Senior Backend Engineer - Golang London, England
Job description
About us
Hello, we are GetGround. We are a well-funded Tech scaleup in Europe and Asia with a mission to make the world fairer and more productive. We are doing this by making assets more transparent, trustworthy and accessible - starting with real estate, the world's biggest asset class. Incomes have stagnated, so more access to wealth generating things like real estate = less wealth inequality. We are disruptors building a global network for trading illiquid assets - and we have first mover advantage!
Our Co-Founder and CEO Moubin qualified as a Doctor and went on to have a successful career at McKinsey and top private equity firm, APAX. Moubin started GetGround with his brother and our CTO, Misrab. Misrab is a Stanford Computer Scientist who led and scaled the data science team of a Tech unicorn (Gojek) in Asia.
We are proud of how far we have come since 2018, but humbled and excited at what there is still to achieve. Our values sit at the core of everything we do - pursuit of excellence, feedback obsessed, No BS and healthy egos.
GetGround stats:
- 85 colleagues (ex Google, Talkdesk, Facebook, Monzo, McKinsey...)
- Captured 10%+ of our addressable UK market already
- £1Bn of property on our platform, in a $Trillion market
- 5 locations (UK, Portugal, Germany, HK, Singapore) -> check out our video of GetGrounders from across the globe coming together in London for GetGround live 2022
- Featured in Sifted's 2022 future 'Soonicorns'
Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) | London (hybrid working is expected)
The Engineering team is led by CTO and Co-Founder, Misrab, a Stanford Computer Scientist. You can read about our philosophy to product engineering here. You can also take a listen to one of our Podcast episodes with one of our Backend Engineers here.
A Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) at GetGround works on projects such as financial infrastructure, robust systems for high value transactions and company management. We primarily use Golang (don't worry, if you don't know Go yet we'll help you ramp up on it), deployed on Google Cloud. We care about thoughtful, tested, documented code that delivers excellence to our customers.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of building a product with significant market fit as it scales exponentially. Beyond strong traditional technical skills, we're huge fans of clean design thinking and architecting, as well as communication and an ability to learn and adapt.
The role comes with immense scope for growth and impact in a zero-ego, zero-BS environment. We're building a world class team that works together to solve hard problems that will enable us to achieve our mission to make assets more transparent, trustworthy and accessible.
In this role, you will develop the following skills:
- Technical rigour through collaborative, multi-disciplinary and thorough refinement processes. We want hackers and painters!
- A challenger mindset - to implement new patterns and libraries, and to improve readability and efficiency
What you will do in the role:
- Working with Golang, you'll build large-scale technology that will change the world for the better!
- As part of a cross functional, collaborative team, you will participate in the entire application lifecycle, from architecting to development, testing and review
- Collaborate with Frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use
- Mentor junior Engineers
The experience you will have:
- 3+ years' experience with programming languages (ideally with Golang, though this is not essential)
- Design and architecture practices, including in the context of large-scale web applications
- Experience with unit testing, integration testing, or similar testing frameworks
- Fluent spoken and written English
Our benefits
- Competitive salary + stock options
- Private health + dental benefits
- Flexible/hybrid working (check details with your recruiter)
- 12 mental health days off annually (1 per month) PLUS holidays and public days off
- Mental health support - 24/7 access to mental health support, counselling, therapy & coaching through Spectrum.Life for all employees and their immediate family
- Team and company-wide events
- 360° performance reviews to promote a culture of growth and development
- Support for conferences and professional learning & development
[+ other localised benefits depending on your office location e.g. free breakfast daily)
What we do - in more detail
GetGround is developing the infrastructure for a global digital marketplace for assets enveloped in companies. Trillions of dollars of assets are tied in inefficient illiquid markets - think property, ships, factory machinery & infrastructure to name a few.
Enveloping an asset in a company unlocks liquidity by enabling the right legal basis for asset ownership, governance and exchange. However companies, one of humanity's greatest inventions, are stuck in the past. We are digitising and automating the company - starting by tackling UK private residential investment property, with £1.3 trillion of stock and £30-50 billion in transactions a year.
Diversity & inclusion at GetGround
We encourage applications from all sections of society and we believe in the criticality of an inclusive culture. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis as protected by law.
- 42% of our employees identify as female or non-specified, 58% as male
- 19 nationalities represented across offices in 5 countries
- Our work on Design Accessibility
- Inclusion is at the heart of our culture - we celebrate and reflect on key D&I and cultural events such as: Black History Month, International Women's Day and Pride
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