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.

Cycloid focuses on platform engineering done right. We optimize the developer experience and operational efficiency by accelerating the delivery of a portal and platform, alleviating the cognitive load on IT teams and advocating for FinOps & Green IT practices. With our Internal Developer Portal and Platform, you don't need to start from scratch to get a fully customized solution.

Platform teams design, build and run the platform enabling end-users to visualize, deploy and manage 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 is an Internal Developer Platform and an internal developer Portal with modules around self-service portal and platform orchestration, project lifecycle and ressources management, FinOps and GreenOps and plugins. 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!

One goal: to make our internal developer platform and portal the leading platform tool in the world, done sustainably.

Sounds like a plan, right?

What is my challenge ?

We devide 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
• 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 Mindest/interest

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 workshops per year somewhere in the EU

How we manage from now

Join us in creating the future of internal developer platform and portal:

• 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
• References call
• ...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.