Senior Go Back-end Engineer, Hunter
$90-120k
+ Automatic annual raise of 5%
Providing tools to connect professionals
Be an early applicant
Providing tools to connect professionals
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
$90-120k
+ Automatic annual raise of 5%
1-20 employees
Company mission
To give professionals the power to create new connections with the people that matter.
Role
Who you are
- You have a proven track record as a Back-end Engineer or a similar role, preferably in a SaaS environment
- You have professional experience with Golang (preferred) or Python
- You worked on AI projects (involving LLMs, NLP, or NER)
- You have solid experience with Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Redis
- You’re familiar with the Cloud ecosystem, or have experience with Kubernetes, as well as with CI/CD and automation
- You enjoy dealing with complex problems and finding elegant solutions
- You like staying up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in back-end development
- You're excited to take ownership of projects, set directions, and make decisions. You're able to communicate clearly with your colleagues
- You have experience in remote working. You're comfortable working primarily with asynchronous communication and don't need much handholding or supervision
What the job involves
- Hunter's Engineering department is hiring a Senior Go Back-end Engineer!
- You will work on the Hunter back-end, which is at the heart of our publicly sourced database of Companies and People
- We love working as a small group and don't hire frequently; this is a rare and exciting opportunity to join us
- You'll be part of the Data team alongside Darko, our seasoned Golang developer and AI enthusiast
- We have set up a great work environment focused on autonomy and growth
- We emphasize asynchronous communication and keep meetings to a minimum to maximize efficiency
- Our back-end is built on a robust Golang monolith that scans billions of web pages monthly
- On top of it, we rely on a bit of Python for our AI-related workloads
- Both create a streamlined yet powerful setup that boosts our productivity while keeping our team lean
- Our priority is to devise the most effective and elegant solutions for large-scale challenges
- As part of a small team within a fast-moving company, you will work on various projects over time
- At first, you’ll become familiar with our processes for gathering, analyzing, and structuring data from billions of Web pages
- Within a few weeks, you'll become responsible for significant projects that will improve Hunter’s database at scale. These projects can involve implementing a new AI-based data pipeline, tuning our Golang application's performance, or improving our Quality Assurance
- You'll collaborate with the rest of the Engineering department to gradually improve our data quality and quantity
- You’ll monitor and troubleshoot back-end processes, resolving any issues or bottlenecks that may arise
- You'll get a high level of autonomy in your work and help shape future development efforts
Our take
In today's world, finding and connecting with professionals online can often be an all too daunting experience, with so much information on the web, finding the right information isn't always as straightforward as it should be.
Hunter (Hunter.io) is an email verifier tool helping eliminate the difficulties of connecting with professionals, allowing users to find email addresses, names, job titles, social networks, and phone numbers in seconds.
Since its inception in 2015, Hunter has been trusted by over 2M professionals and chosen by leading companies such as Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Adobe to further build their connections within their industries. With a Chrome extension alongside its website, Hunter aims to make it easier to find email addresses.
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Company benefits
- Five weeks of paid vacations per year
- Fully paid setup (including a MacBook Pro, standing desk and ergonomic chair)
- Coworking space membership
- Twice yearly company retreat in Europe
Company HQ
Wilmington, DE
Leadership
Antoine Finkelstein
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Toulouse Business School with a Master in Management, also previously Co-Founded Fimapi.
François Grante
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Toulouse Business School in 2015.
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