Golang / Go Job: Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer at Onefootball GmbH

🇩🇪 Germany › Berlin   (Posted Mar 11 2016)

About the company
Launched in 2008 as the first sports app ever on the App Store, Onefootball is today the world’s leading mobile football platform. We fuel the passion of 22 million football fans around the world with a powerful blend of data, editorial and social – providing global reach and local relevance. Available on iOS, Android, Windows and the web, Onefootball is pursuing its goal to bring football to the people backed by top investors.

Job position
Permanent - Remote work is NOT possible

Job description
Join us as experienced Backend Engineer and become a vital part of our engineering team by showing your passion for robust and scalable distributed backend services.

/ Write code that your co-workers appreciate for its readability and elegance.
/ Work on a growing set of backend services that bring the latest scores, match highlights and statistics for hundred of competitions to our users in no time by closely cooperating with our Product team.
/ Read and analyse data from our data providers, process and deliver it to our user base via the latest web technologies: mobile push notifications, WebSockets and more.
/ Be responsible for delivering features and APIs on the backend service side in close cooperation with our Frontend and Apps teams.

Skills & requirements
/ You have experience in developing and maintaining fast, scalable and well-documented APIs.
/ You know exactly what scalability, caching and load testing mean.
/ You have developed backend services using Go.
/ Experience in other languages such as Java, PHP or Python is welcome.
/ You are able to design data models for relational databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL as well as for any kind of NoSQL data store including MongoDB, Redis and others.
/ You’re convinced that the best backend is made of simple, easy-to-understand building blocks that form a reliable system.
/ You know the current trends in architecture and web services.
/ Experience in SCRUM is a plus.
/ You effectively and clearly communicate with team members.
/ And if you’re a football fan, all the better.

Apply now!