Senior Software Engineer (Golang)

Team description: 

As Livestorm is growing rapidly, our team is aiming to develop the virtual event context. Our responsibilities range from audio/video streams, events access & moderation, our public API, and everything that has to do with relevant data synchronization between Livestorm and 2nd/3rd-party software.

Therefore, we are looking for a talented senior software engineer that can be a partner in helping us scale up our codebase.

Missions: 

In this role, you'll be responsible for:

• Conceptualize, build and implement solutions that will be used by thousands of clients.
• Challenge our architectures and take the lead on ambitious technical projects.
• Improve the quality of the team’s code through writing unit tests and automation.
• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
• Maintain and advocate for these standards.
• Drive innovation on the team with a willingness to experiment and confront problems of great complexity and scope.
• Collaborate with the product and design stakeholders to understand better the end-user requirements.

Current Stack:

• Backend: 
  • Ruby 3.1, Rails 7
  • NodeJS, Apollo Server
  • Golang 
• Datastores: 
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • S3
• Services communication:
  • gRPC
  • Kafka
• Frontend: Vue.js
• Infrastructure: 
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes

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Requirements

For this senior back-end engineer role, we are looking for someone with the following experience:

Code

• Strong experience with Golang
• Experience with micro-service architecture
• Experience with relational databases in load intensive context
• Rigorous testing and code quality (TDD, acceptance tests, unit tests)

Team fit

• You're a team player and you have a sense of ownership
• You're fluent in English

Plus

• You have experience with gRPC and/or Kafka
• You have experience with Kubernetes
• You have experience with Ruby and Rails
• You know how to implement event-based communication between micro-services
• You care about reliability, scalability, and maintainability
• You have already worked in an agile environment and you loved it
• You are curious about new languages and aren't afraid of using new patterns and structures

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