Senior Go Engineer

About QuikNode, Inc

At QuickNode, we are building infrastructure for the future of the Internet, the Web3.0.

Our mission is to help blockchain ecosystems scale, by providing robust core infrastructure. We have a passion for blockchain technology and building infrastructure for the future of the Internet. Our services power DApps. Our products empower users all over the world - servicing 30b+ requests per month.

Our company is remote first, with team members in 3 timezones. Our team has built and exited companies before, with experience at companies like Comodo SSL, 1Sale.com and USA Today. We understand the power that blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum provide for people who seek freedom and accountability - waking up every day excited to further the QuikNode mission.

What we offer

We offer 5 weeks of PTO, full medical, vision, dental and life insurance and a budget for a new computer setup.

Description & Responsibilities

As our second platform engineer, you will be working on things like profiling our existing codebase to debug customer issues, refactoring go code to enable new features, adding tests and assisting the team in architecting new features. You will be responsible for ensuring the quality of our go codebase, which drives millions of dollars in revenue. We also expect every engineer to spend at least one day on customer support to understand our customer better.

We’re looking for a self-starter, who is communication focused with a deep sense of ownership and a team mentality to collaborate on achieving the best design/architecture for our systems.

You can expect to meet on a daily basis to go over task progress and design solutions. You’ll be working directly with the technical team: Manuel Kreutz, Mauro Delazeri, Chet Bortz, Saurab Joshi and Auston Bunsen.

We need you to have experience with:

• Designing high available systems with disaster recovery in mind
• Software Development in Go
• Working with databases of all types (relational, no-sql, time-series, etc)
• The HTTP specification
• The Ethereum JSON-RPC
• Benchmarking tools to ensure your code does not slow down production traffic
• Monitoring and debugging production issues
• Linux / Bash Scripting
• Containerization (Running Docker, K8s, etc)
• Writing applications that make heavy use of concurrency or parallelism
• Documenting your processes and sharing knowledge

What you’ve likely done

These are examples of things we would like to have seen you achieve in the past - don’t worry about a perfect 1:1 match:

• Architected or worked on an application that makes heavy use of distributed systems
• Refactored apps with tens of thousands of lines of code
• Scaled apps written in Go to hundreds of millions of requests per day
• Worked on a remote team of 5-10 people