Junior Backend (Golang) Engineer
Location
Bulgaria
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Junior
Job Description
Junior Backend (Golang) Engineer
Symphony Solutions
Role Description Vivino is the world's largest online wine marketplace and most downloaded wine app, trusted by over 70 million users to discover and purchase the right wine. The project focuses on enhancing Vivino's backend services and APIs within a cross-functional product development team. The tech stack includes Go and SQL, and the work culture emphasizes creativity, collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement. Responsibilities - Designing and implementing backend services and APIs, using Go, to power core product functionalities. - Contributing to cross-functional product development teams, collaborating closely with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions. - Maintaining platform health, ensuring stability, scalability, and reliability of backend services. - Communicating proactively and transparently, keeping teammates informed throughout every stage of your work and seeking alignment when needed. - Participating in goal setting and team planning, helping define group objectives and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives. Qualifications - At least 1 year of experience in designing and implementing APIs (preferably in Go or similar technologies). - Ability and willingness to learn Go. - At least 1 year of experience in composing common SQL queries. - Creative mindset with the ability to think imaginatively and propose new ideas. - Adaptability and flexibility to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. - Strong collaboration skills, with a sociable nature and enjoyment of cross-team cooperation. - Conscientiousness, with attention to detail, accuracy, and high standards in all work. - Resilience in facing challenges and setbacks, with a growth and problem-solving mindset. - Confidence to speak up, challenge norms, ask questions, and drive continuous improvement. - Alignment with both Symphony Solutions' values and Vivino's values: Always Strive for Better / Work Together / Earn and Offer Trust / Be Approachable / Lead with Data. - Comfortable working in a multicultural, international environment. - Open to feedback, willing to learn from mistakes, and supportive of others in continuous improvement efforts. Requirements - Embrace data as a driver of innovation and are eager to see how it can shape smarter, more personalized features. - Use AI tools in your everyday work — from writing implementation notes or exploring data, to troubleshooting code or generating test cases, you see AI as a collaborator, not just a buzzword. - Understand the impact of AI on users, and are motivated by building products that feel intuitive, adaptive, and helpful. - Appreciate the interplay between technology and human experience, recognizing that AI is most powerful when it enhances trust, choice, and enjoyment.
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• Support the evolution and maintenance of software, taking into account system security, performance, and quality. • Apply best practices and stay updated on new technologies. • Willingness to take on new challenges and emerging technologies. • Commitment to delivering high-quality work, personal development, and behavior aligned with the company and team values. • Other related activities.
• Set the technical roadmap for the Reporting team, balancing new reporting capabilities with prioritized tech debt. • Architect and own the systems that power report generation, data ingestion, and query performance, working primarily in Python, Django, and ClickHouse. • Drive technical design discussions and decisions, working with engineers and stakeholders to land on the right architecture and trade-offs. • Evaluate the team's most pressing production and quality issues, diagnose root causes, and drive down their recurrence. • Improve our data pipeline and reporting architecture so the team can build more reports, over more data, faster. • Maintain our admin portal and reports portal, and build new report dashboards, working confidently on the frontend when needed. • Collaborate with product managers, customers, engineers, and other stakeholders to translate reporting needs into technical solutions. • Mentor senior engineers and help raise the technical bar across the team.
• Proactively working with the client to deliver quality software solutions • Communicating effectively with client colleagues on process, delivery, and team health • Progressively enhancing the codebase and paying down tech debt
