Backend Developer (Montreal Canada Only/Golang Experience Required)

Company: Distance
Work Type: Full-time
Salary Range: TBD

About Distance

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

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience building highly optimized back-end solutions in Protobuf, gRPC, and GraphQL
• 4+ years of solid experience in Golang (must-have)
• 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, HubSpot, 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 their problems

• A passion for performance, user experience, and design

• A high bar for the quality of code and quality of user experience