Golang / Go Job: Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer at SpotHero

🇨🇦 Canada › Toronto   (Posted Jul 3 2024)

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Job description
Chicago, IL, United States
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

SpotHero is seeking a Backend Engineer to be part of the team working on our flagship consumer products. This team owns building out new features and products that allow our vendors to price parking spots competitively. You will gain exposure to SpotHero’s pricing products and services which drive our product forward.

Who we are:
At SpotHero, we work as a team to empower people to get everywhere, easier! We’re rapidly growing with the mission of bringing the parking industry into the future through technology. Drivers across the nation use the SpotHero mobile app or website to reserve convenient, affordable parking in advance, on-the-go or through their connected cars, and parking companies rely on us to help them reach new customers while optimizing their business. We connect the dots with cutting-edge technology, delivering value to both sides of this exciting, evolving marketplace.

What will you do:
Collaborate with product designers, backend engineers and data scientists to iterate on experiments and product features that immediately impact our customers
Use technologies and tools like Python/Django/Jinja, Golang, Kafka, Terraform, Postgres, and Airflow to build out new backend features and maintain/improve existing ones
Build a variety of APIs
Participate in design and code reviews
Evolve our backend library, standards and best practices to streamline development and ensure consistency across products
Write relevant and clearly understood tests
Write clear documentation for areas of complexity
Ensure there is observability into your work for both Engineering and Product
Create automated tests

The following experience is relevant to us:
You have 2+ years working in a cloud environment, ideally AWS
You have 2+ years of hands-on experience with Backend development using Python/Django/Jinja and Golang
You have 2+ years of experience building and documenting APIs
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or other containerization technologies
Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure as code technologies
We value humility, a strong work ethic, flexibility, collaboration, technical curiosity, and constant learning
Experience with small teams that move fast

Nice to haves:
Exposure to UI development
Knowledge of a data query and manipulation language (ideally SQL)

What we are offering:
Career game changer – A truly unique experience to work for a fast growing startup in a role with unlimited potential for growth.
Excellent benefits
In the US, We cover 90% of Medical Premiums, 50% of Dental & Vision Premiums, and offer company sponsored Life Insurance. 401K Match.
In Canada we offer Medical (prescription drug and paramedical coverage), Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, STD and LTD.
Flexible PTO policy, generous parental leave, and great work/life balance – We value and support each individual team member.
Learning Budget, Udemy and Sales Assembly license - We support the professional and personal growth of our people by providing everyone with learning resources and development opportunities.
Annual parking stipend (we help people park!).
The opportunity to collaborate with fun, innovative, and passionate people in a casual, yet highly productive atmosphere.
A company that cares about its employees’ unique backgrounds. From Employee Resource Groups to Unconscious Bias Trainings, we want each and every employee to feel like SpotHero is a place where they can bring their whole selves to work.
A workplace recognized as CityLights award winner by 1871, 2023 Best Places To Work by BuiltIn, and recipients of the Best Company Culture, Best Company for Women, and Best Company for Diversity awards from Comparably!

Steps to apply: Please include any GitHub account, LinkedIn profile, and any project that you’re particularly proud of. We love seeing work that others loved working on.

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