Position: Go SDE or Senior Python SDE willing to learn Go
Company: Akvelon
Experience required: 3y
Category: Golang
English level: upper
Published: 2022-11-01T00:00:00+02:00

Akvelon is looking for a Go SDE or Senior Python SDE willing to learn Go for long-term cooperation. Akvelon is a fast-growing (+30% per last year) and non-bureaucratic company with friendly and highly skilled technical managers open to implementing new approaches and grasping new concepts and ideas.

The client is a well-known USA company, which created the most famous in the world community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. With more than 50 million people visiting 100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. From pets to parenting, skincare to stocks, there are communities for everybody.


**Responsibilities:**
- Build new features and products into the client web application
- Own engineering projects from design to implementation to deployment and maintenance
- Solve complex backend challenges around performance and code reusability while continuously improving code quality
- Code review
- Bug fixing and testing new code
- Diagnose production issues

**Requirements:**
- 3+ years of professional experience building backend applications with Golang or Python experience but with strong intention to learn Golang
- Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
- Exceptional discipline and ability to stick with the team’s internal process/rules
- Upper -Intermediate English or higher

**Nice to have:**
- Full-stack background will be a plus
- Working conditions and benefits
- Paid vacation, sick leave (without sickness list)
- Flexible working schedule: 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week (2-3h PST overlap)
- Official state holidays
- Employee support program (Discount, Care, Heals, Legal compensation)
- Professional growth while attending challenging projects and the possibility to switch your role, master new technologies and skills with company support
- Paid external training, conferences, and professional certification that meets the company’s business goals
- Internal workshops & seminars
- Personal Career Development Plan (CDP)
- Corporate library (Paper/E-books) and internal English classes