Paris or full remote from Western EU - (senior: 75/95k) (mid 55/75k) + shares

We’re looking for someone to be a Senior Back-end Engineer at Kiln. In this role, you’ll be responsible for:

1) Building the product: You’ll be working closely with the Product and Infrastructure teams to plan, architect, and implement our core product. You’ll take part in the construction of the roadmap, with the rest of the team. In this role, it includes:

• Development of data aggregators for blockchains

• Development of new Golang micro-services within the Kiln stack

• Taking part to automation & deployment processes

• Framework development

2) Owning what you build: As you architect, test, and refine the Kiln platform, you will ensure that our services communicate with each other seamlessly, have minimal downtime, and recover quickly (daytime, no on-calls)

3) Helping grow the Team: Everyone on the early team plays an important role in attracting, closing, and growing other talented team members. You can also mentor or brainstorm with other backend developers.

Our stack

• Mostly in Golang with a bit of Javascript and Typescript

• Communication between services is done using HTTP Rest and most of our databases are backed by PostgreSQL

• Everything runs in EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) on AWS

Skills & background

• Strong judgment with the ability to ship opinionated architectural choices and code, and to share software best practices

• Strong communication skills both in French & English to facilitate design of scalable architectures with SREs

• Golang (over 1 year of experience)

• Over 4 years of experience designing, building, and deploying user-facing, infrastructure related, and/or API-based products

• Experience coding in Javascript and Typescript is a plus

• Experience working with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Continuous Integration is a plus

• Familiarity with Hashicorp Vault is a plus

Soft skills

• Curiosity and ability to dig into a topic and follow through

• Team spirit: discuss, do not try to impose

• Be pragmatic to not over-engineer unnecessarily: startups need to quickly adapt

• Own what is coded and shipped to production

• Trust & clear communication

• Real interest in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space

What we offer

• A fast-paced, no bureaucratic work environment

• Equity Share Options in the business: if Kiln succeeds, we all succeed!

• Competitive Salary

• Unlimited holiday

• Flexible/remote working

• Significant personal development and wellness budget

• Recruiter Phone screen (45 min) with Myriam

• Take-home case study (don’t worry it’s not so long)

• Technical interview (1h15 min): focused on coding, code review, algorithms + for seniors Architecture interview (45min)

• Product & Cultural fit (45min) with Thomas (COO) or Ernest (CPO)

• Meeting with founder (30 min): Laszlo

• Offer