Senior Backend Engineer

Some things you'll do

• Be a model and mentor for writing performant, well-tested, and easy-to-understand services in Go.
• Apply your unique perspective to help us define, design, and build the next generation of features and infrastructure needed to help our customers and company to flourish.
• Be part of a small team of developers that value high-quality software, practice continuous improvement, inspire collaboration, and believe in rapid iterative development.
• Bring your technical expertise to solve hard problems, adapt to change as we rapidly grow, and leverage new technologies and best practices.
• Work on projects that directly impact the company's revenue.

About you

• Has a iterative mindset
• Knows that communication is hard, and compensates that over communicating
• Believes that freedom means responsibility
• Is eager to work on new and hard challenges

What we're looking for

• A track record of delivering performant and scalable distributed applications on cloud infrastructure, preferably in Go but many of our engineers have succeeded while picking it up on the job.
• Experience working with customers and applying a deep understanding of their needs to produce timely solutions to their real-world problems.
• A collaborative mindset backed by excellent communication skills and a desire to help us make great decisions in an empathetic and respectful way.
• Not being afraid to fail, take risks, and ask for help.
• Comfort working in UNIX environments and applying modern collaborative development practices.
• Experience in working with RDB systems, preferably MySQL.
• Preferably based in North/South American time zones.