Position: Backend Software Engineer - SaaS Integrations
Company: Percona
Category: Golang
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

We’re looking for a full-time backend developer with extensive SaaS experience to join our team and help continue building Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM).  While you’ll predominantly be responsible for building microservice API’s for our web platform, ambitious and talented full-stack developers are welcome to apply too as there’s plenty of UI work to do as well.  This is an amazing opportunity to build something from the ground up and integrate our existing Client <--> Server products with Cloud to deliver a new wave of services and functionality to our users. The work is challenging, but that’s why it’s also fun and rewarding!  Plus, our team is small, so you and your work will have a large impact. This is a rare opportunity to start with a great team, on a great project, at a great company with lots of benefits.


**What You Will Do**

        Brainstorm with designers, architects and product managers to build and tweak functionality
        Participate in code and design reviews, teaching and learning from other engineers
        Identify and uphold engineering best practices
        Develop scalable, high-volume, performant applications focused on simplicity and user delight
        Produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration
        Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity


**Your Experience**

        2+ years programming in Golang (preferred), Java, Python with excellent programming fundamentals
        Test-driven and zealous about testing
        Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL or MongoDB (basic usage as a programmer)
        Comfortable with Linux (basic usage as a programmer)
        Excellent English written and verbal language skills
        Ability to work with others we sell as independently in a fully remote environment
        Deep experience with distributed SaaS applications
        Development experience on cloud computing platform (AWS, Azure, or OpenShift)
        Familiarity with version control systems (Git)
        Experience designing, building, and documenting APIs



**What Will Make You Stand Out**

        Other databases/data stores (memcached, clickhouse)
        Deep knowledge security and encryption techniques for transmitting and storing sensitive data
        Experience with CSS / HTML / Javascript
        Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling (ES6, Ember, React, etc.)
        Experience with continuous deployment to cloud / virtualized environments (“DevOps”)
        Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
        Experience with Prometheus
        College degree
        Experience writing and maintaining unit tests