Golang / Go Job: Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer at Readdle

🇺🇦 Ukraine › Odessa   (Posted Jul 8 2018)

About the company
Readdle creates innovative business and productivity applications that shape Future of work. People can get things done faster and much more efficiently while using Readdle apps such as Spark, Documents, Scanner Pro, PDF Expert, Calendars 5, Printer Pro, etc. Founded back in 2007, Readdle aims to bring best in class apps with comprehensive UI and powerful features. More than 90,000,000 downloads and millions of users worldwide are happily using Readdle apps on a daily basis. Innovative technologies, great user experience and attention to the details made Readdle one of the most significant players in the AppStore.

Job position
Permanent - Remote work possible

Job description
Spark is looking for Senior Software Engineer for high-load backend service. You will work on distributed cloud service that helps popular iOS email client Spark to perform important notification and productivity-related tasks.

Responsibilities:

Build distributed, scalable and fault-tolerant system in the cloud using Go.

Develop tools for running and monitoring the system and ensure reliable operations at optimal performance.

Work closely with product manager and iOS development team to define architecture, protocols and requirements for new functionalities.

About you:

Have product-oriented mindset.

Work effectively in the situation of tough tradeoffs between functionality, complexity and development time.

Have both a big-picture orientation and the ability to dive into feature details.

Have blend of intelligence, integrity, communications skills and self-motivation.

Skills & requirements
Solid understanding of back-end technology stack, including networking stack.

Hands-on experience with Golang.

Actual experience of following modern development best practices: unit testing, static analysis, code review, dependency management.

5+ years of professional development enterprise.

Experience with the following: MySQL; Redis; NSQ; Elasticsearch; Ansible

Will be a plus:

Actual experience with Cloud services;

Experience with web infrastructure and distributed systems;

Contributions to the open-source community;

Expertise with some scripting language.

Apply now!