About the Role

As a Backend Engineer at Typeform, the individual will contribute code to microservices written in GoLang, utilizing HTTP calls for inter-process communications (IPC) and Kafka or SNS/SQS as middleware.

Things you will do:

• Contributing code to projects that require backend work (in Golang)
• Maintain existing code-bases
• Improve existing code-bases to be more scalable and reliable
• Reacting to monitoring alerts and triaging accordingly to resolve issues (even after hours)
• Proposing solutions to code or architectural problems in a high-traffic environment
• Doing Root-Cause-Analysis (RCA) exercises and leading/contributing to postmortems for incidents.
• Being part of an on-call rota to react to any alerts our monitoring system raises during and outside office hours.

What you already bring to the table:

• 2+ years of experience in a similar role
• Experience working with AWS services or another cloud provider
• University degree in a related field
• 2+ years of experience in a high-traffic distributed architecture
• Experience writing architectural documentation
• Experience being on-call, debugging outages and running postmortems
• Experience working with AWS
• Experience using Kafka
• Experience using GoLang
• Experience using Kubernetes
• Experience using Terraform
• Experience using ElasticSearch
• Experience with docker

Extra awesome:

• Experience working in a remote company or a startup.