Golang / Go Job: Software Engineer

Software Engineer at Restless Bandit

🇺🇸 United States › California › San Francisco   (Posted May 6 2016)

Job position
Permanent - Remote work is NOT possible

Job description
Restless Bandit is a well-funded San Francisco startup focused on helping companies identify and retain the best people in the exploding "war-for-talent" space. This is an exciting, near ground floor opportunity with a group of people with extensive experience in HR tech. Our founders were executives at Bright, an HR tech company acquired last year by LinkedIn for $130M and our data scientists and engineers come from Bright, LinkedIn, and Google, and have extensive experience applying big-data methods to the hiring domain.

As a Back-end Developer you will collaborate with front-end engineers, product managers and data scientists to develop and maintain RESTful APIs (Go/lang), serving data to front-end components of our data-driven, talent-matching products. You will play an integral part in deployment processes, infrastructure and schema design, server metrics aggregation and analysis. You will employ programming and deployment best practices while maintaining a broad-minded perspective on methodology dogma.

Skills & requirements
- 4-5 years experience writing production back-end applications
- 2-3 years experience with a compiled language (Go, C, C++, Java)
- 2-3 years experience writing and maintaining RESTful APIs
- 2-3 years experience writing effective unit tests against production code
- 6 months experience writing Go applications
- 1+ years experience working in an environment with large-scale data processing / machine learning infrastructure
- consistent awareness of code readability, robustness, refactoring
- strong opinions about programming best practices coupled with flexibility in the face of cogent opposing opinions
- ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical teammates

Apply now!