Golang Developer

About us

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 8300+ 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 at Astra, you will play a crucial role in the development of a new vulnerability scanner from scratch. You will be architecting & engineering a scalable technical solution from the ground-up.

You will have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals, collaborating to deliver innovative solutions and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in vulnerability scanning. The role requires deep collaboration with the founders, product, engineering & security teams.

Join our team and contribute to the development of a cutting-edge SaaS security platform, where high-quality engineering and continuous learning are at the core of everything we do.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• You will be joining our Vulnerability Scanner team which builds a security engine to identify vulnerabilities in technical infrastructure.
• You will be the technical product owner of the scanner, which would involve managing a lean team of backend engineers to ensure smooth implementation of the technical product roadmap.
• Research about security vulnerabilities, CVEs, and zero-days affecting cloud/web/API infrastructure.
• Work in an agile environment of engineers to architect, design, develop and build our microservice infrastructure.
• You will research, design, code, troubleshoot and support (on-call). What you create is also what you own.
• Writing secure, high quality, modular, testable & well documented code for features outlined in every sprint.
• Design and implement APIs in support of other services with a highly scalable, flexible, and secure backend using GoLang
• Hands-on experience with creating production-ready code & optimizing it by identifying and correcting bottlenecks.
• Driving strict code review standards among the team.
• Ensuring timely delivery of the features/products
• Working with product managers to ensure product delivery status is transparent & the end product always looks like how it was imagined
• Work closely with Security & Product teams in writing vulnerability detection rules, APIs etc.

Required Qualifications & Skills: 

• Strong 2-4 years relevant development experience in GoLang
• Experience in building a technical product from idea to production.
• Design and build highly scalable and maintainable systems in Golang
• Expertise in Goroutines and Channels to write efficient code utilizing multi-core CPU optimally
• Must have hands-on experience with managing AWS/Google Cloud infrastructure
• Hands on experience in creating low latency high throughput REST APIs
• Write test suites and maintain code coverage above 80%
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka
• Good to have experience in Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka
• Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating Systems.
• Understanding of cloud/web security concepts would be an added advantage

What We Offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company
• Fully remote & agile working environment
• A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment where you get to build things from scratch, improve and influence product design decisions
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business
• Opportunity to engage and collaborate with developers globally
• Experience with security side of things
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (last one was Chikmangaluru)
• Open and supportive culture 

Who You Are:

• You’ve built scalable, production-ready APIs in fast-paced environments, and are comfortable with the challenges that come with a growing startup.
• You understand event-driven architectures and have hands-on experience building real-time applications.
• You are fully capable of taking ownership of backend systems, from designing the database schema to writing efficient, maintainable code.
• You think beyond the code: optimizing performance, scalability, and security are as important as building new features.
• You’re comfortable troubleshooting complex issues, whether that’s API bottlenecks, database performance, or production issues.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage a NestJS backend with a modular, scalable architecture that can easily handle real-time events and communication.
• Develop and maintain WebSocket services for real-time event-driven updates and ensure seamless communication across the system.
• Integrate RabbitMQ for reliable internal messaging, handling queues and ensuring event-driven workflows are efficient and fault-tolerant.
• Implement database management strategies using MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch, ensuring efficient data handling, indexing, and optimization.
• Integrate with external APIs (JSON-RPC, XML-RPC, REST) to enhance system capabilities.
• Ensure high performance of the system by optimizing database queries, implementing caching strategies using Redis, and ensuring optimal indexing and data flow.
• Implement role-based authentication and authorization mechanisms using JWT, OAuth, and RBAC patterns within NestJS.
• Follow security best practices to ensure sensitive data is protected, credentials are stored securely, and the system is resilient to common vulnerabilities.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration between different services and technologies.

Must-Have Skills:

• Strong proficiency in Node.js and NestJS with TypeScript.
• Solid experience with MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch for data storage and real-time data handling.
• In-depth knowledge of WebSockets and Socket.IO in NestJS Gateways, enabling real-time communication and updates.
• Experience with RabbitMQ for message queuing and asynchronous task handling.
• Strong understanding of authentication & authorization systems using JWT, OAuth, and RBAC (Role-Based Access Control).
• Expertise in optimizing APIs, including techniques for caching, improving database performance, and reducing latency.
• Familiar with API security best practices, including secure storage of credentials, encryption, and safeguarding sensitive data.

Key Skills:

• TypeScript, NestJS, WebSockets, Socket.io
• Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ
• API Optimization, JWT, OAuth, RBAC
• Real-time communication, Event-driven architecture

Nest is a gamified investment platform for the next-generation and young millennials of the world, to invest, play and earn returns more than a regular savings bank account. The world of gaming is merging with finance to offer a more immersive user experience and help users learn how to manage their money. We’re creating a new breed of asset managers and fin-fluencers with Nest.

We are seeking a dedicated Golang developer to join our growing company.

You will collaborate with other technical staff to deliver and maintain a fully-functional mobile application. We hope you can put your passion for software engineering to work for creating highly immersive user applications.

Your duties will include maintaining code repositories via GitHub and internal server storage modules.

Responsibilities

Below are some of the responsibilities a Golang developer is expected to undertake in their position:

• Implement AWS containers to support Go implementation and successful repository maintenance
• Utilize Kubernetes to ensure successful application development, deployment, and scaling
• Implement Docker for smaller-scale applications that require simpler deployments
• Employ Linux Terminal command structures to allow easy back-end operations for less-expert technical staff
• Structure our user interface with React and ensure REST API access is available for enterprise-grade finance customers on-demand
• Collaborate with other technical staff to ensure consistent and smooth DevOps workflows
• Choose and implement other JavaScript libraries that will optimize performance without sacrificing security and base functionality
• Manage multiple projects within reasonable design specifications and budget restrictions
• QA design for errors
• Implement feedback and changes whenever possible
• Create visualizations that convey accurate messaging for the project.

Job Qualifications and Skill Sets

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, or a related field, such as programming. Other critical skills required are:

• Provable proficiency in Go programming
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Minimum of two years’ experience working in programming or information technology
• Attention to detail and Knowledge in Java is recommended
• Portfolio of work with examples that showcase technical skill
• Strong analytical skills
• Time management and organizational skills
• Knowledge of Go templating, common frameworks, and tools
• Experience working with a team

What you’ll receive

• A compensation competitive to premier firms
• Incredible learning and exposure to every aspect of a funded financial startup as an early member, working directly with the founders.
• Recognition and experience of working on a platform with an exponential user growth curve.
• A fun and receptive work culture which promises to never get mundane!
• If you love party, it is on us!

Backend Engineer (GO Developer)

Remote Working | Engineering Team | Full-time
Candidates from Product development background only will be taken ahead.

The Impact you will create in the Job:

Build campaign generation services which can send app notifications at a speed of 10 million a minute.

Dashboards to show Real time key performance indicators to clients.

Develop complex user segmentation engines which creates segments on Terabytes of data within few seconds.

Leverage the power of Kubernetes to maintain clusters running inside VPC's across the world.

Building highly available & horizontally scalable platform services for ever growing data.

Use cloud-based services like AWS Lambda for blazing fast throughput & auto scalability.

You will build backend services and APIs to create scalable engineering systems.

As an individual contributor, you will tackle some of our broadest technical challenges that requires deep technical knowledge, hands-on software development and seamless collaboration with all functions.

You will envision and develop features that are highly reliable and fault tolerant to deliver a superior customer experience.

Collaborating various highly-functional teams in the company to meet deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle.

Identify and improvise areas of improvement through data insights and research.

What we look for?

3-6 years experience in developing high scale internet applications/API based services.

Worked with GoLang as a primary language

Experience with High scale real time architectures

Experience with queueing systems like RabbitMQ, Kafka etc

Experience with Elasticsearch would be a plus

Having hands on experience with Kubernetes would be a plus.

Understanding of SMTP protocol would be a plus

Experience with MTA will be an added advantage.

Very strong analytic and problem-solving skills.

Enjoys working at solving challenges that come with developing real time high scale applications.