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Senior Software Engineer (Go) at Proof - Remote (US Preferred)

Job Description

We're Proof, a startup in the legal tech industry. We’ve built a best-in-class legal services platform that is used by thousands of law firms, and growing over 10% month-over-month. We’re looking for talented individuals to join our team as we continue to scale and grow as a company.

What you’ll do:

• Play an integral role in the development of the Proof platform, working with a small but powerful team of engineers. You will not be a cog in a machine, and the work you do will directly impact the lives of tens of thousands of law firms, lawyers, paralegals, and individuals throughout the US, and eventually the world.
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure scalability, performance and alignment with standards and best practices
• Help the team define and maintain development practices
• Work in an agile programming environment
• Interface directly with the CTO
• Write code primarily in Go & JavaScript
• Build out new features & service offerings
• Refactor existing systems as we move towards a service-oriented architecture

What we’ll expect you to know on day one:

• 5+ years experience writing production-grade code in a modern programming language
• Extensive experience with at least one backend programming language. (e.g. Go, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Java). Specific experience with Go is a plus.
• Ability and willingness to learn and adapt to new languages and technologies
• Experience with or desire to work with service-oriented architecture
• Extensive experience with at least one modern frontend framework (e.g. React, Vue, Angular)
• Are a self-starter, take initiative, self-manage and require little day-to-day direction to be successful
• Proven understanding of REST APIs
• Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space and time
• Experience in taking ownership of features, while working with a team on short and long-running projects
• Experience writing software tests (e.g. integration tests, end-to-end tests, unit tests)
• You're excited to learn new technologies, languages, tools and best practices
• You're a proactive communicator; you communicate concerns and blockers early

Great to have, but not required:

• Knowledge and experience of event-driven architecture and message brokers (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka)
• Experience with DevOps / Kubernetes
• Experience with Laravel / Lumen
• Experience with React / React Native
• Practical experience with AWS, Terraform, Docker, DataDog
• Experience with large scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures
• Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies
• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code

Benefits:

• 100% remote, work from anywhere in the US
• Flexible working hours
• Clear path to grow your career into engineering leadership/management role
• Competitive paid time off
• Competitive salary & stock options
• Health care, vision, and dental