Position: Key Backend Engineer (Golang)
Company: IT рекрутинговое агентство Indigo
Category: Golang
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2020-05-01T00:00:00+03:00

**FigLeaf** is the first-of-its-kind cross-platform App that empowers people with the choice to be private online. FigLeaf makes it easy for you to discover where your personal data is online & how to take it back, empowering you with the choice to fully manage & control your own privacy. We use “zero-knowledge” architecture, a solution that gives each individual the only key to their identity, ensuring no outside party can access their personal information – not even FigLeaf. Lastly, we provide empower individuals with the choice to not give up their private data through a comprehensive suite of tools from synthetic Credit Cards and Email Masking to the integrated VPN and Anti-Tracking. 

**The company was recognized by:**
CES Innovation Award 2020; 
SXSW Innovation Award finalist; 
MWC 2020 4YFN Innovation Award finalist; 
FigLeaf was recently acquired by Aura, Boston-based cybersecurity and privacy company that owns such brands as IdentityGuard.com, Intrusta.com and now FigLeaf.com. 

Aura is led by an experienced and visionary CEO — Hari Ravichandran, who is also a founder of Endurance, a global hosting company that he built in the past and took public (over $3.5b and 3500 employees). Hari was named one of the most powerful CEOs of «40 and under» by Forbes in 2014 and 2015. 

Aura is backed by prominent American VCs, including: — WndrCo: Jeffrey Katzenberg (who has co-founded DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg in 1994) fund that led investments in DropBox, Pango and Quibli. — General Catalyst: outstanding Boston and Silicon Valley-based VC, founded in 2000. It has just raised a new $2.3b fund in March 2020 and holds stakes in companies like Snapchat, Airbnb, Stripe and Grammarly. 

FigLeaf will be structured as a startup within Aura and led by Yuriy Dvoinos, it’s co-founder and a serial entrepreneur and a Privacy advocate, see his presentation on Mobile World Congress in Barcelona 2019: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AupPzOw3fHHkg6Y01FfLojwzPxn4eg

The entire engineering team will be located in Kyiv, Ukraine and collaborate with other Aura resources across the world.

**Requirements:**

Engineering experience in building products with rich functionality; 
6y+ of Software Engineering hands-on experience; 
Strong knowledge of Golang and Python is preferred; 
Good knowledge of cloud architecture best practices (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud, etc.); 
Hands-on experience with Terraform, AWS, and PostgreSQL is preferred; 
Good understanding of cryptography; 
Eager to learn new technologies, architectural best practices and be ready to apply them according to the business needs; 
Excellent Communication Skills: build trustworthy relationships with stakeholders, influence them with new ideas and be able to defend own vision; 
Results-oriented; 
Advanced English level. 

**We offer:**

Have a large impact on the end-to-end architecture of an integrated solution built on the latest technologies applicable to various platforms; 
Communicate with engineers who have deep knowledge in different domains — there’s so much space to grow; 
You will not be bored as Agility is within our DNA. Besides, we also provide continuous professional competencies development and professional growth opportunities; 
We work in a very warm and friendly working environment. There are plenty of top-notch FigLeaf people you can learn from here and we hope you can teach and share knowledge with others, too. We believe in Teamwork. We not only help each other but challenge each other, as well; 
40-hours working week with flexible working hours 
Annual paid vacations (20 working days) 

**Responsibilities:**

Write critical parts of backend related to performance and security (GoLang service or Terraform Infrastructure) like device synchronization, encryption, big data ingestion 
To be responsible for the backend part in negotiations and cooperation with partners on the integration of new services into the product 
Contribute to building a holistic view of product architecture (in the form of visual diagrams) that includes AWS infrastructure, backend components, communication flows 
Drive-in backend team on using best practices when developing on AWS to have a cost-effective, reliable, secure and performant solution 
Responsible for cross-platform Zero-Knowledge architecture and its compliance with security best practices