Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
Join a dynamic backend team building high‑volume APIs that serve millions of requests daily. The role focuses on Go, container orchestration, and cloud services, with opportunities to work on event‑driven systems and machine learning pipelines. The position offers a hybrid schedule, competitive pay, and equity, and is based in a major city with flexible remote options.
Highlights
Hybrid schedule with office days, competitive salary and equity, high‑traffic APIs, modern containerized stack, opportunities to work on event‑driven systems and machine learning pipelines.
Description
London, UK - Hybrid (Tue, Wed & Thur in Office)
Outside London - remote possible
£60,000 - £80,000 + equity
We love Golang, HTTP, gRPC and containers!
Come and join our backend team and design, build and support APIs that are requested tens of millions of times per day as well as internal tools that keep our community safe and our business efficient.
We run a modern containerised stack in AWS using a mixture of database technologies (MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Redshift, Elasticsearch) to serve different workloads.
Our architecture is event-driven and we’re bringing increasingly more machine learning into the hotpath.
Our platform ingests tens of millions analytic events every day which are visualised in our BI tools and we make data-driven decisions daily.
If you’re looking to work on complicated technical challenges at scale then this role is for you.
Ideally you have several years experience using Go in production.
You’ll be comfortable with Docker, and familiar with modern observability tools such as Prometheus, Alert Manager, Grafana and X-Ray/Tempo/Jaeger.
Take a look at some of the interesting projects our team have been working on recently 👉 https://engineering.muzz.com
What you'll accomplish
Collaborating on building new product features for our members.Building highly secure services (we handle sensitive personal data).Improving performance with investigative work.Troubleshooting problems across distributed systems.Understanding and automating away common problems.Tackling challenging production issues as part of a supportive on-call team.Building internal tools to support your colleagues.
What we're looking for
3+ years tackling hard backend problemsSeasoned database experience – we use MySQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch and RedisExperience with microservices and distributed systemsUsed to developing complex services from requirements to shippingWilling to learn new skills and really get stuck inBags of common sense with the raw ability and energy to make things happen, a real entrepreneurial spiritBonus points:
Familiarity with building on the cloud AWS services – we use over 40 AWS servicesExperience working with ML technologiesProtocols such as websockets and XMPP
Technology we love
Go, Python, PHPProtocol buffers, gRPCNode, TypescriptMySQL, RedisElasticsearch, DynamoDBContainerisation, Lambda
