Senior Golang Developer (m/w/x)
We are a young Berlin start-up that supports sustainability and also lives it in our day-to-day business. We are looking for a Senior Golang Developer (m/w/x) in Berlin or Heidelberg at the earliest possible date.
Responsibilities
- Drive the expansion of our platform's capabilities through strategic feature development and continuous improvement efforts, with a heavy focus on backend.
- Define and enforce architectural and infrastructural standards, prioritizing robust and modern technologies while avoiding unnecessary tech trends.
- Develop a deep understanding of complex business processes in order to refine and support them working together with multiple stakeholders across all departments.
- Reconcile specifications and strategy with external boundary conditions (e.g. product standards, operational constraints, market regulations).
- Document architecture and design decisions and communicate them with ease in order to educate engineering teams and product managers.
- Ensure that goals and milestones are met while balance long term and short-term priorities and managing technical debt.
- Develop broad knowledge of capabilities and constraints across the german energy market, metiundo specifics as well as integrated external systems.
Profile
- You have a university degree in Computer Science, a related field or an equivalent qualification.
- You have 5+ years of professional experience developing software in backend services.
You have at least 3 years of experience in programming in Golang.
It is an advantage if this is complemented with one or more typical backend languages, for example Java,Kotlin, TypeScript, Rust, etc. - You are proficient in designing and optimizing relational database schemas, particularly PostgreSQL.
- You tackle challenges with healthy pragmatism and can distinguish between bike-shedding and the important decisions that have impact in the long run.
- You bring strong project management skills and clear communication, providing constructive feedback to colleagues & decision makers.
- You are comfortable with Linux, working in a terminal and know how to use git.
- Bonus points: You worked with time-series/IoT-data platforms before and gathered experience in the German energy market.
- Fluency in written and spoken English is required, with German skills being desirable.
What we offer
- A job that lays the foundations for using energy and water sustainably and consciously.
- Permanent position with a fixed salary of between EUR 75 - 85 thousand.
- Flexible trust-based working hours, part-time option, at least two days of mobile working per week, individual training plan and regular feedback meetings.
- Germany ticket or job bike, as well as an office with very good public transport connections.
- A green and dog-friendly office, terrace, free drinks and ice cream.
- Complete technical equipment.
- 30 vacation days/year.
- Company pension scheme.
- Family-friendly approach to reporting short-term illnesses in children.
