Senior Go Engineer - remote

Textile is a lab dedicated to building and exploring new technology to help decentralize consumer applications. We believe that the world’s most valuable future technology will be built on a new model where individuals have complete agency over the data they create. Our mission is to make that future happen faster.Textile is known for building simple yet powerful developer tools that extend three families of protocols: Libp2p, IPFS, and Filecoin. You can learn more about our tools by reviewing our documentation and checking out some of our GitHub organization. We are a fully open source company with a strong focus on community. We are a small, fully remote team (Twitter list) aligned in our vision to change the relationship between technology and personal data. Are you passionate about technology and want to have a significant impact on its future? Then join us! Our community, vision, and product make for an exciting place where self-directed, collaborative, good people will thrive.

Role Overview As a Senior Go Engineer you will be responsible for writing and maintaining code on the Textile Go libraries, including Threads, Buckets, Hub, and Powergate (GitHub Org). This role is for someone with strong coding experience. Your work will be open source.This is a remote only position. We are looking to fill this position soon.

Ideal Experience and Skills

• 2+ years Golang experience.
• Skilled communicator with excellent communication and documentation skills.
• High levels of intellectual curiosity, professionalism, and self-motivation.
• Self-starter with interest in influencing and making critical product decisions.
• Open-source project experience. GitHub/GitLab links greatly appreciated.
• Familiarity with IPFS or related technologies.
• Attention to detail and a passion for software design.

Perks

• Contribute to technology at the forefront of the web.
• Work with a company on a mission to have a positive impact.
• Work on a fully remote team.
• Work on a small, passionate team.
• An entrepreneurial opportunity where you can have oversized impacts.
• Opportunity to drive innovation and strategy.
• Your work will be open source.

Location

Textile is a fully remote company spanning GMT -3 to GMT -7 (North America &South America). While being small, we’ve found that it is helpful to have a high level of overlap as a team, so we will give preference to applicants that fall within or close to those timezones.Learn more about us at https://textile.io, https://docs.textile.io, and see some of our output on @textileio.