Senior Go Developer (offline)

Required Skills
• Extensive experience in software development
• Experience in implementing microservices
• Extensive experience of Go
• Experience with one or more scripting languages
• MySQL, PostgreSQL or other similar relational databases and ability to write complex SQL queries and troubleshoot database performance issues
• Day to day use of Linux on both the desktop and server
Networking, DNS, load balancing etc
• Solid understanding of a variety of programming tools and development platforms
• Excellent organisational and leadership abilities
• Highly analytical mindset, with an ability to see both the big picture and the details
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Server and network monitoring and management tools
• Good understanding of application security
• Testing and writing unit tests
• Git (and in particular GitHub) — very comfortable branching, creating pull requests and merging
• Excellent English language skills

Great To Have
• ElasticSearch
• Message/job queues (utilising software such as RabbitMQ)
• ClickHouse, Redis
• System automation tools, such as Ansible or Puppet
• Docker/Containerisation

Benefits & Additional Info

Salary
Competitive pay with yearly salary review.
Training
We’re keen to invest in our team’s continued success with regular training and conference opportunities, we also like to have fun with regular team building days which include activities like paragliding, quad biking and sailing to name but a few!
Holidays
We offer paid holidays dependent on location and contract (plus public holidays) and you get a day off for your birthday too.
Charity Days
You have the option to spend six working days of each year volunteering at a charity of your choice.
Company Bonus
Every team member enters into our company bonus scheme which is worth up to 20% of your annual salary.
Private Healthcare
Every team member also gets access to private healthcare.
COVID Update
Throughout COVID the team have been working remotely to avoid spreading the virus.
BrightLocal has remained profitable throughout the pandemic with no redundancies and no team members placed on furlough. We’re incredibly fortunate and remain on track to hit our revenue and growth goals in 2021.

About Brightlocal

We built BrightLocal to help every marketer working with a local business do their job better. Our tools and services have already helped over 80,000 local marketers deliver success for their brands and clients, and we’re just getting started.

Whether you’re looking to boost local rankings, increase online visibility, build citations, develop an amazing online reputation, or even grow your marketing agency, BrightLocal’s powerful tools make local marketing success simple.

Local marketers use BrightLocal to showcase their expertise, so it’s only fitting that expertise runs through everything we do. Our team of passionate local SEO experts constantly stays on top of the ever-changing world of local marketing, so we can evolve our offering to ensure our customers stay three steps ahead of the competition.

With over 150 staff working in four countries, we’re better positioned than ever before to develop best-in-class products. We also pride ourselves on publishing insightful research and providing exceptional service for the thousands of agency, brand, and local business customers who trust BrightLocal to give them a competitive advantage.

We’re keen to invest in our team’s continued success with regular training and conference opportunities, we also like to have fun with regular team-building days which include activities like cycling, wakeboarding, karting, canoeing and cocktail making to name but a few!

Support during the war:
The safety of our team members is our number one concern. Here’s where our energies have been focused:
• Finding homes for team members and their families to move to western Ukraine and Europe
• Supporting team members in their physical relocation
• Giving all team members full flexibility to work from wherever, and whenever they want (in Ukraine and abroad)
• Giving donations to charities and funds that support Ukrainian people and military personnel. Raised $115,000 for Ukraine humanitarian aid — BrightLocal team delivered aid personally from UK to Ukraine

Please take a look at our Glassdoor profile to find out more about the type of business and employer we are:
https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Jobs/BrightLocal-Jobs-E2096468.htm

Company website:
https://www.brightlocal.com/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/brightlocal/