About this role
- You can provide mentorship and support to developers regarding backend development best practices and techniques - You are able to take pragmatic technical design and tooling decisions - You know how to organize code in a modular manner - You know how to deliver an outstanding backend and API for a product - You have a genuine interest in backend development and you stay up-to-date with the latest trends, but still have the maturity not to jump on every new database that shows up on HN DigiExam is a fast growing startup with exciting new opportunities in our development team. We are on the hunt for an innovative and solution driven senior backend developer to join our team. The platform backend that you will work with is a Go application hosted on Google Cloud Platform - which means that you will have all the Google Cloud Platform products at your disposal (more details: https://cloud.google.com/products /). Some of the tools we frequently use today are App Engine, Compute Engine, Datastore, Memcache and BigQuery. We use practices such as continuous delivery for automatic deployment and testing, documentation of our routines and peer review of all our code changes. DigiExam is the leading digital exam platform to create, deliver and grade exams and academic tests. Through a comprehensive, integrated set of tools the platform makes life easier for instructors and teachers to prepare and grade exams, helps students to take tests more efficiently and to reach their full potential. On a institutional level DigiExam helps to offer a more qualitative education and saves the environment and institutions money by reducing paper wastage. DigiExam is intuitive, reliable and secure and currently serves 3,000 universities and schools worldwide.