Remote Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Typeform as a Senior Backend Engineer and contribute code to microservices written in GoLang, utilizing HTTP calls for inter-process communications (IPC), and implementing Kafka or SNS/SQS as middleware.

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

• Contributing code to projects that require backend work (in Golang)
• Improve existing code bases to be more scalable and reliable
• Reacting to monitoring alerts and triaging accordingly to resolve issues (even after hours)
• Proposing solutions to code or architectural problems in a high-traffic environment
• Doing Root-Cause-Analysis (RCA) exercises and leading/contributing to postmortems for incidents
• Helping and training peers
• Being 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