Senior Software Engineer (Golang)
Hybrid,
Office
Ukraine
Our client is a U.S.-based company focused on last-minute ticket sales for sports, concerts, and live events. The backend team builds internal tools and systems that support event management, user handling, and purchase flow.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be part of the team that builds and supports the engine that powers experience for millions of customers. We empower our engineers to own the code they write by fostering a culture that believes in unit-testing, code reviews, metrics/instrumentation, and pushing code all the way through to production.
Requirements:
- 6+ years of full-time software engineering experience.
- Proficiency in at least one backend server language (we use Go, Ruby, Python).
- Production experience with database storage systems – SQL and/or NoSQL (we use MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, Redshift).
- 3+ years of experience working with a major cloud platform (we’re on AWS).
- Familiarity with Docker and container orchestration systems.
- Experience working with CI/CD tools.
- Experience building high-throughput, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.Bonus Points:
- Experience with ad server tech (RTB systems, matching inventory between suppliers and consumers).
- Experience building microservices and event-driven systems.
- English – Upper-Intermediate level.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Product and Client teams to build new features for our mobile and web products.
- Help design, scale, and A/B test our proprietary algorithms that curate and price inventory to best match our customer’s needs.
- Develop and maintain reliable APIs (both external and internal facing) that support upwards of 500K RPM.
- Lead impactful projects end-to-end from ideation to production launch.
- Influence our customers’ technology and team by giving tech talks and promoting engineering best practices.
We offer:
- Annual paid vacation of 18 working days.
- Extra vacation days for long-lasting cooperation.
- Annual paid sick leave of 10 days.
- Maternity/Paternity leave.
- The opportunity for sabbatical leave.
- Marriage and Parenthood Package.
- Compensation for sports activities (up to 250$ per year) or health insurance covering (70%) — after the trial period.
- Internal education(corporate library, Udemy courses).
- Career development plan.
- English and Spanish classes.
- Paying taxes and managing PE (Private Entrepreneur).
- Technical equipment.
- Internal Referral program.
- Opportunity to take part in company volunteering activities.
- Sombra is a “Friendly to Veterans” award holder.
