Golang / Go Job: Software Engineer, Backend

LaunchDarkly

Software Engineer, Backend at LaunchDarkly

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States โ€บ California โ€บ Oakland
  (Posted Aug 1 2018)

About the company
LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that serves over 25 billion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software, faster. Feature flagging is an industry standard methodology of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Each flag can easily be turned off independent of code deployment (aka โ€dark launchingโ€). LaunchDarkly has SDKs for all major web and mobile platforms. Our team culture is dynamic, friendly, and supportive.

Job position
Permanent

Job description
We're looking for a backend engineer to help us build features, design and implement API methods, and improve the performance and reliability of our systems. We're looking for someone who knows what it takes to deliver value to customers and takes pride in the quality of their work.

Our platform serves over twenty billion feature flags daily. The core technologies we use daily include Golang, React, Redux, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, HAProxy, and NATS.

LaunchDarkly is a rapidly growing software company with a strong mission and vision carried out by a talented and diverse team of employees. Our goal is to help teams build better software, faster. You'll join a small team from companies like Atlassian, Intercom, and GitHub, and you'll have an immediate impact with our product and customers.

What you'll do:

Build and expand our APIs and services, written in Go

Collaborate with frontend engineers to deliver user-facing features

Monitor and improve server-side performance

Write unit, integration, and load tests as necessary

Actively participate in code reviews

Write and review technical proposals

Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Skills & requirements
4+ proven experience and fluency with server-side web development (e.g. in Java / Scala, Ruby, Python, Golang, Node.js)

Experience building RESTful APIs

Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, distributed systems, concurrency, and threading

Strong communication skills, a positive attitude, and empathy

You write code that can be easily understood by others, with an eye towards maintainability

You hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems

You value high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices

You may also know (bonus skills):

Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)

A deep understanding of networking technologies (TCP, HTTP, websockets, server-sent events, etc.)


 

Company: LaunchDarkly

LaunchDarkly
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Location: Oakland, California, United States

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Skills wanted, in addition to Golang:
elasticsearch golang java mongodb node
nosql python ruby scala go
react redis redux

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