We are currently looking for a skilled Senior Golang Developer to join the backend team of our Shop Applications Unit.
The Shop Applications Unit constantly improves the App, Mobile Website and Desktop Website. These big-scale products are each visited by several million people every month. Our highly scalable API updates and delivers our product data for our shop frontends in real-time – in peak times with up to millions of requests per minute! In that case, it truly matters if an API call takes 200ms or 50ms to ensure the best shopping experience. The team constantly challenges itself to raise the bar of what is “state of the art” and to provide the fastest and most efficient solutions to upcoming projects.
Challenges the team will be working on in the next months:
Working on a new backend API with the goal to unify core business logic to significantly reduce complexity in our frontends
Hardening and optimization of the API for production use
Finding solutions for challenges we face as we grow
What you will do
Develop a gRPC API in Go that encapsulates core business logic in a simple to use API for our frontend developers
Improve scalability and technical performance of our API and its response times
Work on a high-scalable product in the AWS ecosystem
Draft architectural decisions together with our Tech Lead and explore new technologies
Have a direct impact on team processes by regular agile retrospectives
Exchange your knowledge with other developers and be part of our ABOUT YOU TECH community
Who you are
You have 5+ years of experience in building complex backend API’s
You are very proficient in Go development
You have good knowledge of Elasticsearch and indexing products
You have experience in working with relational databases (e.g. MySQL) and key-value stores (e.g. Redis)
You write well-structured, efficient and maintainable code and actively keep the quality of the codebase in check
You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and enjoy building scalable distributed systems
You are used to working in an English speaking & agile environment
Nice to have:
You have experience in the AWS Ecosystem (Cloud Formation, Terraform, ElastiCache, etc.), Bamboo
You have experience with gRPC or GraphQL
You are familiar with centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions
You understand DevOps, Containerization and Cloud solutions
Benefits
Grow together with one of the fastest growing eCommerce companies in Europe
Flexible working times
40% discount on our online shop
Fresh fruits + drinks everywhere
Language courses (German & English)
Free sports courses & reduced price for gym membership
Subsidized public transportation ticket
Free choice of hardware and operating system (Mac, Windows, Linux) also for private usage
State-of-the-art tech stack running on AWS
Modern office in the city center of Hamburg
International working environment and English as company language
Company flats (subject to availability)
Agile work environment (MOVE) and cross-functional teams
Free access to Germany’s greatest developer conference code.talks
Company pension scheme
Free Laracasts and Egghead account
Help in relocation and VISA process
We are looking forward to receiving your application – preferably via our online application portal! Thus, we can ensure a faster process and for you it is very easy to upload your application documents.