Mid-level to Senior Golang developer

Cargoplot is a fast-growing logistics startup building a platform that connects international traders with the best freight forwarders. We help users collaborate seamlessly with customers and suppliers worldwide.

As a small, diverse team, we are dedicated to building the best product on the market and delivering outstanding customer experience. We value ownership, flexibility, growth, and teamwork. You enjoy working in an agile environment, sharing knowledge, learning from others, and stepping up when leadership is needed. You write clean, well-structured code, embrace feedback, and are eager to improve your skills. You are comfortable with innovation, AI-driven development, and the occasional chaos that comes with startup life.

You’ll join a team of five engineers from different backgrounds. Your main focus will be developing our back-end services, built around asynchronous event-driven interactions, and connected to the front end through REST APIs. We actively use AI tools in our development workflow, and you’ll be encouraged to use and explore new AI assistants for coding, analysis, and automation.

A typical service:

• consists of well-factored Go code
• is tested automatically with unit, component and integration tests
• is stateless and fault-tolerant
• publishes and consumes events from Apache Kafka to exchange and persist state
• is deployed in parallel onto cloud-hosted Kubernetes environments
• uses CI/CD for fast iteration times and short release cycles. Evolution is quick and adheres to principles of LEAN methodology.

You have most of the following qualifications:

• 4+ years of relevant working experience
• An open mind that is constantly yearning to unravel complex but enticing problems.
• You are user-centric and always approach a problem with the perspective of what is best for the customer.
• Professional experience with Go
• Experience with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL) and/or message queues (Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ)
• Experience with Git or other VCS
• Comfortable using AI tools (e.g. coding assistants, LLMs) as part of your daily workflow

You would like (to learn) to work with:

• Apache Kafka as an event-based streaming platform
• Docker & Kubernetes in a cloud environment
• Automated testing and CI/CD using GitLab

With us you will find:

• A competitive salary (€60,000-€90,000 gross per year, depending on experience)
• A young, innovative start-up culture with a lot of fun team activities and after work drinks
• A modern office in Amsterdam Houthavens with an inspiring view of the IJ
• Daily lunch, unlimited coffee and tea
• Friday Wins sessions and other informal events with food and drinks
• Steep learning curve by taking on responsibility from day one
• Freedom to realize your own projects and implement your ideas
• No hierarchical thinking: be your own leader!

Please note:

Be aware that this is an on-site job. We are specifically looking for someone who is willing and able to join us at our Amsterdam office. Applications for a fully remote position will not be considered.

We can sponsor visas, but we can only consider your application if you are already living in the Netherlands or have concrete plans to relocate soon.