Senior Golang Engineer

The project is based in the US and helps fans discover and purchase last-minute tickets to live events, providing an extraordinary experience.

With iOS, Android, mobile web, and desktop platforms supporting more than 100,000 events across the US and Canada, reimagining the event ticket experience in a mobile-first world.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be part of the team that builds and supports the engine that powers the experience for millions of customers. Our customer empowers engineers to own the code they write by fostering a culture that believes in unit testing, code reviews, metrics/instrumentation, and pushing code all the way through to production.

Requirements:

- 6+ years of full-time software engineering experience.
- Proficiency in at least one backend server language (we use Go, Ruby, and Python).
- Production experience with database storage systems – SQL and/or NoSQL (we use MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, and Redshift).
- 3+ years of experience working with a major cloud platform (we’re on AWS).
- Familiarity with Docker and container orchestration systems.
- Experience working with CI/CD tools.
- Experience building high throughput, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.

Bonus Points:

- Experience with ad server tech (RTB systems, matching inventory between suppliers and consumers).
- Experience building microservices and event-driven systems.

Responsibilities:

- Work closely with the Product and Client teams to build new features for the mobile and web products.
- Help design, scale, and A/B test our proprietary algorithms that curate and price inventory to best match our customer’s needs.
- Develop and maintain reliable APIs (both external and internal facing) that support upwards of 500K RPM.
- Lead impactful projects end-to-end from ideation to production launch.
- Influence our customer’s technology and team by giving tech talks and promoting engineering best practices.

We offer:

- Annual paid vacation of 18 working days.
- Extra vacation days for long-lasting cooperation.
- Annual paid illness of 10 days.
- Maternity\Paternity leave.
- The opportunity for sabbatical leave.
- Marriage and Parenthood Package.
- Compensation for sports activities (up to 6000 UAH\year).
- 50 % cost compensation for attending courses for self-development.
- Corporate doctor.
- Internal education(corporate library, Udemy courses).
- Career development plan.
- English and Spanish classes.
- Paying taxes and conducting private entrepreneurs.
- Technical equipment: laptop, mouse, keyboard, monitor.
- Internal Referral program.
- Opportunity to take part in company volunteering activities.
- Technical community events.

About Sombra

Sombra is a software development company that works with US, Canadian, and European clients. We combine deep technological expertise with human values, and value proactivity, making the customers happy, changes, open and honest relationships, and self-development.

We do: UI/UX, Innovative Web Application Development, Mobile App Development, DevOps & Cloud, Blockchain, IoT, AI

Sombra’s mission is to make every effort so that Sombra - a team of people who are beyond passionate about their work - continues to work and grow, despite the trials of the war in Ukraine. We work hard to fulfill the trust and expectations that our clients have put on us, to protect and develop our unique team, and to support other companies facing the challenge of working at such difficult times.

Our Vision - Freedom and Victory!

Today, Sombra has 300+ specialists and continues to expand.
The company’s offices are in Lviv, Kyiv, and Ivano-Frankivsk.
The company supports a hybrid work format in all locations — team members can choose to work remotely or from the company’s offices.

Sombra’s achievements:
On the Clutch platform, Sombra was ranked the best software development company of 2022 and entered the top 5 as a fast-growing and stable Ukrainian IT company.

Sombra is a Ukrainian tech company that continues to work and support the people of Ukraine. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion by russian troops, we have been helping the Armed Forces of Ukraine every day.

Sombra continues to develop and expand rapidly, so we invite you to join our team!

Company website:
https://sombrainc.com/

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