Golang Developer

Assignment description

We are an Agile development team using a really exciting technology stack to build a world-class messaging platform and we need first-class scalable backend infrastructure for real-time communications that our users can rely on. The ideal candidate is extremely focused on fostering team culture, proactively identifies problems, is a great communicator and understands that shipping quality code is more important than perfection. You'll help run standups, do code reviews, take on-call shifts, give feedback, collaborate on architecture and most importantly, write great code and help run high traffic infrastructure. We are looking for a developer who will stay with us long-term.

Tech stack: GoLang, GRPC, microservices, MySQL, Riak, RabbitMQ, Redis, Websockets, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Docker, Terraform

Responsibilities:

- Writing clean, high-quality, maintainable code

- Writing and maintaining automatic test suites

- Participate actively in code reviews

- Contribute to ideations on product features

- Contribute to architecture discussions

- Development of high-availability backend infrastructures

About the team

1 CTO & 3 backend developers.

Must haves

- At least 5 years of experience with Golang

- Good understanding of microservices architecture

- Experience developing and maintaining high-availability backend infrastructures

- Interest in and understanding of algorithms, data modeling and complexity

- Deep understanding of best practices like TDD

- Experience in building scalable databases

- At least Upper-Intermediate English level

Other requirements

- Strongly pragmatic, self-driven, and proactive in problem-solving

- Experience working in agile environments with structured delivery processes

- Excellent communication skills for remote and asynchronous collaboration