Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Typeform as a Backend Engineer and contribute to our microservices written in GoLang. You will work closely with the Product Team to build secure and user-friendly features, improve code scalability and reliability, and participate in on-call rotations. This role requires experience in high-traffic distributed architectures, architectural documentation, and our core technologies (GoLang, cloud providers, and messaging systems). You'll also be involved in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and mentoring colleagues. Typeform values a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Requirements

• University degree in a related field
• Experience in a high-traffic distributed architecture
• Experience writing architectural documentation
• Experience with our core technologies: GoLang, Cloud providers, and Messaging systems
• Excellent written and spoken English skills

Responsibilities

• Contribute code to projects that require backend work (in Golang)
• Improve existing code bases to be more scalable and reliable
• React to monitoring alerts and triaging accordingly to resolve issues (even after hours)
• Propose solutions to code or architectural problems in a high-traffic environment
• Do Root-Cause-Analysis (RCA) exercises and lead/contribute to postmortems for incidents
• Help and train peers
• Be part of an on-call rota to react to any alerts our monitoring system raises during and outside office hours

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a remote company or a startup
• Previous working experience with Kafka, Terraform, Kubernetes, & Elasticsearch