Senior Backend Developer (Go)

Joom is a platform for shopping from all over the world. Joom helps consumers to make shopping easy and entertaining and provides access to interesting and unique goods from around the world.
Joom is one of the key businesses of Joom Group, an international group of tech-centric group of e-commerce companies founded in 2016 in Latvia. Joom also includes other businesses: JoomPro, the first end-to-end cross-border B2B marketplace, with successful operations in Brazil and plans to expand to other markets; JoomPulse, a data platform that provides analytics and recommendations for marketplace sellers; and Onfy, a pharmaceutical marketplace in Germany. Joom Group has offices in Latvia, China, Germany, and Brazil, with its headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal. We work as one international team, sharing knowledge and collaborating across countries, businesses and products.

We are currently looking for Senior Backend Developers to join the Payments team. It will be necessary to develop a unified payment service (Payments API) that is used for processing payments across all Joom Group projects.

Tech stack: Go, MongoDB, AWS, Kafka, Spark (Scala), gRPC

Responsibilities

• Come up with architecture
• Program in Go (Go is not a must for us; it is more important for a successful candidate to have solid algorithm skills, fundamental technical knowledge, and great coding skills in general)
• Provide fault tolerance for coded services in an AWS environment
• Be prepared for a constant increase of processed and stored data loads and volumes
• Participate in new feature and product development discussions

Requirements

• Confident knowledge of any of the programming languages: Go/Java/Kotlin/C ++/Python/Scala
• Complex project development experience
• Excellent algorithmic training
• Experience in development for Linux / Unix

Preferred

• Experience in people management, leading and coaching others developers
  
• Experience with highload
• Experience with MongoDB
• Experience with Kubernetes

We offer

• Compensation package: base salary and performance-based bonuses
• Office-first: flexible hours with a possibility to work remotely 52 days per year, and 22 days of paid annual leave
• Care & Wellbeing: health insurance (including dental care) for employees and their children, daily meal allowance, and 100% paid sick leave
• Team & Growth: collaboration with colleagues across Portugal, Brazil, Latvia and China, with opportunities for promotions, professional trainings, and English courses
• Community & Engagement: annual team building activities, knowledge-sharing workshops, and a strong sense of team work

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