Lead Backend Developer (Golang)

We are looking for a full-time Lead Backend Developer to join our development team. Job duties will include leading a team working on Stream’s core API technology with Golang as well as designing and building high-performance software.

What You Will Be Doing

As a team lead, we expect you to lead by example, drive projects and be hands-on coding on the entire stack.

You will add new features to the service and find ways to make the existing ones perform orders of magnitude faster. Our customers have millions of users; they use Stream for mission-critical features such as showing content and exposing the core functionality of their application. Building stable and reliable software is not just an option: as a member of the development team, you will design and write state-of-the-art software, follow best practices, measure everything and be responsible for deployment to production. You will also spend part of your time talking to our customers and help them to use Stream in their app.

The challenges

• Distributed databases: we built our own data store for feeds and for chat
• Real-time messaging
• High performance: our API responses are in the 10ms range
• High scalability: we use sharding, master-master, and master-slave to ensure scalability
• High availability: our entire infrastructure is designed and operated to survive entire data center crashes
• Multi-region: we deploy our service on 4 different continents

You have

• Proficiency in Go
• 5+ years as a backend developer
• 2+ years in a leadership role
• Experience with high-traffic and high-performance applications
• Good knowledge of relational databases
• Experience with building HTTP APIs
• Experience managing your own projects and working in a team

Our tech stack

At Stream, we use a wide collection of technologies to offer highly optimized and available features to our customers. Over the years we have experimented with different programming languages, frameworks, databases, and libraries. Here is a short list of the technology that we currently use. Do not worry if you do not master them all or if you do not see your favorite tool or language, you will have the chance to be exposed to most and to convince us to expand the list:

• Go, gRPC, RocksDB, Python
• Postgresql, RabbitMQ
• AWS, Puppet, CloudFormation
• Grafana, Graphite, ELK, Jaeger
• Redis, Memcached

Why join Stream?

• History of success. From Amsterdam to Boulder and Techstars in between, Stream has raised over $58.25M to build the best Chat Messaging & Activity Feed infrastructure available, with best-in-class support.
• Freedom and endless growth opportunities. As a rapidly growing startup (since 2020 we have gone from 30 to 150 employees), Stream gives you unique personal and professional growth opportunities. The opportunity of true ownership and accountability has a massive impact on your career. These are the things you can rarely experience in huge corporations.
• Be on the front line of progress and innovation. While working with cutting-edge technology, we are passionate about tackling difficult tech problems at scale and creating reusable components for them, empowering engineering teams to ship apps faster, more securely, and with a better user experience.
• They believe in us: Stream is backed by leading VC companies (Felicis Ventures, GGV Capital, 01.Advisors, Techstars, Arthur Ventures), including backers like Dick Costolo (01 Advisors, ex-CEO of Twitter), Olivier Pomel (CEO of Datadog), Tom Preston-Werner (Co-Founder of GitHub), Nicolas Dessaigne (Co-Founder of Algolia), Johnny Boufarhat (Founder and CEO of Hopin).
• Complete location and working hours flexibility. If you prefer working from the office, working 100% remotely, combining both, or relocating to our AMS office, you have total freedom to choose what works best for you and makes you happy. We’re here to support you in being productive and feeling part of the team, no matter where you are.

What We Have To Offer You

Stream employees enjoy some of the best benefits in the industry:

• A team of exceptional engineers
• The chance to work on OSS projects
• A combination of 36 days per year in PTO and public holidays
• Company Equity
• Remote work flexibility
• Fitness stipend
• Lunch budget of €25 per week
• A Macbook Pro and work-from-home stipend
• The opportunity to attend or present at global conferences and meetups
• The possibility to visit our offices in Boulder, CO, and Amsterdam, NL
• Legal employment in your country of residence

Our culture

Stream has a casual social culture, our team is diverse and we all have different backgrounds. Now, Stream is a team of over 140+ peers from over 35 countries across the globe.

We value transparency, aim for excellence, and support each other on our way to new victories.

Our team consists of the strongest talents all over the world, which makes Stream a great place to learn and improve your skills.

When it comes to software engineering our culture is oriented towards ownership and quality: our goal is to deliver stable software.

If you are interested in becoming a part of what we do, apply now!

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