Golang / Go Job: Backend Go Developer

Backend Go Developer at Vivino

🇩🇰 Denmark › Copenhagen   (Posted Nov 23 2018)

About the company
Vivino is the world's largest wine community, built on top of a vast database of 9 million wines and 30 million wine reviews. More than 32 million users of the Vivino app provide ratings, reviews, price info and much more on a daily basis. Our app is by far the most downloaded and used wine app in the world and available in the Apple App Store and Google Play.

Job description
Do you want to build systems that gives our 32 million users a stunning experience when they want to know or buy one of our 9 million wines? Then we’ve got a lot of opportunities for you to leave your mark.

Vivino is by far the most used wine app in the world and we are creating the world’s largest and easiest marketplace for wine. It’s already available in 10 countries with 300,000 products, but we want to make it available to many more people! So, we are seeking an experienced Go developer for our Copenhagen office, ready to join a vibrant startup.

Responsibilities

Work with our millions of data points, such as wine scans, ratings and prices, to build systems that gives people a stunning user experience when they want to know or buy one of our 10M wines

Improve our wine recognition pipeline to enable people to find exactly the wine they are scanning

Work on our price engine to enable more users to find the best available wine for their budget in our Marketplace

Build and integrate data pipelines and APIs for massive amounts of data using backend services and concurrent systems in Go / Golang, MySQL, Kafka, Aerospike and Elasticsearch

Analyze optimization issues

Skills & requirements
Experienced Go developer

Proficiency with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)

Very strong problem-solving skills

Familiar with Test Driven Development

Ability to work in a team environment at a fast-paced, small company

Understand object orientation and concurrent execution models

Identify yourself more with the virtues of a great developer, rather than specific languages and frameworks

Excel at working with complicated datasets

Have experience with both statically typed languages as well as dynamic scripting languages

Able to read, write, and speak English fluently

You are a curious, communicative person who is eager to learn and are ready to join a startup with few formal procedures and limits. You're not an asshole.

Apply now!