Golang Job: Backend Engineer (m-f-x) (Remote)

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Company

Knowunity
Germany

Location

Remote Position
(From Everywhere/No Office Location)

Job type

Full-Time

Golang Job Details

Remote
Work Type: Full Time
Be part of the educational revolution - join Knowunity today!
As the fastest growing Ed-Tech in Europe, Knowunity brings together a community of over 5 million active students, who support each other through their school years & use Knowunity as their daily learning companion.
Knowunity was founded out of own problems in school with the vision of creating a future where every student can access, enjoy and benefit from a great education with Knowunity as the global #1 platform for students.


In the first 12 months you will:

  • Build a platform that scales to several million users
  • Evolve our product, powered by a service architecture predominantly written in Go
  • Investigate and resolve high-impact scalability issues within Knowunity’s product and frameworks
  • Build and provide internal & external RESTful APIs that ensure a fast & frictionless updating of our backend products
  • Challenge and expand your knowledge of reliable architecture, programming, and new technologies
  • Work with and learn from other experienced engineers while collaborating on particularly difficult technical challenges


You bring:

  • You have 5+ years experience of software development
  • You have a deep technical understanding of RESTful API’s
  • You have a background in building scalable distributed products and practical experience with caching
  • You are experienced with PostgreSQL or MySQL
  • You have experience working with AWS or GCP
  • Bonus: experience working with Golang


Our tech stack:

  • Backend: Golang, Microservices, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes
  • Frontend: React.js, TypeScript, Next.js, Redux, styled-components
  • Mobile: Flutter, Riverpod
  • Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana
  • Workflow: Jira, GitLab, Notion
  • Search: Elasticsearch
  • https://stackshare.io/knowunity/knowunity


Our employees or "KnowStars" as we call them tell us that innovative work keeps them energized and employee benefits help them to feel appreciated and empowered. We invest in every "KnowStar" with our employee benefits package, crafted to support financial, physical, and mental health.


What else?

At Knowunity, we actively foster an inclusive and diverse workplace that ensures equal opportunity for all qualified applicants, regardless of nationality, ethnic or national origin, skin color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or marital status. Please refrain from including your picture and age with the application


Did we just describe your ideal next role? We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all the requirements!