a software platform with massive impact (for millions or even billions of people) excite you?
If you’ve answered with 3 resounding yeses, then we want to meet you!
What We Expect
We are a cutting-edge web3 infrastructure scale-up project seeking a few very talented developers who are not just looking for a job but want to be challenged to accomplish great things in an exciting venture.
We are the veterans of many successful startups and will put you on the accelerated learning curve toward your future success.
We are looking for an experienced Lead Golang Engineer who has designed, built, and operated high-throughput, highly resilient distributed data systems. This is a rare opportunity to work with a number of talented innovators on building a protocol that can change the data cloud landscape, e.g. decentralizing big data.
This core systems development position will challenge you to drive the design and development of significant system software components with a highly collaborative, test-driven, and rapid prototyping approach. In addition, you will definitely need to build upon your previous innovation and operational experience with highly scalable distributed systems that provide availability, reliability, and performance guarantees.
About Cere Network
Cere Network is the decentralized data protocol powering the future of web3 with trustless content sharing and cloud data interactions between apps, users, AI/ML, and (NFT) assets. Cere is backed by the world’s largest institutions and projects, including Binance Labs, Republic Labs, and Polygon.
Our Ethos
We look for a few things across all hires we make at Cere, regardless of role or team:
- We seek teammates who will thrive in our fast-paced work environment, where we default to methodical, simulation-driven, fast development iterations and a first-principle thinking mindset.
- We crave teammates with high standards and strong discipline, embracing a growth mindset to continuously learn and incrementally improve habits and processes.
- We require contributors to have excellent communication skills (esp. written), for everything must be well organized and tracked in Notion, Slack, Wiki’s, etc. We want autonomous, goal-oriented individuals who embrace transparency and accountability. No one wants to micro-manage others.
- We need good teammates who are generally cool people who want to be part of a great team & decentralized community where everyone truly helps and challenges each other to learn/grow by innovating together towards greater shared goals. Embracing the building of such a collaborative community is the only way we can sustain rapid innovation (and the only way to live/work, really).
Requirements:
- 5+ years of extensive programming experience with Golang.
- Deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience with concurrency, transactions and parallel execution.
- Experience with cryptography (encryption and signatures).
- Systematic problem-solving approach coupled with effective communication skills.
Tech stack:
- Golang
- libp2p
- BadgerDB
- Substrate-based blockchain API
- Crypto libraries for asymmetric encryption and signatures
A bit more about our Multinational, High-Performance (and primarily remote) Team
Join a highly talented multicultural team that is based all over the world. We have offices in San Francisco, New York, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Berlin, and several locations in Asia. As stated above, we make remote working possible by embracing our ethos, yet many teams also travel to meet in person every 1-2 months. We all want high degrees of autonomy and flexibility to make life and work fun, but transparency, accountability/ownership are the requisites.
Massdriver is an internal development platform that enables engineering teams to self-serve secure, production-ready infrastructure and services in their own cloud. We are looking for an engineer to lead our Golang team to build out core features and guide the future of our platform.
Platform engineering at Massdriver is different. We dogfood our product and the platform components you design are the components we expose to our customers to design their platform engineering environments. Your work is the product.
This role will own and design platform engineering components and their APIs including our provisioning engine, command-line tools, and our cloud query API. You will have the opportunity to work and contribute to a number of open source tools as well as design custom tooling.
Required experience:
Minimum of 3+ years of Golang development experience at startup / mid-sized companies
Effective communication skills, a positive attitude, and ability to give and receive constructive feedback through mentoring, pair programming sessions, and code reviews
Professional experience developing large, scalable backend applications
Strong understanding of system architecture and design; with consideration given to security, performance, and scalability
Owned the technical design of major features or projects and can articulate the reasoning behind trade-offs made in your designs
Experience with IaC tools like Terraform or Pulumi
Nice to have:
Experience with Kubernetes
Experience with open telemetry
Experience as an open-source maintainer
Responsibilities:
Developing in a high-security micro-services oriented environment
Event-driven systems development
Follow software development best practices to create maintainable and extensible software solutions
Open Source DevTools & CLI development
Work in an agile manner with transparency and fluid communication within the engineering team and across other teams in the company
Benefits:
Generous equity in an early-stage startup
Generous paid vacation with a required summer and spring break
100% covered health, medical, and dental insurance
401k w/ 4% matching
Half-day Fridays
Conference stipend
Flexibility. Massdriver is a remote-first company, and we want our employees to work the way that makes them the most productive.
Ownership. Our engineers have felt the pain of being prevented from trying new things by the overhead of DevOps. We empower our engineers to solve customer problems and add value.
Growth. As we build this core team of engineers, we are looking for the future leaders of our company that will help guide us as we scale.
About the interview
15-minute call w/ Cory (CEO)
30-minute discussion about the role and your experience w/ Dave (CTO)
1-hour coding session on an open source issue of your choosing. w/ Chris (COO)
Our coding interview is very different.
Our goal is for you to be the expert on the call and to see what it's like to work with you as the new employee:
Pick an issue on an open-source project in Golang that you think will take an hour or more.
Don't overthink picking the issue!
Feel free to familiarize yourself with the codebase, the issue history, the test suite - whatever you think you need to be the 'expert' during the interview. Don't share the issue with us.
At interview time, you are in the driver seat, you are the expert. Our goal is to see what it's like to work with you on our first day.
Please don't actually start work on the issue until the interview.
About Massdriver
Massdriver is changing the way software engineers provision, secure, and observe cloud infrastructure.
We aim to provide all of the benefits of infrastructure-as-code including parity, reproducibility, and auditability in a simple to use diagramming platform. No more fighting with HCL or spending hours reading cloud-specific API documentation. Now you can manage your infrastructure the same way you design it, at the drawing board.