Back-end developer
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Summary
Back-end developer at Kufar, a product company, engineering and maintaining highly scalable distributed microservices in Go and PostgreSQL. Day to day: building systems at scale (service discovery, load balancing, canary deployments), monitoring system quality, code reviews, CI/CD, and collaborating with Data Science, Product and UX teams.
What you’ll do:
- You will work in a highly dynamic environment within a brand new and talented team.
- Engineer and implement highly scalable systems, using the best development practices and tools.
- Help define our development environment and communicate the best development practices within the organisation (i.e., code reviews, testing, etc.).
- Continuously monitor the quality of our systems, design measurements to monitor their health (both the engineering systems and data integrity).
- Keep on top of the latest and greatest developments in distributed systems and the cloud.
- Be creative and experiment with new solutions, yet be pragmatic and committed to code optimisation, maintainability, and quality.
- Work closely with other teams (Data Science, Product, UX) at Kufar to drive product development.
Requirements:
- Experience in Go.
- Experience in PostgreSQL.
- Good knowledge of microservices architecture.
- Experience in building and maintaining systems at scale: service discovery, load balancing, secret management, circuit breakers and deployment schemes (rolling updates, canary, etc.).
- Experience with high traffic systems and distributed systems and databases.
- Development best practices used: pair programming, code review, clean code, CI/CD.
- Experience with Agile methodologies such as SOLID, TDD.
- Understands Quality by design and consistently works with Unit testing, Integration Testing.
It’s good if you have:
- Experience in AWS.
- Experience in Docker, Kubernetes.
- Experience in Redis.
- Experience in Kafka and Kafka Streams.
- Experience in Prometheus and Grafana.
- Understanding of DDD.
Soft skills are important as well:
- Must show initiative, proactively finding and solving product problems.
- You love developing good quality software.
- You are open and proactive to discuss different software design alternatives.
- Ownership and result oriented person.
- Have a team-player spirit, which benefits the group vs the individual.
- Good written, spoken and interpersonal communication skills.
- Technical level English is a must.
- Working in a product company with close network of Product colleagues;
- User-friendly office;
- Medical Insurance;
- Sport compensation;
- English language classes;
- Team buildings, after-work activities;
- Salary specified in euro.
We are looking for a specialist for a promising position.
