Golang Job: Lead Golang Developer

Vacancy: Lead Golang Developer Amsterdam

• Would you like to work on highly scalable greenfield product development challenges at a global market leader that has hundreds of millions of consumers on their platforms?
• Do you love to work with a modern tech stack including Golang, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Microservices, Cassandra, GCP, and Kubernetes?
• Do you say yes to great benefits like an indefinite contract, big training budgets, getting paid for childcare and health insurance, and much more?

Then read on, this is your job!

Your employer: this international product company is making an impact by solving scalable Greenfield challenges with hundreds of millions of end-users worldwide

This 100% online tech company is making the lives of hundreds of millions of people easier every single day. This amazing tech product company in Amsterdam is continuously growing due to great success. They are about to start several Greenfield challenges that will immediately be used worldwide, so now is a great time to join. The company culture is characterized as being informal, friendly, and very inclusive towards ex-pats. This company believes that motivated people can make the most of their creativity and intelligence if you give them the freedom and responsibility to do their job. On top of that, they have a true engineering culture that is stimulated by knowledge sharing and infinite training opportunities, with the result that most engineers are contributors to the open-source world. The biggest engineering challenges go hand in hand with great benefits! So on top of a solid salary, you can look forward to compensation for childcare and health insurance, loads of freedom to visit conferences and 3 days working from home, and an indefinite contract from day one!

Your job: Lead Golang Developer Amsterdam

In your role as Lead Golang Developer Amsterdam you will work in one of their elite backend teams tasked to build brand new greenfield heavy load, high availability mission critical backend services that are fundamental for hundreds of millions of end-users. You will lead a highly motivated multidisciplinary development team, and have input on the architecture, design, and tech choice. Things you can bite down on are challenges like building the engine that serves the hundreds of millions of end-users, many connections between the core system and the consumer and enterprise customers and to improve what can be done with AI. This is a unique opportunity to build a greenfield AI system completely from scratch, on a system that already has 9.000 events per second and over 5 million publications per day! Where the load will quadruple in the near future! And that while keeping the scalability and availability high. Career growth Working here means being able to have clear growth and perspective. You can grow to tech lead, architect en principal engineer. Next to that, you will work with some of the keenest minds within heavy-load backend system engineering. At this company, you don’t have to grow into management (letting go of technology) to grow in responsibilities, impact, or salary.

What is required?

• 5+ years of professional experience with backend software development
• Professional experience with Golang
• You thrive within an organization with lots of freedom and autonomy
• Experience in working in highly distributed and scalable environments
• A completed technical Bachelor or Masters education or similar demonstrable level
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is a plus
• Experience with public cloud environments like AWS, GCP, or Azure is a plus
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL like Cassandra is a plus
• Experience with Elasticsearch is a big plus

What is offered?

• Between € 89.000 and € 99.000 gross per year based on experience and impact
• Indefinite contract
• 26 holidays
• Pension
• Laptop or MacBook
• Big training budget
• Freedom to go to seminars, or do courses
• traveling cost compensation
• Working from home options
• Flexible working hours
• 1/6 paid for childcare
• massages every two weeks
• € 40 net per month for health insurance
• 50% discount on a gym membership
• bicycle plan every 3 years
• after 5 years of working a sabbatical for 1 month

Are you a Lead Golang Developer that would love to work for highly scalable Greenfield challenges at a global market leader?

Respond via the form below or send your resume to Sven Gerrmann via

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