Job description

Position: Back-end Developer (Remote)

Client: Distance

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Work Hours: Full-time, EST Hours

Distance is the all-in-one customer experience platform built for service business. Our customers are independent service business owners across North-America. Our mission is to deepen the relationship between our merchants and their customers - leading to more profitable local businesses. We’re passionate about contributing to the development of local economies.

Our founders and leaders come from the commerce technology space. We are searching for experienced, self-motivated, and passionate software developers looking to be part of something groundbreaking.

You should be a self-starter who enjoys solving difficult problems. We are looking for developers who can take on and own projects and responsibilities.

Responsibilities

Research, design, and develop systems of upstream services leveraging the latest back-end technologies
Evaluate the application of new tools & technologies as they continually evolve
Maintain and extend existing services to support our downstream applications
Maintain and scale our existing cloud infrastructure
Help to promote best practices within the team

Requirements

4+ years of experience building highly optimized back-end solutions in Golang, Protobuf, gRPC, and GraphQL
2+ years of experience in managing resources in Google Cloud Platform using Terraform IAC (or similar). Experience in managing a Kubernetes cluster is a must
Experience building back-end APIS and integrations to CRMs (Zapier, Quickbooks, Hubpost, Salesforce, Pipedrive, etc.)
Strong knowledge of common algorithms and data structures
Strong experience in building reliable, performant, maintainable, and testable code—with proper abstraction
Experience building communication and telephony products is a plus (Twilio API, Email/SMTP, SMS, VoIP)
A collaborative spirit and the ability to work effectively within a team
Proficient in English with good writing and communication skills
Work in Eastern Standard North American time zone

Background & Characteristics

Willingness to work hard and achieve very ambitious goals
An ability to think through customer requirements to come up with high-impact ways of quickly solving problems