Backend Engineer, Typeform

• 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

Desirable

• As a 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
• Contributing code to projects that require backend work (in Golang)
• Maintain existing code-bases
• 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