Senior Backend Engineer (Go)
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Job description
We're looking for an experienced backend engineer to join us! We currently have two cross-functional product teams. We're ambitious, and have many interesting strategic and technical challenges ahead of us, including :
- Working towards our multi-product strategy as we scale our newest product, Plans
- Expanding our target audience to include other primary healthcare providers (like vets and hearing specialists) and other regions / countries
Our legacy system has supported us for 8 years and enabled us to reach >
10k dentists and create a sustainable, profitable business as we rapidly scale further. You should expect to play a key role in our engineering team.
We typically use the following tools and technologies :
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Go to write our application code
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Google Cloud and AWS for infrastructure
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Confluent Kafka for our events handling
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Serverless technologies in AWS e.g. API GW, Lambda, EventBridge, DynamoDB, Docker for our new infrastructure
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Postgres for our databases
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Our frontend uses Javascript and TypeScript and is hosted on Vercel Interview process :
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An initial call with our recruiter
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A take-home task or a sample from a public GitHub
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A technical interview with our engineering team
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A behavioural interview with our product team
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Offer stage includes a meeting with Paul, our CEO
Requirements
- You have strong experience working on a Go backend of a technology product, particularly if you've worked with Go or in fintech before
- You're comfortable with a DevOps mentality of "you build it, you run it"
- You have a product mindset : you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisions
- You're comfortable leading on projects that are large in scope, ambiguous, or not well defined
- You care about their team, and work to continuously improve culture, processes and communication
Benefits & conditions
- Competitive salary
- Employee share options
- £2,000 per annual CPD package
- Full kit for home office
- Health insurance and life assurance (including dental and optical) for UK staff
- Company trips
- 24 days holiday annually, plus a day off on your birthday
- Extended parental leave
- Contributing pension scheme for UK staff
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