Golang Job: Senior Backend Engineer

Whalar is a tech-powered influencer company on a mission to Liberate the Creative Voice. We combine technology, creative strategy, talent expertise, and platform partnerships to unite brands with target audiences globally by connecting them with thousands of influencers, tastemakers, and storytellers, around the world!

Whalar works with 300+ brands and is the only influencer agency to win a Cannes Lions Award - in fact, we've won two. Recently named the 6th Fastest-Growing Medium Agency, and 20th across all considered companies in the prestigious Adweek 'Top 100', Whalar is an industry leader.

Location/Remote

This role is tied to our Malaga Office but can be remote and sit anywhere in Spain. We are also open to candidates who are EU citizens and want to relocate to Spain.

As part of your job, you will

• Follow agile methodologies
• Write robust, reliable and maintainable code you are proud of
• Align with the product team to help achieve the best solution
• Contribute to growing our microservices architecture
• Integrate third-party services
• Enhance our data ingestion infrastructure
• Improve the security of our systems
• Create technical documentation
• Work towards improving our Data-Driven products
• Collaborate with our Data Science team
• Help to measure the success of our products

Experience:

• A minimum of 4+ years of backend software development experience (i.e. PHP, C++, Python, Java, Golang, C#, etc.)
• Understanding of microservices architecture and best practices
• Solid knowledge of REST APIs and web service architecture
• Proven experience using best practices (SOLID, Clean code, TDD )
• Experience writing unit and integration tests
• Experience using Symfony or Laravel frameworks
• Experience using Docker and AWS
• Experience using code analyzer tools (phpstan, phpmd, sonar, etc)
• A good command of written and spoken English

Bonus Points:

• Experience with PHP 7.4+ and Symfony or Laravel frameworks
• Experience with RabbitMQ or Kafka
• Knowledge of Python or NodeJS
• Experience Elasticsearch

Soft skills:

• Self organizer
• Good communicator
• Problem solver
• Curious by nature with an attention to detail
• A contributor - everyone on our team has a voice

Our values:

Our people are our superpowers. At Whalar, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are at the core of who we are. We are deeply committed to reflecting on the unique journeys, authentic voices, and perspectives of our people, our creators, and the communities they represent. Our hope is to impact accessibility beyond compliance and help break societal stigmas and stereotypes. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for everything creator, we want to meet you, and we encourage you to apply.

The perks:

Whalar is a remote-first working environment, allowing our employees to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves. Whalar is located across 18 states in the US and 6 countries including offices in London and Málaga, Spain. Whalar provides flexible benefits and collaborative work environments/experiences, empowering employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs.

• Remote-first company (but if you are around Malaga we also have an office available if you wish to go)
• Flexi-working hours approach
• 25 days PTO per year + Winter break (between Xmas and NY's) on top of your PTO to refresh
• Yearly professional development allowance for your job-related development
• One-off home office setup allowance to help you get comfortable with your home office setup + Monthly teleworking allowance
• Private health insurance for you paid by Whalar
• English language development classes
• Full subscription with Calm and FWR Progress apps
• Volunteer days available

Whalar provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Equal opportunity extends to all aspects of the employment relationship, including hiring, promotions, training, working conditions, compensation, and benefits.