Go Backend Engineer

Concentrical is a growing technology company that creates meaningful solutions and products to enable students and learners of any age to forge their path to success by eliminating barriers and inspiring them to achieve their education and career goals.

Our company values a culture of openness, community, and sense of ownership. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with a team of highly-talented people working across various disciplines to design and deliver solutions that have a real impact on people’s lives.

We offer competitive salaries and state-of-the-art computer hardware and software. We value work life balance and offer flexible work schedules. 

About the Role:

For this role, we are looking for a Go Backend Engineer who is passionate about large-scale, distributed systems. As a Backend Software Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting and building the services that drive our mission critical high-availability applications. An ideal candidate will care about producing clean, maintainable, well-tested code and will do this as a member of a team, helping the group come up with solutions to balance performance, cost, and quality. We are looking for someone with experience in writing code for a 24x7 commercial service.

Responsibilities:

• Build APIs to support mobile apps, web UIs, and data ingestion applications
• Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of our backend systems.
• Write robust code; demonstrate its robustness through automated tests.
• Work with Product, Frontend, Data Engineering, and QA teams, helping the team respond quickly and effectively to business needs and build quality software.
• Debug crash logs and investigate bug reports from users.
• Improving application performance through code refactoring and organization.

Requirements:

• At least 3 years of practical experience, or a degree or certificate in a related field
• Advanced knowledge of the Go language
• Familiarity with database and data storage technologies like PostgreSQL, Redis, and ElasticSearch
• Comfortable diving into and learning to effectively build and operate in every part of our stack
• Strong communication skills
• Availability to overlap to U.S. time zones as needed

What we offer:

• Competitive salary
• Excellent working environment
• Opportunities for learning and personal growth
• Remote or Hybrid model of work
• Private Health insurance
• Cutting-edge work equipment
• Team-building activities
• 25 days of annual vacation.
• Advancement opportunities