Golang Engineer
token.com
United Kingdom
Hi, we’re token.com. Our goal is to create a world where money can flow effortlessly into the things people truly care about. token.com is the fun, simple and social platform to discover and invest in the game-changing ventures of tomorrow. At token.com we recognise the positive value of diversity, we promote equality and challenge discrimination. We actively encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
We’re a high-performance team of around 65 people. We have freedom and responsibility, a culture that encourages innovation, offers ownership and embraces knowledge sharing. We are now working as a team first, remote friendly company, arranging monthly get-togethers and regular team offsites. We also have a co-working space in London for collaboration and socialising.
We are looking for a passionate Golang Engineer to help develop and maintain our backend platform, working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable and maintainable backend services. You will be a key contributor in creating a seamless product experience and have the chance to grow within a fast-paced startup!
To help you best prepare, we’ve outlined the interview process for this role, we aim to have this process completed within 3 weeks:
- 30 minute google meet call with our Talent Team.
- 1 hour google meet with one of our Head of Engineering.
- Take Home Assignment.
- 1 hour technical interview.
Requirements
What we’re looking for:
- Strong competence developing in Golang.
- You’re able to reason about software and systems in other mediums, such as proposal documents (RFCs).
- Experience developing within a microservices architecture.
- You write testable code.
- You’re an effective communicator, able to convey technical details to a non technical audience where necessary.
- You usually collaborate with product owners, mobile engineers and other backend engineers.
- You’re motivated to do great things and take pride in delivering an excellent product experience.
- Experience working in a growing startup environment.
Nice-to-haves:
- Developing in JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience with GraphQL.
- Experience with gRPC.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform technologies, such as Firestore, BigQuery, Pub/Sub.
- Familiarity with hexagonal architecture.
What you’ll be doing:
- Engaging in software development to build and enhance backend services.
- Prototyping and researching solutions to new and complex problems.
- Assisting and mentoring co-workers, including participating in code reviews.
- Continuously improving the quality and performance of our systems.
Benefits
What we offer you!
Our team members are rewarded well! UK employees are offered the below, and we will aim for similar elsewhere:
- Private health insurance with all the fun extras (with options for your family too!)
- A training & development budget that helps you to grow with token.com
- 25 days holiday plus local public holidays
- Flexible working hours (we care about your output, not when you rock up or clock out)
- Excellent paid maternity and paternity leave
- Working from home budget
- Top of the range hardware
Instructions
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