Hybrid Senior Go Backend Developer

at applike group

• Job title: Senior Go Backend Developer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Docker, Kafka, MySQL, React, Terraform, TypeScript, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Hamburg, Germany

About the role

• Senior Go Backend Developer at adjoe, redefining mobile ads and building scalable solutions. Join an international team focused on modern ad technologies in Hamburg.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of our backend written +99% in Go and maintain our microservice architecture used to communicate with our frontend (based on TypeScript React). To do this, you’ll use event buses like Kafka and SQS/SNS in order to have reliable asynchronous microservice communication
• Work in a community of developers with whom you’ll share knowledge and contribute to peer code reviews
• Work with modern columnar databases such as Druid – but also with MySQL, where you’ll optimize queries and the way we query data to deliver few-millisecond response times
• Support partners by providing them with raw or aggregated data based on their business needs – we believe in data transparency and well-documented open APIs
• Be responsible for collecting the billions of daily API events and aggregating them in our Kafka and Kinesis streams with the goal of querying them from the data lake in a matter of seconds
• Be part of an international English-speaking team dedicated to scaling our adtech platform beyond our hundreds of millions of monthly active users

Requirements

• You have worked in software development for 5+ years.
• You have gained profound experience with building web applications in Go for at least 3 years.
• You know how to profile a go application and figure out bottlenecks and have used this already in your work to optimize the code of the application
• You have worked on a large go application with a considerable amount of traffic (>100e6 requests per day)
• You are open to relocating to Hamburg, Germany
• Plus: You have experience working with infrastructure as code (Terraform), Docker, and serverless infrastructure
• Plus: You have experience with Columnar database

Benefits

• **Invest in Your Future:** Regular feedback and our development program support your growth, helping you expand your skill set and achieve your career goals.
• **Easy Arrival to adjoe:** From signing to settling in Hamburg, we’ve got you covered. Need a visa? No problem. Ready to build your new life and career at adjoe in Hamburg? We support every ambition—from learning German to a relocation bonus that helps you settle in and make Hamburg feel like home.
• **Live Your Best Life, at Work and Beyond:** We work in a hybrid setup with 3 core office days, plus flexible working hours. Enjoy 30 vacation days, 3 weeks of remote work per year, and free access to an in-house gym with lots of different fitness classes and mental health support through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• **Thrive Where You Work: **Enjoy the Alster Lake view from our central office with top-notch equipment, fun open spaces, and a large variety of snacks and drinks.
• **Join the Community! **Participate in regular team and company events, including hackathons and social gatherings. We work together, and we celebrate together, too.