Back-End Developer Golang - CDI - Remote / Paris

About us

Side is a digital temp agency with a people-focused approach. It was launched in 2016 by 4 friends just out of college. They were convinced that technology could help create an easier, empowering and more reliable work experience.
In May 2022, Side joined the randstad group to have a greater impact on the temporary employment market, and to perpetuate its business model.
Side will benefit from the expertise of the group, business knowledge and network of agencies and worldwide subsidiaries. It will expand while keeping the start-up DNA, speed of execution and dynamic atmosphere that always existed.
Side gathers a team of 70+ employees, all focused on creating the best work experience in France, as well as 300,000 “Siders” and 2,000 clients - from start-ups to large corporations (Stuart, Leroy Merlin, Accor Hotels, Frichti…).

Our values

1. Fight For “Yes”- stay positive, no matter what, even when things don’t go as planned. Look for solutions and live the journey with enthusiasm. Thrive on big wins as well as smaller accomplishments.

2. Be Champions - think big! Putting ourselves in the user’s shoes, building the best work experience through creativity, excellence and commitment. Working to improve ourselves and have a real impact on the future of work, in France and worldwide.

3. Be Buddies - Side was a team before it was a company. Collective interests prevail over personal interests. Empathy and solidarity with others is required. It’s encouraged to communicate regularly about how we feel, especially when working remotely.

The products

Side’s mission is to empower people and organizations by providing a meaningful work experience.
For the past 5 years, Side has been leveraging its technical and business expertise to improve employment by offering a reliable and human work experience. Product development is core to our strategy and is now focused on 3 main axis:

• Instantly access job offers that match my profile: as a Sider (temporary worker), I can apply for offers that match my preferences, train & learn, get paid, all of this directly within a fluid and intuitive mobile app;
• Easily manage my HR & Admin needs: as a company, I can post my job offers online in a few guided steps, access my weekly schedule, sign my contracts and validate my hours on a single web platform;
• Centralize the selection and admin management of Siders on a single platform: as a member of the Side operational team, I can very quickly check the identity of the temp workers, assess the candidates’ skills, select the right profiles for the job offers, generate invoices on a single tool while limiting errors and operational burden.

Your future team

The Product team is a close-knit team driven by strong values shaped over the years. Joining Side means joining a team of a dozen people with diverse expertise who value:

Care - We are driven and genuinely care. We care about what we do, we care about the way we do it, and we care about our impact. We also value a positive mindset. When things don’t go as planned, we take a step back in order to better move forward;
Learn - We love to learn so we are comfortable taking up new challenges. We learn from past mistakes: embrace failures when they happen and keep on improving;
Understand - We do our best to empathize with others: people usually don’t mean bad, it’s important to put ourselves in their shoes. Everyone has different priorities that’s why understanding context is key;
Go beyond - We look for more and make extra efforts to expand our scope. We are curious, ask questions to provide way more than technical answers. Our goal is to solve true problems that our users encounter.;
High standards - We make sure to think of sustainable solutions based on vetted systems. We are methodic, organised and demanding on our work both as individuals and as a team. We stick to our word because the team counts on us.

Side ensures a fair and unbiased treatment of the received application. We consider each application without looking at race, ethnicity, age, political opinions, religion, gender, sexual orientation, medical history or disability.

Role

Side is a temp agency startup which relies on an end to end digital experience! In the coming months and years we plan to grow in order to offer the best temp work product in France and beyond.
We are looking for a back-end engineer. As a back-end at Side, your goal will be to work on all the parts of our products, from mobile to web, in a microservice architecture. Working within our product team, you’ll be able to participate in the feature decisions and grow personally and professionally in a challenging and enjoyable environment.

So if you want to build the best scalable product in the market with very talented and passionate people, join us!

Missions

• Discover and own part of the back-end codebase
• Do a whole development cycle, from specs to coding, releasing and post release monitoring
• Unify and refactor our codebase to match our current quality standards
• Master peer coding and peer reviewing
• Release majors features using latest standards and stack
• Enhance our implementations of concurrency
• Improve and unify unit testing in order to keep your code highly error proof
• Use your knowledge to challenge and improve our habits, patterns and libraries
• Prepare for internationalization and at least x2 scale by building scalable code

Your profile

• If not Golang - C / C++, Rust or any memory/thread/low-level language knowledge
• Proven experience in databases usage
• Proven experience in version control tools like git
• Proven experience and knowledge of REST and HTTP design patterns
• Experience in unit testing
• Experience in working in UNIX environment
• Be able to explain and clearly describe your technical problems to your peers
• Code reviews mechanism and benefits are known to you
• Comfortable in working (remotely) with a remote team, in an autonomous way
• Good english level (spoken and written)

Bonus

• Previous experiences with working in a startup and fast paced environment (large scope, release often, etc
• Previous experiences with working in a multi-platform product (web, mobile)
• Previous experiences with microservices architecture
• Extended knowledge in different databases (no-sql - mongodb, sql, distributed stores, in memory stores, etc.)
• Experience in several communication patterns (REST, gRPC, Websockets, etc.)
• Experience in scripting languages (js, python)

What Side offers

• An exciting job within a dedicated team working on an interesting, challenging and central topic: Work
• Ownership and responsibility
• Frequent team events : Team buildings, Monthly Kickoffs, Offsites, Afterworks …
• Flexible offices (WeWork) located in the center of Paris when you don’t work remotely
• Choose your hardware, mac / windows / linux
• 9€ / worked day lunch card (Swile)
• 9j RTT / year
• Monthly allowance for transportation or remote work (50€ / month)
• Good healthcare (Alan)
• Transparent communication, regular 1:1, followup and quarter reviews

Recruitment process

1. First call with someone from the Product Team - 30min.
2. Technical assessment over a 48h period
3. Culture Fit Interview with a manager from the Product team - 1h30min
4. Meet the team, around an extended coffee break or lunch - 1h~1h30min
5. Offer 🎉