Backend Golang Engineer at Wallet Connect - Remote / Berlin, Germany

Salary $85,000 to $100,000 a year
Company Website https://walletconnect.com
Published February 2023
Applicants This Week 5

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