Senior Go backend Developer

About us

This role is fully remote, you can be located anywhere in Europe and UK.

Hi there! Thanks for being here and let’s get started.

At Cycloid, we aim to promote efficient infrastructure & software delivery alongside digital sobriety. We do this by optimizing platform engineering, alleviating the cognitive load on IT teams, and advocating for Green IT and FinOps practices. Our mission is to enable a future where technology and sustainability can coexist harmoniously, leaving a lasting positive legacy.

Platform teams design, build and run the platform enabling end-users to visualize and deploy existing and new projects, interact with cutting-edge DevOps and Cloud automation without the need to become an expert, while keeping best practices in place, cloud expenses under control with a minimum carbon footprint.

Cycloid, a sustainable engineering platform, provides a frictionless self-service portal with modules around Self-service portal and orchestration, infrastructures and resources management and FinOps and GreenOps. It can be consumed through the console, in CLI or in API.

At Cycloid, we’re an open organization meaning that your voice and point of view will have a true impact on how we work and the decisions we make. So, as you can imagine, we’re looking for someone who is keen on sharing his/her ideas and opinions. Don’t be shy!

In fact, every year, you will be meeting the teams face-to-face in order to discuss the product roadmap and the next key developments we want to implement.

One goal: to make our sustainable platform engineering the leading platform in the world.

Sounds like a plan, right?

What is my challenge?

We divide it into three because we are convinced that we grow throughout our professional journey.

• Short term: understand and comprehend the codebase.

• Midterm: contribute to the codebase comfortably by adding new features and fixing bugs.

• Long-term: contribute to the high-level roadmap of the company and be part of major discussions about future features and developments.

You will be joining a team of experienced Backend Developers and be a key part of the development of our new features. Have you heard of our freshly baked Cost Explorer feature yet?

Your day-to-day will be made of:

• Contributing to the features you choose to work on by defining those features with the rest of the team or working on those directly.
• Developing in Go.
• Reviewing others' code.
• Communicating with the rest of the team and helping others when needed.

But not only: there's room for initiative and propositions because we also believe that the best job positions are the ones we build together.

What should I bring to the table?

Your Must-Have includes:

• Minimum 5 years experience as a backend developer.
• Go/Golang and testing (Unit/E2E).
• MySQL.
• HTTP API/JSON (swagger) & co.
• Keeping up to date with best practices and new technologies.
• Good knowledge of git and Github.
• Full English proficiency - both writing and speaking.
• Full remote work experience.
• Honest/Straightforward.
• Benevolent.
• Not taking things too seriously :D.

Your nice to have could be:

• Mature.
• Docker.
• Workers.
• DDD/TDD.
• Ops Knowledge (Elasticsearch, Terraform, Concourse).
• Cloud providers.
• OSS Mindset/interest.

How we manage from now

Join us in creating the future of platform engineering:

• Send us your CV or LinkedIn at jobs@cycloid.io.
• Talent person contacts you for a check.
• You take the Tech test to check on your Backend hard skills.
• You meet with the Backend team at large after the test review.
• ...and we set a start date!

Cycloid is committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone, so don’t think twice: contact us! We’ll be glad to chat no matter what.

What we bring to the table

Working together should be a win-win situation for everyone involved. Here is what we bring to our side of the table:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Flexible and transparent work environment, including 100% remote work in Europe.
• Opportunity to work with a passionate and friendly team on impactful projects.
• Professional development opportunities and support for continued learning.
• A commitment to sustainability and making a positive impact on the environment.
• Home office setup up to €1200.
• Choose your own device spirit.
• 1 retreat workshop per year somewhere in the EU.