Golang Job: Senior Back End Engineer

With deineStudienfinanzierung, we have created a platform with outstanding customer service that has already helped thousands of students to master the first major financial challenge of their lives. We are supported by outstanding partners including the FinTech ecosystem of finleap as well as first-class business angels such as Sibylle Strack, Marco Vietor, Christian Gaiser, André Bajorat and Pip Klöckner.

In order to achieve our vision and continue to support our clients with their next financial challenges, we would like to expand our team in the coming months and are therefore looking for a new member to join our team.

Are you particularly good with people, do you have an authentic manner and like to spread good humour? Do you feel comfortable in a young and highly motivated team - then you've come to the right place. We look forward to hearing from you!

Tasks

Your responsibilities in our team

• Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code.
• You will be responsible for ensuring that the system accurately meets the defined expectations of the business unit, ensuring that proper testing is implemented, and performance requirements are closely monitored by working with the development teams.
• Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient micro services distributed architecture
• Develop and maintain the CI/CD flow.
• Write a proper API documentation.

Requirements

Our humbled expectations

• It's at the core of our culture that we don't just accept the status quo, but enable everything in the customer's mind that leads to a better life. For this, you need a lot of energy and resilience to constantly find new ways to solve things.
• 5+ years of experience in Software engineering.
• 3+ years of experience with Go on production (Golang).
• Experience with the full site of Go frameworks and tools, including Dependency management tools such as Godep, Sltr, etc., templating language, code generation tools such as Stringer, web frameworks such as Revel and Router packages such as Gorilla Mux.
• Knowledge of common Goroutine and channel patterns.
• Feeling confident in microservice environments using gRPC/Protobuf.
• Experience with both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience using Kafka.
• Experience in unit testing and integration testing.
• Understand classical algorithms and data structures
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with AWS services (CloudFormation, App Mesh, AWS Fargate, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS).
• You're fluent in English (add-on: German)

Benefits

Perfect timing with renowned investors to build something great

Outstanding mentors who will support you in your growth

Attractive salary and you even get a stake in the company

Extremely steep learning curve with own responsibility and intensive support

Learn to be pragmatic and make quick and sustainable decisions

⏱️ Flexible working hours, because we care about your outcome and not output

Very strong team cohesion with daily and weekly activities

Do you want to become part of our first-class team and empower young people to make excellent financial decisions even without prior knowledge? Then you absolutely have to send us your application immediately.

PS: And if you want to stand out in your application, just let us know in your cover letter what we can improve about our website, the product or even our job offers.

PSS: We value equal opportunity. It means we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and we encourage all people equally to apply for jobs with us.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, as we believe diverse teams are more successful in the long term.