Position: Golang Engineer
Company: Blackbird Lab
Experience required: 5y
Category: Golang
English level: upper
Published: 2023-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

**Position & client**
Our client is a Canadian software company that builds a digital shopping marketplace for shoppers to get local savings and deals. The product is a flyers – digital circular platform that enables users to browse and compare weekly ads and deals from retailers across North America. With Flyers users can search for deals on specific products or browse through full flyers from their favorite stores. The platform offers a range of features, including the ability to clip and save deals, create shopping lists, and set deal alerts for specific products. Our client is an established, profitable company that has been in the business for over 10 years.

This project is built around the microservices architecture, with services communicating via Kafka. For a long time, tech stack was centered around Ruby on Rails but in the last 2 years most new services are written with Go. This position will require you to build new microservices and improve existing ones where needed. APIs of these services are used by the mobile app and the website with hundreds of thousands users. 

During your onboarding, you will join an existing team for 2-3 months for knowledge transfer. After that, you’ll become one of the first developers of a new Mobile team that will consist of iOS, Android and Backend engineers. 

**Stack of the project**
- Golang, Ruby on Rails
- AWS ECS, EKS, Lambda
- DynamoDB, MySQL (AWS Aurora), ElasticSearch
- Docker
- Kafka
- GitHub Actions

**Responsibilities**
- Participate in technical and product discussions
- Be accountable for delivering and supporting applications in a production environment
- Code review teammates’ work and identify areas for improvement
- Recommend improvements and ways to enhance the functioning of the software
- Write code, establish a coding culture and standards

**Requirements**
- ​​5+ years of experience with overall backend development
- 3+ years of experience in Golang development
- Experience with SQL and noSQL databases
- Experience with message brokers 
- Upper-Intermediate English speaking level

**Will be a plus**
- Experience with Kafka
- Experience with Ruby

**Team setup & processes**
It’s going to be a new team within the product

**Interview process**
- HR interview (30 mins)
- Tech interview with a Senior Golang Engineer (90 min)
- Interview with Tech PM (60 min)

**Benefits**
We are all for the self-development of each team member. As a part of our team, you’ll be supported in your professional growth, work on Macs, receive certifications, and visit conferences. On top of that, you will enjoy an attractive social package, including

- Сompetitive monthly compensation
- Flexible working schedule
- Working remotely
- 18 paid vacation working days
- Paid sick leaves (with 5 undocumented days per year)
- Health support with medical insurance or sports programs
- English lessons, sports activities, and charity events
- Full support of Private Entrepreneur reporting services (ФОП)