Sr Backend Go Engineer (EST or CST only) - remote

Hatch
Posted 4 years ago
We want you!
We're looking for experienced, super ambitious, product-minded folks to join our rapidly growing engineering team.

We are remote-first
Our main office is located in Richmond, VA, but the majority of our engineers are distributed. This particular role needs to be able to work on east-coast time!

Our tech + how we work
Our core backend is built with Go, but we are constantly exploring tech that best fits the needs of our customers and engineers.

We believe in using the best tools for the job, and value engineering expertise over language prowess.

We value: documentation, test coverage, documentation, code review, documentation, CI/CD and documentation.

We predominantly communicate over Slack, making little use of email internally. We do daily standups each morning via Google Hangouts. Github is our repo tool of choice and we track progress and requirements via Jira.

You should apply if...
You're passionate about building beautifully crafted software and creating awesome developer experiences.

You want to build a product you would use yourself, and bring your unique insight and perspective to the table as an engineer in shaping our overarching product offering.

You like solving big problems. Our greatest challenges are on the horizon, and we'll need experienced, intelligent, hard-working and creative minds to solve foundational infrastructure challenges to further establish Hatch as the leading B2C messaging platform.

You value collaboration, autonomy, moving fast and getting lots done. We have no time or interest for bureaucracy and micromanagement — we're moving fast and you'll be required to take responsibility for delivering end to end to product.

You want to make a huge impact, and share in the success of a company you've helped build.

You may be a fit for this role if you
  • Have a strong technical background, including 7+ years of experience building impactful products or systems
  • Have 2+ years of expert-level Go experience
  • Have incredible communication skills and are a joy to work with
  • Enjoy doing anything it takes to solve problems and see projects through to completion
  • Take pride in designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and systems at scale
  • Find improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes rewarding
  • Uphold best practices in engineering, security and design
  • Hold yourself and others to a high level of accountability when working with production
  • Can effectively debug complex problems across the whole stack
  • Enjoy doing whatever it takes to solve problems and delight users
  • Have experience with AWS
  • Have experience with real-time web - WebSockets / WebRTC
  • Have experience with CI/CD


What you will do
Thrive in a collaborative environment developing and executing against immediate and long term roadmaps and making effective tradeoffs considering business priorities, but always with the user experience in mind
Write high quality, performant code that sees tons of exposure and user feedback in a growing, fast-pace, startup environment

Advise Hatch’s leadership team on key technical considerations related to the future of our technology stack and product roadmap

Teach and mentor junior ICs to become the next generation of top-tier engineers at Hatch
Inform critical decisions with consideration for software best practices, Hatch’s system design, and product roadmap

Scrutinize and reason clearly about the technology and architecture choices we make in building platforms or products/services at Hatch

Serve as a role model for software design and scalable systems architecture by developing, sharing, and setting the bar for engineering quality