Junior Golang Developer

This position is open only to Ukrainian residents currently living in Ukraine (preferably Kyiv or Lviv).

Our product team is looking for a Golang developer. You’ll help create tools used by engineers worldwide and contribute to mission-critical projects.

Technical stack:

• Golang for product development, Python for tests
• Protobuf/gRPC, WebSockets
• OS: Linux Debian (mostly). Alpine, other distributives just for Docker images and test environments.
• DB: PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis
• CI/CD: GitHub, CircleCI, Buildbot

You will:

• Take part in feature discussions and influence architecture/design decisions
• Build and ship new features in our core infrastructure products
• Write unit and integration tests
• Document new functionality clearly and concisely
• Share implementation examples for other engineers
• Contribute to code reviews, design sessions, and test case design

Requirements:

• At least 1.5 years of commercial experience with Go
• Solid understanding of engineering fundamentals: algorithms, concurrency, multithreading, data structures, design patterns, and networking
• Experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL/MariaDB: basic knowledge of SQL and practical experience with DBMS (at least one of them)
• Practical knowledge of Docker: writing Dockerfiles, working with images/containers
• Background in computer science
• Intermediate English (B2)

Nice to have:

• Comfortable working with Python and Bash to read, write, and maintain scripts
• Rust/C: some of our products written with C/Rust. It would help your work if you’re able to read/maintain/review code in Rust/C.
• Security & cryptography: basics of information security, symmetric/asymmetric cryptography, TLS.
• Linux: understand how application communicates with OS, difference between userspace & kernelspace, how to deal with blocking operations

Hiring Process

• Resume review — up to 5 business days
• Test task — estimated time 4-8 hours
• Introductory meeting with the Head of development & solution engineering
• Technical interview with several team members
• Offer discussion

What to expect from us

• We build applications for clients, write code for developers, and document how it all works — for both
• Everyone on the team is happy to help, but we also respect each other’s time and know how to find answers ourselves
• Tech writing isn’t our favourite task, but we do create solid technical documentation when needed, and we’re lucky to have a tech writer to help with that
• We prefer doing things right the first time over patching things endlessly later
• We value healthy perfectionism, a sense of beauty in engineering, and a good sense of humour

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive compensation with a flexible and clear bonus scheme
• Paid vacation — 21 business days per calendar year
• Paid sick leaves
• Hybrid work model: this position allows for a combination of in-office and remote work as needed
• Combining technologies: hardware engineering, software engineering, cryptography, information security
• You will work with people deeply interested in security engineering, you will learn a lot
• Reasonable time budgets and an attitude to build things well — we prioritise building for decades, rather than just until the next release
• Conferences, books, courses — we encourage learning and sharing with the community. Our team members share a a lot in talks, workshops, and blog posts
• Public track record in the open-source aspect of our products.

Our software is well-known amongst security-aware teams, recommended by OWASP, and popular for easily solving complicated security challenges. Apart from building “off-the-shelf” solutions, we design custom security controls for novel problems. We work in the B2B space, with customers such as power grid operators, payment processors, legal companies, and million-user customer applications. We cater to young ambitious startups and well-established enterprises, that use our software and solutions as a core part of their security arsenal.