Position: Golang Engineer
Company: Intellias
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

At FinCompare we are on a mission to simplify SME finance by using technology to offer businesses a convenient one-stop destination for all their financing needs. We develop and operate a successful SaaS Market-Network for German small and medium enterprises, financial advisors and financing institutions which provides access to and the opportunity to compare modern and suitable financing products. We are looking for great team members to join us on our journey to become Europe's biggest, most advanced and reliable SME financing platform.

Software Engineering is at the heart of FinCompare’s Business. We are looking to extend our remote and onsite team with driven individuals who find pleasure in delivering great solutions that lead our customers to success.

We want you to help us make impactful choices in an agile environment so that we stay ahead of the curve with innovative and effective products.

Our mission: Develop good software, faster.

We are part of the client's team. We starting a new team and a new page of our relation. Together we are working closely to drive further market innovations and growth.
 
We are looking for a talented open-minded Engineer who will bring his/her experience, intelligence, and inspiration to support our  Team.

Your Profile

You enjoy solving customer problems
You have 2+ years of professional experience working in modern software teams and with multiple programming languages, ideally both python and Golang
You have a positively opinionated but open mindset
You successfully designed significant parts of production software systems
You worked actively on developing service-oriented systems
You enjoy planning and breaking down problems into small parts
You are experienced with Unit- and Integration-Testing. Bonus: Gherkin
You enjoy thinking about problems and deeply care about simplicity and understanding
You can express yourself and your ideas effectively to technical and non-technical team-members
You are motivated by carrying responsibility for your work and the outcomes we achieve together
You command English level B2 or higher
 
Our technology stack would be (and not limited to):

GoLang, service-oriented architectures, SQS, Messaging, PostgresSQL, Docker

2 cross-functional squads, planning 3 and 4
1 python/Django Monolith, 5 golang services
React, Typescript
Rest, GraphQL, Websockets
moderate diversity of AWS-services (EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, Elasticsearch, Elasticache, SNS/SQS, Secret Manager)
ELK Stack, Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry.io, Jaeger
All software dockerized, different cluster environments including a flexible of cloud-dev environments
Mostly github-based CI
Unit-Tests & integration-/API-Tests (Gherkin-based)
Github, Slack, Atlassian Jira
“Maker Time” - engineers don’t have too many meetings
Responsibilities:

- Foster a strong and engaging engineering culture as role-model within a remote team
- Collaboratively drive technical planning, architecture and domain design
- Provide team members from product with our engineering perspective on high level initiatives
- Help drive us towards small, ideally continuously delivered iterations
- Champion our developer-focused automated testing
- Help break down organizational silos and empower technical peers to contribute with a high degree of end2end ownership
- Help in hiring and training
- Handle “tough nuts” and help us remove technical impediments
- Maintain an environment where failing is safe, learning desired and innovation welcomed
- Technical tasks implementation, design
- Code review, code optimization, refactoring
- Proceed with team planning, proper estimations, commitments
- Creating a technical vision
- Communication with stakeholders and management

Requirements:
- You have worked with multiple back-end programming languages and frameworks including Golang
- You have extensive experience with service-oriented architectures
- You enjoy planning and breaking down problems into small parts
- Your understanding of the software development process end2end allows you to work with strong opinions and lead from the front
- You can express yourself and your ideas effectively to technical and non-technical team-members
- 2+ years commercial experience with Golang
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- Experience with microservice architecture
- Experience with: RESTful / GraphQL / OpenAPI / gRPC APIs
- Experience with one of messaging systems (SQS / RabbitMQ / Kafka )
- Experience with docker
- Experience with testing strategies (TDD, BDD) is a plus
-Passion for agile development methodologies (Scrum, Scrumban, Lean) and engineering practices (continuous integration, continuous delivery, test-driven development)

Ready for a new journey? We are waiting for you.