Senior Golang Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Golang Engineer (m/f/d) to join our App & Web team, focussing on constantly improving the App, Mobile Website and Desktop Website.

You’ll work on developing our backend API serving our App & Web Application. Additionally, you’ll focus on hardening and optimizing the API for production, tackling technical challenges as the platform scales.

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 are very proficient in Go development
• You have 5+ years of experience in building complex backend API’s
• 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
• 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.)
• You have experience with gRPC or GraphQL
• You are familiar with centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions
• You understand DevOps, Containerization and Cloud solutions