1 month ago
Remote, EMEASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, maintain, and optimize high-performance Golang services and scalable gRPC and REST APIs.
- Own microservices end to end, including requirements gathering, architecture, implementation, deployment, and operational support.
- Collaborate with Product, DevOps, and other teams to translate feature requests into robust technical solutions.
- Establish engineering best practices including code reviews, automated testing, observability, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Adhere to security policies, coding standards, and financial and insurance regulatory requirements.
- Monitor and improve production service reliability, performance, and cost.
- Use AI tools responsibly to improve productivity, reduce repetitive work, support decisions, and deliver higher-quality outcomes.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of backend development experience, including at least 3 years of production experience with Golang.
- Demonstrated experience designing and evolving gRPC and REST APIs at scale.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and cloud-native patterns.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps workflows.
- Experience with PostgreSQL and message queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a focus on clean, efficient, maintainable systems.
- Ability to structure effective AI prompts, critically validate outputs, understand limitations, and take responsibility for final results.
- Excellent English communication skills and ability to work in a fast-paced agile environment.
- Experience in insurance, fintech, or financial services is preferred.
- Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or Jaeger is preferred.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure is preferred.
- Knowledge of Terraform or Helm is preferred.
- German language skills are a plus.
Benefits
- Holistic wellbeing benefits covering physical, emotional, social, and work-life wellbeing.
- Medical benefits, gym support, personalized fitness options, team events, and access to the Healthy Habits Club.
- Flexible work-life arrangements with a one-size-fits-one approach.
- Hybrid work environment and community-focused team activities.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanagRPCHelmKubernetesPostgreSQLPrometheusRabbitMQTerraform
