Side is seeking an experienced Backend (Go) Developer to join our team in the heart of Paris.

Using your 3+ years of backend development experience you’ll build bulletproof cutting edge web-services. Scale our microservices architecture to propose an outstanding experience to thousands of freelancers -Siders- eager to work differently, day after day.

Work with the product team and your squad to:

In the short-term:

• Master the existing backend codebase.
• Improve the -already existing- qualification system to translate profiles’ soft and hard skills into structured and reusable data.
• Leverage the qualification system to improve the matching between profiles and tasks.

In the medium-term:

• Contribute to the future architecture that’ll enable Siders to manage their schedule and availabilities through Side.
• Strengthen our microservices processes by pushing forward gateway architecture.
• Aim for a fault-tolerant microservices architecture to handle the unforeseen.

Must-haves:

• 3+ years experience in Golang / C / C++ or any low level programming language.
• Specific experience in Golang.
• Solid basis in database-interfacing API versioning.
• Strong knowledge of REST and HTTP design patterns and their evolutions.
• TDD mindset.
• Optimisation approach.
• Comfortable with peer-coding, code-reviews, etc.

Bonus skills:

• Experience interfacing different database types (no-sql to sql etc).
• Mastery of WebSocket, async patterns, alternative communication protocols to interface systems.
• DevOps mindset - you know your pipeline.