Senior Software Engineer Back-End (Go)

AUTODOC is the largest and fastest growing auto parts ecommerce platform in Europe.
Present across 27 countries with around 5,000 employees, AUTODOC generated revenue of over €1.3 billion in 2023, supplying more than 7.4 million active customers with its 5.8 million vehicle parts and accessories for car, truck, and motorcycle brands.
Curious minds, adventurous experts and tech-savvy professionals - one team, one billion euros revenue. Catch the ride!

The Senior Go Developer will play a pivotal role in developing and maintaining our distributed user behavior analytics and e-commerce tracking system. This professional will be responsible for multiple services ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability of the entire system, enabling company to gain valuable insights into user behavior for data-driven decision-making.

Responsibilities:

• Software development: design, develop, and maintain scalable services, focusing on high-performance event processing, data collection, and analytics systems
• Architecture management: contribute to the evolution of our distributed system architecture, ensuring proper integration between services, effective event processing, and data flow optimization
• System monitoring: implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and tracing to ensure system health and performance
• Security and compliance: ensure proper implementation of security measures for user data handling and session management
• Performance optimization: identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across the distributed system, optimizing data collection and processing workflows for large-scale analytics
• Technical leadership: conduct code reviews, provide mentorship, and contribute to technical decision-making across multiple services
• Collaborate with distributed team members across different time zone

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of professional software development experience, with at least 3 years focused on Go:
  - Deep understanding of Go concurrency patterns (goroutines, channels, context)
  - Experience with async processing and concurrent data handling
  - Proficiency in implementing thread-safe data structures
• Strong expertise in distributed systems, including experience with:
  - Event-driven architectures and message queuing (Kafka)
  - gRPC and Protocol Buffers
  - RESTful APIs and WebSocket implementations
• Infrastructure and DevOps skills:
  - Docker containerization and orchestration
  - GitLab CI/CD pipelines
  - Experience with cloud platforms and understanding of cloud pricing models
• Monitoring and Observability:
  - OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing
  - Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboards
• Problem-solving skills: excellent problem-solving and debugging skills, with a keen eye for detail
• English level: Intermediate

Will be as a plus:

• High-load distributed systems
• Traffic analysis and bot detection
• Data warehousing solutions (particularly Snowflake)
• Security best practices for session management

We offer:

• Stable employment in the fast-growing international company 
• International career in a multicultural environment with lots of opportunities to grow 
• Annual vacation of 28 calendar days and 1 additional day off on your birthday
• Health Insurance for access to various high-quality medical services (doctor visits, diagnostics, medical treatment)
• Mental Wellbeing Program – the opportunity for free psychological counseling for you and your family members 24/7 hotline and online sessions
• Opportunities for advancement, further trainings (over 650 courses on soft and hard skills on our e-learning platform) and coaching
• Free English and German language classes
• Flexible working hours and hybrid work 

Join us today and let’s create a success story together!