Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) - Foundry Products

We need an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to help us achieve this. You'll help shift the technological landscape within the company through experimentation and auditing of emerging tech stacks while shaping the way new technology is introduced to, and adopted by, new audiences throughout the world.

What you'll accomplish here:

• Own backend projects from scoping to production deployment.
• Prototype new concepts from scratch and help improve the backend on products with more than 100k monthly active users.
• Partner closely with Product and Design on strategy.

Our ideal candidate:

• Quickly gains proficiency when exposed to unfamiliar technical patterns, systems, or languages.
• Hacker at heart, you are able to spin up new MVPs and deliver the highest value for minimal effort.
• Product-minded, you care about the "why" behind product decisions and have empathy for the users. Capable of providing product/engineering trade-offs when offering solutions.
• Strong communicator who can collaborate well with other non-technical functions (e.g. Product & Design).
• Has the courage to try out new tools, fail fast, and dive into unknowns to solve new and challenging problems.

Bonus points for the following:

• Familiarity with our commonly used technology choices (Golang, Postgres, Node, Javascript).
• Understanding of the deployment process, and comfort with Docker, containers, Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of application and API security.
• You’ve scaled products before.

About

ZenHub is the leading team collaboration and project management suite built into GitHub and GitHub Enterprise. At ZenHub, every team member is charged with getting to know customers deeply, learning how to solve their toughest problems, and turning them into evangelists.

Our customers are smart cookies: some of the best teams at companies like IBM, Imgur, NASA, Microsoft, Docker, and Zenefits use ZenHub to stay in the zone. Ideal team members are technical enough to get their hands dirty and product-focused enough to help translate customer requests into product features.

At ZenHub we recruit the best and foster an environment that empowers our team. That means a workplace that is diverse, inclusive, and open-minded. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, regardless of race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.