Senior Backend Software Engineer (Golang), Platform

We're Creative Fabrica, a fast-scaling tech start-up from Amsterdam.

Our mission

Enable creativity by giving access to everything related to the creative process: inspiration, learning, creating, and sharing. The 'Creative Inspiration Flywheel'

This creates a self-sustaining community that lives within the Creative Fabrica ecosystem.

About the platform

We launched in 2016 as a marketplace for fonts with a subscription service. In the last 8 years, we have been through tremendous growth, and we're just getting started!

We have scaled to 50 million+ monthly page views, 8 million+ registrations, over 22 million listed products, and 22000+ active designers.

Our focus is to create a platform for designers that enables them to offer exceptional high-quality content. We make their products searchable in unique ways. This allows our customers to speed up their workflow, allowing them to focus on what they love most: Creating.

About the team:

The Platform teams are focused on the Creative Fabrica infrastructure and foundational software components. That includes SRE, dev experience and core domain services (foundational entities like identity management, authentication, authorization, sessions management, etc). This is the foundation used by multiple feature teams at CF to build the end-user facing functionality and accelerate value delivery.

Our Tech Stack:

AWS, Terraform, Go, Kubernetes, FluxCD, Helm, Victoria Metrics, gRPC, GraphQL

About the role:

As a Senior Backend Engineer (Go), you'll play a significant role in the development and delivery of products that power up the Creative Fabrica's growing crafting community.

What you will do:

• Write production-grade product and platform code.
• Take responsibility for component technical designs and deliver quality code.
• Be an advocate for modern development practices
• Be an integral part of the Platform team, come up with ideas, run experiments, analyze usage data and build products customers love
• Own several key services such as Payments, Identity Management (authorization/authentication/user-management/etc), core libraries and our Admin backend
• Enable other engineers in the company by improving the developer experience and elevate the productivity
  
  

What you will need to have:

• Experience developing, deploying and supporting production code for high-volume, low latency Enterprise applications, with preference to SaaS or global ecommerce.
• Proficient in Go, experienced in building highly performant distributed systems using microservices and message-driven architecture.
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes and cloud data / compute infrastructure in general.
• Experience designing, building and operating microservices and associated APIs.
• Practical experience of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Strong understanding and commitment to software development best practices, including code quality standards, modularity/DDD, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Strong customer empathy and genuine desire to build a great product
  
  

It would be great if you can also bring:

• Experience with one or more of the domain mentioned above
• Experience in creating internal development tools
  
  

During the interview process, you will get the opportunity to come into our offices and meet the team, if you are based locally.

Compensation

We recognize and reward hard work, skill, and ambition. Your compensation will be made up of base salary plus an equity-based incentive plan.

We would also like to offer you:

• Lunch: On days you work in the office a warm fresh lunch will be provided for you.
• 24 days of paid vacation per year + public holidays.
• Up to 40 days Work From Anywhere Benefit based on your choice of work arrangement
• Travel Allowance, if you live more than 10 KM from the office.
• Company pension plan.
• L&D for Tech Division
• Company events and overseas trips!
• New Joiner Swag Pack!
  
  

Is this you?

Get in touch! We'd love to speak to you.

You can apply by clicking the "Apply now" button.

Creative Fabrica is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.