Golang / Go Job: Senior Go backend Developer

Senior Go backend Developer at Cycloid

Remote › 🇪🇺 100% remote position (in European timezone)   (Posted Dec 4 2024)

Job description
Freelance, Full-time · Remote in Europe and UK

Hi there! Thanks for being here and let’s get started.

At Cycloid, We aim to promote efficient infrastructure & software delivery alongside digital sobriety. We do this by optimizing platform engineering, alleviating the cognitive load on IT teams, and advocating for Green IT and FinOps practices. Our mission is to enable a future where technology and sustainability can coexist harmoniously, leaving a lasting positive legacy.

Platform teams design, build and run the platform enabling end-users to visualize and deploy existing and new projects, interact with cutting-edge DevOps and Cloud automation without the need to become an expert, while keeping best practices in place, cloud expenses under control with a minimum carbon footprint.

Cycloid, a sustainable engineering platform, provides a frictionless self-service portal with modules around Self-service portail and orchestration, infrastructures and ressources management and FinOps and GreenOps. It can be consumed through the console, in CLI or in API.

At Cycloid, we’re an open organization meaning that your voice and point of view will have a true impact on how we work and the decisions we make. So, as you can imagine, we’re looking for someone who is keen on sharing his/her ideas and opinions. Don’t be shy!

In fact, every year, you will be meeting the teams f2f in order to discuss the product roadmap and the next key developments we want to implement.

One goal: to make our sustainable platform engineering the leading platform in the world

Sounds like a plan, right?

What is my challenge ?

We divide it into three because we are convinced that we grow throughout our professional journey

Short term: understand and comprehend the codebase

Midterm: contribute to the codebase comfortably by adding new features and fixing bugs

Long-term: contribute to the high-level roadmap of the company and be part of major discussions about future features and developments.

You will be joining a team of experienced Backend Developers and be a key part of the development of our new features. Have you heard of our freshly baked Cost Explorer feature yet?

Your day-to-day will be made of :

Contributing to the features you choose to work on by defining those features with the rest of the team or working on those directly.
Developing in Go
Reviewing others code
Communicating with the rest of the team and helping others when needed

But not only: there's room for initiative and propositions because we also believe that ​the best job positions are the ones we build together.
What should I bring to the table?
Your Must-Have includes:

Minimum 5 years experience as a backend developer
Go/Golang and testing (Unit/E2E)
MySQL
HTTP API/JSON (swagger) & co
Keeping up to date with best practices and new technologies
Good knowledge of git and Github
Full English proficiency - both writing and speaking
Full Remote work experience
Honest/Straightforward
Benevolent
Not taking things too seriously :D

Your nice to have could be:

Mature
Docker
Workers
DDD/TDD
Ops Knowledge (Elasticsearch, Terraform, Concourse)
Cloud providers
OSS Mindest/interest

What we bring to the table
Working together should be a win-win situation for everyone involved. Here is what we bring to our side of the table :

Competitive salary and benefits package.
Flexible and transparent work environment, including 100% remote work in Europe
Opportunity to work with a passionate and friendly team on impactful projects.
Professional development opportunities and support for continued learning.
A commitment to sustainability and making a positive impact on the environment
Home office setup up to €1200
Choose your own device spirit
1 retreat workshops per year somewhere in the EU

Join us in creating the future of platform engineering:

Cycloid is committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone, so don’t think twice: contact us! We’ll be glad to chat no matter what.

Apply now!