Senior Backend Engineer

About the Role

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Typeform you'll be responsible for contributing code to microservices written in GoLang utilizing HTTP calls for inter-process communications (IPC) and implementing Kafka or SNS/SQS as middleware. Working closely with our Product Team you’ll champion engineering excellence as you create beautiful and secure features and functionalities for our customers which enhances their user experience.

Things you will do:

• Contributing code to projects that require backend work (in Golang)

• Improve existing code bases to be more scalable and reliable

• Reacting to monitoring alerts and triaging accordingly to resolve issues (even after hours)

• Proposing solutions to code or architectural problems in a high-traffic environment

• Doing Root-Cause-Analysis (RCA) exercises and leading/contributing to postmortems for incidents.

• Helping and training peers

• Being part of an on-call rota to react to any alerts our monitoring system raises during and outside office hours.

What you already bring to the table:

• University degree in a related field

• Experience in a high-traffic distributed architecture

• Experience writing architectural documentation

• Experience with our core technologies: GoLang Cloud providers and Messaging systems

• Excellent written and spoken English skills

Extra awesome:

• Experience working in a remote company or a startup.

• Previous working experience with Kafka Terraform Kubernetes & Elasticsearch