Back-end Engineer

What you will do:

• You will work in a highly dynamic environment within a brand new and talented team.
• Engineer and implement highly scalable systems, using the best development practices and tools
• Help define our development environment, and communicate the best development practices within the organisation (i.e. code reviews, testing, etc)
• Continuously monitor the quality of our systems, design measurements to monitor their health (both the engineering systems and data integrity)
• Keep on top of the latest and greatest developments in distributed systems and the cloud
• Be creative and experiment with new solutions yet pragmatic and committed to code optimisation, maintainability, and quality
• Work closely with other teams (Data Science, Product and UX) at Kufar to drive product development.

Tech stack: Go, Рython, Postgres, Kafka, redis, aws services.

What we expect from you:

• Golang knowledge
• Experience with PostgreSQL
• Good knowledge of microservices architecture
• Experience in building and maintaining systems at scale: service discovery, load balancing, secret management, dynamic request routing, circuit breakers and deployment schemes (rolling updates, canary, etc.)
• Knowledge of TDD and SOLID design principles
• Experience with high traffic systems and distributed systems and databases
• Development best practices used: Pair programming, code review, clean code, CI/CD
• Understands Quality by design, and consistently works with Unit testing, Integration Testing

It's good if you have:

• Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience with Redis
• Experience with DynamoDB
• Experience with Kafka and Kafka Streams
• Experience with monitoring tools preferably Grafana
• Understanding of DDD

Soft skills are important as well:

• Must show initiative, proactively finding and solving product problems
• You love developing good quality software
• You are open and proactive to discuss different software design alternatives
• Ownership and result oriented person
• Have a team-player spirit, which benefits the group vs the individual
• Good written, spoken and interpersonal communication skills
• Technical and business level English is a must

Work with us is comfortable and cool:

• Work with cutting-edge technologies and assets
• Work with OKRs goal setting framework 
• User-friendly office in the historic centre of Minsk (Niamiha district)
• Macbook Pro
• Flexible working hours and smart working
• Medical Insurance
• Sport compensation and AllSports access
• Corporates discounts to a various places
• Access to Netflix & Safari Books
• Training budget
• English language classes
• Team buildings, after-work activities
• 26 vacation days + 6 Social Days
• Breaks with snacks, beverages and coffee (when you work from the office)
• Best colleagues who are ready to sit with your kids or host your cat when you are on vacation
• Salary specified in euro