Golang Job: Staff Backend Software Engineer | BASE

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Company

Gympass

Location

Lisbon - Portugal

Job type

Full-Time

Golang Job Details

Lisbon, Portugal - Remote
Any timezone
More details
Permanent
Gross annual salary: €70.000 - €86.000
Back-end Developer
At least 6 years of experience - Senior
Requires work permit
Language(s): Required English
| Nice to have Portuguese
SKILLS

Must have:
Go
Microservices

Other Required:
Amazon Web Services
NoSQL
SQL

Nice to have:
Ruby
Java
DESCRIPTION
THE OPPORTUNITY
We are hiring a Staff Backend Software Engineer to our BASE Focus Area (Tagus team) in Portugal!

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
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;
Maintain the project technical vision up to date and complete for everyone;
Work with cutting-edge technologies and edge cases on a global scale.

REQUIREMENTS
WHO YOU ARE
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience;
Experienced in managing and mentoring multiple multidisciplinary teams of software engineers;
Experienced in architecting large-scale multi-tier web applications;
Experienced in designing and developing complex modern web applications;
Experienced in Cloud-based architectures (AWS / GCP);
Experienced in developing RESTful web services collaborating with front-end teams to create mocks, define payloads and follow the HTTP best practices;
Experienced in applying computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis;
Experienced 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.

PERKS
We're a wellness company that is committed to the health and well-being of our employees. Our benefits include:

WELLNESS: Health and dental insurance.

GYMPASS DISCOUNT: We believe in our mission and encourage our employees and their families to find their passion too.

PAID TIME OFF: We know how important it is that our employees take time away from work to recharge.

PAID PARENTAL LEAVE: Welcoming a new child is one of the most special moments in your life and we want our employees to take the time to be present and enjoy their growing family.

CAREER GROWTH: Outstanding opportunities for personal and career growth. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development.

CULTURE: An exciting and supportive atmosphere with ambitious people from around the world!

FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE: We give our employees some flexibility to adjust their working hours, letting them adjust their starting time within a range of 3 hours.
REMOTE DETAILS
To apply for this job you must be willing to work in the time zone UTC +01:00. To apply for this job you must be willing to work in time zones with a maximum of 5 hour difference from Lisbon, Portugal time zone.