About this role
The ideal candidate is extremely focused on fostering team culture, proactively identifies problems, is a great communicator and understands that shipping quality code is more important than perfection. Required experience GoLang TDD Mentality Developing and maintaining high availability backend infrastructures Experience in building scalable databases Deep understanding of your favourite backend stack Interest in and understanding of algorithms, data modeling and complexity English-speaking Bonus merits Contributions to open source Experience in remote teams Cloud environments (AWS, Google Cloud) MySQL maintenance Devops experience We are an Agile development team using a really exciting technology stack to build a world class messaging platform. You'll help run standups, do code reviews, take on-call shifts, give feedback, collaborate on architecture and most importantly, write great code and help run high traffic infrastructure Some of our stack GoLang, MySQL, Riak, PHP, Laravel, RabbitMQ, Redis, Ubuntu, Angular, Websockets, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Docker, LXC/LXD Join us and become part of a team that is set out to build something great! We are a small company on a big quest: bringing group messaging to the next connected billion. We are building something no one ever has: a hybrid of telecom and app-messaging that is well positioned for the shift from SMS to internet-based communications. The service is especially beneficial for emerging markets where groups have an uneven access to internet and smartphones. We are an enthusiastic bunch of people, headquartered in Södermalm in Stockholm. We are about 20 people from nine different countries. We also have staff in Indonesia, Philippines, Ukraine and Romania. Are you up for the challenge of scaling high-availability products to multi-million markets?