Position: Senior Go Developer
Company: BrightLocal
Experience required: 5y
Category: Golang
English level: upper
Published: 2021-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

We’re looking for an experienced Go Developer who is excited by the challenge of working closely with our product team to design and plan complex technical solutions and then work collaboratively with other Go and PHP developers to bring those plans to life.

**Required Skills**
 • Extensive experience in software development
 • Solid understanding of a variety of programming tools and development platforms
 • Excellent organizational and leadership abilities
 • Highly analytical mindset, with an ability to see both the big picture and the details
 • Strong communication and presentation skills
 • Experience in implementing microservices
 • Extensive experience of Go (Golang)
 • Experience with one or more scripting language
 • MySQL, PostgreSQL or other similar relational databases and ability to write complex SQL queries and troubleshoot database performance issues
 • Day to day use of Linux on both the desktop and server
 • Networking, DNS, load balancing etc
 • Server and network monitoring and management tools
 • Good understanding of application security
 • Testing and writing unit tests
 • Git (and in particular GitHub) — very comfortable branching, creating pull requests and merging
 • Excellent English language skills

**Great To Have**
 • Cassandra and ElasticSearch
 • Message/job queues (utilising software such as RabbitMQ)
 • ClickHouse, Redis
 • System automation tools, such as Ansible or Puppet
 • Docker/Containerisation

**Benefits & Additional Info**
• Competitive pay with yearly salary review
• Performance related bonus worth up to 20% of annual salary
• 20 days paid holiday per year + public holidays
• An extra paid day off on your birthday
• Paid sick days
• Work abroad for 4 weeks of the year (in a location of your choosing)
• Medical insurance
• Individual training budget of $800/year
• Free online English  lessons twice a week
• A modern, quiet and comfortable workplace (if you wish to work from office during quarantine )
• Possibility to work from home till the end of quarantine (company helps with work place)
• Fast, powerful PC or Laptop and high quality 24″ screen(s)
• A plentiful supply of coffee, cookies and fruit in the office