Offer summary

Qualifications:

5-10 years of professional software development experience., Strong proficiency in Go with 3+ years of production experience., Experience with SQL databases like Postgres or Redshift., Knowledge of building distributed backend services and scalable APIs..

Key responsibilities:

Improve and scale Brave's backend services written in Go.

Develop and maintain robust APIs ensuring high performance.

Collaborate with distributed development teams in an open source environment.

Help protect user privacy and security through software solutions.

Job description

Sr. Software Engineer

Remote - North America, UK. EU

About Brave

Brave is on a mission to protect the human right to privacy online. We’ve built a free web browser that blocks creepy ads and trackers by default, a private search engine with a truly independent index, a browser-native crypto wallet, and a private ad network (opt-in!) that directly rewards you for your attention. And we’re just getting started. Already 90 million people have switched to Brave for a faster, more private web. Millions more switch every month.

The internet is a sea of ads, hackers, and echo chambers. Big Tech makes huge profits off our data, and tells us what’s true and what’s not. Brave is fighting back. Join us!

Summary

Brave is looking for an engineer who can help us improve and scale our services. VPN, Leo, Talk and others rely on our backend service infrastructure to deliver a private, premium experience to our users. These services are written entirely in Go and deployed as services onto AWS. We are looking for an experienced Go engineer who can take whole solutions from end to end.

Requirements

5-10 years of experience building software professionally
Strong proficiency in Go, with 3+ years of production-level experience building backend systems in Go
Experience with SQL, Postgres/Redshift, and building analytics queries
Experience building distributed backend services and robust APIs ensuring high performance and scalability
Experience with software development via distributed development teams
Comfort working in an open source setting
A passion for helping protect users’ privacy and security
Written and verbal communication skills in English
Proven record of shipping

Nice to haves

Familiarity with cloud platforms (ideally AWS)
Familiarity with building and working with subscription and online payment systems
Familiarity with challenges in privacy preserving ecosystems

Working at Brave

Industry-leader in privacy, with a research and engineering team that’s innovating everyday to keep people safer online and beat Big Tech
Highly competitive salaries & benefits, and generous home-office stipends
Fully remote team (no office, no commute)
Welcoming, humble, ridiculously smart teammates, and a truly flat org structure
Opportunity to get in early at a hyper-growth company, and revolutionize the web
Oh, and did we mention Brendan, our CEO & co-founder, invented JavaScript?

United States Candidates: The salary range for this role is $150,000 - $200,000 USD, depending on experience.