Backend Engineer Golang

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ROLE:

As a Backend Developer, you will be responsible for designing and building high-performance, scalable, and secure backend systems. You will focus on core application logic, APIs, data models, and integration with relational databases.

You’ll work closely with product managers, frontend developers, DevOps, and QA teams to deliver solutions that meet business needs. At Fountane, we follow a scrum-based Agile delivery cycle, and you will be an active contributor to building efficient and future-ready backend services.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services using Golang.
• Design and manage relational database schemas, queries, and stored procedures in MS SQL.
• Build and optimize RESTful APIs/GraphQL endpoints for high performance and reliability.
• Write clean, efficient, and reusable code with proper documentation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (frontend, product, DevOps) to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Ensure security, scalability, and fault tolerance in backend systems.
• Continuously evaluate and introduce new tools and practices for backend efficiency.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and improve backend services and database performance.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE GREAT IN THIS ROLE:

Experience:

• Associate Level: Minimum 3+ years of backend development experience.
• Senior Level: Minimum 5+ years of backend development experience.

Technical Skills:

• Strong proficiency in Golang for backend development.
• Hands-on experience with MS SQL (queries, indexing, optimization, schema design).
• Solid understanding of API development (REST/GraphQL).
• Experience in microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines is a plus.
• Knowledge of cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure) is preferred.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

SOFT SKILLS:

• Collaboration - Ability to work in teams across the world
• Adaptability - situations are unexpected and need to be quick to adapt
• Open-mindedness - Expect to see things outside the ordinary

LIFE AT FOUNTANE:

• Fountane offers an environment where all members are supported, challenged, recognized & given opportunities to grow to their fullest potential.
• Competitive pay
• Health insurance for spouses, kids, and parents.
• PF/ESI or equivalent
• Individual/team bonuses
• Employee stock ownership plan
• Fun/challenging variety of projects/industries
• Flexible workplace policy - remote/physical
• Flat organization - no micromanagement
• Individual contribution - set your deadlines
• Above all - culture that helps you grow exponentially!
• Qualifications - No bachelor's degree required. Good communication skills are a must!

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Established in 2017, Fountane Inc is a Ventures Lab incubating and investing in new competitive technology businesses from scratch. Thus far, we’ve created half a dozen multi-million valuation companies in the US and a handful of sister ventures for large corporations, including Target, US Ventures, and Imprint Engine.

We’re a team of 120+ strong from around the world that are radically open-minded and believes in excellence, respecting one another, and pushing our boundaries to the furthest it's ever been.

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview:

As an SDE 2 back-end engineer you will be responsible for leading the development and maintenance of the platform/dashboard backend. This would involve architecting, developing & maintaining RESTful services for vulnerability management, scan orchestration, inventory management and platform features such as on-boarding, trust centers, certificates, payment integrations, vulnerability ingestion, authentication etc. 

You should have a strong background in backend programming (Symfony preferred, or Laravel) and have experience with an event driven, async & distributed architecture. 

During the first 6 months of your role, you will be involved in the 0->1 journey of two of our upcoming products in our platform along with the respective product owners.

Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of backend services and APIs using Symfony PHP framework. What you create is also what you own.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Collaborate with scanner teams to orchestrate scans, ingest vulnerabilities, configure scanners etc.
• Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code.
• Optimize and refactor existing code to improve performance and reliability.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Triage, troubleshoot and upgrade existing systems.
• Ship code to production multiple times a day/week.
• Ensure timely delivery of the features.
• Test your own features, and write test cases for continuous automated testing.
• Troubleshoot complex issues, debug, and upgrade existing systems.
• Mentor junior engineers and lead code reviews, promoting best practices and high standards.
• Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy for backend systems.

What we are looking for:

• 4-6 years experience in a similar role or similar working experience.
• Advanced proficiency in PHP backend programming. Symfony preferred, or Laravel.
• Strong understanding of system design, software architecture principles and performance optimization.
• Experience with an event driven (subscribers/listeners), async (MessageHandlers & job queues) & distributed (load-balanced) architecture.
• Experience with PostgreSQL database and data modeling.
• Understanding of concepts such as Dependency Injection, ORM, data validation, error handling etc.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions (good to have).
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
• Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security - helps you stand out.

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company, and working on hard problems that matter.
• Fully remote, agile working environment.
• Good engineering culture with full ownership in design, development, release lifecycle.
• A wholesome opportunity where you get to build things from scratch, improve and ship code to production in hours, not weeks.
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
• Experience with security side of things.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (next one is to Wayanad).
• Open and supportive culture.
• Health insurance & other benefits for you and your spouse. Maternity benefits included.

• Experience in Spring Boot, Jenkins, Git, Hibernate, Kubernetes, and Docker

• Experience in the development of scalable and extensible systems using Java

• Proficiency in Database technology such as MySQL, Oracle and MongoDB

• Routines Sync & Async

• Solid and fluent understanding of algorithm and data structures

• Excellent software design, problem-solving and debugging skills

• Demonstrated high ownership in previous projects

• Excellent Communication Skills

• Good understanding of Elastic Search, Redis

• Experience working in the cloud environment, preferably AWS*.

• Write unit tests and run automated tests through CI/CD

• Ability to learn new and existing technologies

• Experience in building cloud SaaS or PaaS solutions/products

Roles:

• Developing core infrastructure in Python, Django.
• Developing models and business logic (e. g. transactions, payments, diet plan, search, etc).
• Architecting servers and services that enable new product features.
• Building out newly enabled product features

• Minimum 4 years of industry or open-source experience.
• Proficient in at least one OO language: Python(preferred)/Golang/Java.
• Writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code.
• Good knowledge of database structures, theories, principles, and practices.
• Experience working with AWS components [EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, ECS, Lambda].

• Contribute to the architecture, design and implementation of major components for OrchestrationandDay2operations management solution
• Document software design and implementation
• Innovate – stay on top of new technologies
•  Recommend and maintain technical design methodologies, processes, and standards
• Identify and resolve key technical and customer issues

• Strong programming skill in golang
• Strong understanding and experience working with grpc
•  Experience working with mongodb, redis and etcd
•  Experience delivering and consuming cloud native solutions
•  Experience writing Helm Charts and Kubernetes operator is a plus
•  Excellent Understanding of Operating System concepts and exposure working with networking constructssuchas sockets, database management, multithreaded applications
•  Solid understanding of computer architecture such as multi-core CPU scheduling, virtual memory, andcaching
•  Knowledge and experience with network and technologies is a plus (e.g. SSL/TLS, TCP/IP, HTTP, X509, PKI etc)
• Experience with container technologies like Docker, Docker-compose and Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud technologies, AWS, Azure, VMware vSphere is a plus
• Experience working with development tools and process including Git, CI/CD.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 5+ years of related experience: or equivalent experience
• Outstanding interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills - seriously we want people whocancodebut also be on a team

• Deep understanding of technology and passionate about what you do
• Background in designing high performant scalable software systems with strong focus to optimize hardware cost.
• Solid collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively guide and influence within a dynamic environment
• Strong commitment to get the most performance out of a system being worked on.
• Prior development of a large software project using service-oriented architecture operating with real time constraints.

• You will get a chance to work on cloud-native and hyper-scale products
• You will be working with industry leaders in cloud.
• You can expect a steep learning curve.
• You will get the experience of solving real time problems, eventually you become a problemsolver.

• Competitive Salary
• Health Insurance
• Open Learning - 100% Reimbursement for online technical courses
• Fast Growth - opportunities to grow quickly and surely
• Creative Freedom + Flat hierarchy
• Sponsorship to all those employees who represent company in events and meetups.
• Flexible working hours
• 5 days week
• Hybrid Working model (Office and WFH)

• Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process as follows (subject to successful clearing of everyround)
• Initial Resume screening call with our Recruiting team
• Next, candidates will be invited to solve coding exercises.
• Next, candidates will be invited for first technical interview
• Next, candidates will be invited for final technical interview
• Finally, candidates will be invited for Culture Plus interview with HR
• Candidates may be asked to interview with the Leadership team
• Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via email
• As always, the interviews and screening call will be conducted via a mix of telephonic and video call.

Job Description

We are looking for a ROR developer. If you're a creative problem solver who is eager to develop amazing products and hungry for a new adventure, a word class workplace is waiting for you.

• Production experience in Ruby.
• A completed technical degree in Computer Science or any related fields.
• 3+ years of professional product development experience.
• Being comfortable with microservices architectures, API-based
• You are a pragmatic programmer who understands what is needed to get things done.
• Problem solving and collaborative mindset.
• Experience working with DevOps (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform).
• Experience with AWS (RDS, DDB, Lambda, CW, EC2, SQS, SNS, Cognito, Kinesis).
• Experience with performance improvements (Caching Techniques, SQL Query Optimization, Performance monitoring and profiling.
• Deep understanding of service-oriented and microservices architectural patterns, troubleshooting methods and best practices.
• Takes end to end ownership of the development and operation of complete features.

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What you need to have:

Experience: 4 to 7 years