Golang Job: Principal Back-end Engineer | GPS

Problem Solving

Cloud Computing

Go

Amazon Web Services

Microservices

REST Web Services

SQL

GET TO KNOW US

We simplify wellness so you can find everything in one place. Gympass is a corporate wellness platform that connects you to thousands of fitness & wellness partners, all with one simple monthly membership. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in NYC, we have a growing global team in 11 offices around the world. At Gympass, you not only have the opportunity to build a career in a fast-paced global environment - but you'll make wellbeing universal, so everyone can be happy and healthy.

WHAT MAKES A GYMPASSER?

We are passionate about our mission! Whatever your job title is, here you can make a global impact and change people’s lives. At Gympass, we collaborate, set high achievable goal expectations, and focus on the end result. It's a challenging, evolving environment that allows you to learn and grow. You will face a disruptive and emerging business model that will push you in several areas, with no boundaries for creation and collaboration.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We’re looking for a talented Principal Back-end Engineer to join our GPS (Tagus team) to work in Lisbon (Remote)!

At the Tagus team, we build the heart of the Gympass business model. Our mission is to help Gympass build a truly scalable platform to support dozens of millions of active users, clients, and partners around the world with high availability while being flexible and extensible to incorporate new business models.

We have many important challenges such as building a system that gives us the flexibility to have different commercial conditions for different users in different contexts. Also, we are responsible for some critical and important flows within our business model, such as clients' and users' subscriptions as well as providing data to the ecosystem as the source of truth of these entities.

When it comes to technical challenges, our team works to provide highly scalable solutions, handling large volumes of data and focusing on high availability. Considering our services central role, you’re going to have the opportunity to help drive architecture decisions that impact our whole microservices ecosystem and you will have opportunities to develop both leadership and technical skills, depending on your career aspiration and abilities.

YOUR IMPACT

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  Participate in the development of some of the most critical and challenging services in our ecosystem, seeking to build long-term and sustainable solutions;
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve services focusing on performance, scalability, and resilience;
• Build Integration with 3rd party API and tools;
• Support existing systems looking to enhance functionality, increase scale, and transform in new ways to meet our product demands;
• Work in a collaborative and agile environment that prioritizes people over process and is laser-focused on productivity;
• Work with cutting-edge technologies and edge cases on a global scale.

• An engineer with a bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience;
• Used to work in architecting large-scale multi-tier web applications;
• Used to work in designing and developing complex modern web applications;
• Used to work in Cloud-based architectures (AWS / GCP);
• Used to work in developing RESTful web services collaborating with front-end teams to create mocks, define payloads and follow the HTTP best practices;
• Used to work in applying computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis;
• Used to work in working with SQL/NoSQL technology such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB understanding common use cases and performance pitfalls
• You're expected to perform management tasks such as mentoring, facilitating and conducting regular one-on-ones with the members of your team, making sure that they are constantly challenged, engaged, and improving their skills;
• Proficient in one or more programming languages (Java/Ruby/Go/C++/etc.). Golang will be considered a plus;
• Communication skills to work with multidisciplinary teams located in several countries with different cultures;
• You need to be able to articulate ideas clearly when speaking to groups in English

To apply for this job you must be willing to work in the time zones between UTC -03:00 and UTC +05:00.

It will be remote. But if you want to meet your teammates, you can go to the office! :)