Principal Software Engineer, Backend (Go)
skoolSan Antonio (TX)
About the role
Skool’s engineering team is seeking highly experienced Backend Software Engineers with a passion for developing performant and scalable backend services written in Go. You will collaborate with Product Management, Designers, Engineers, and other stakeholders to determine the best way to design and implement new systems. You will also help to maintain and extend existing services. Skool engineers love to solve hard software problems. Teams are focused on a variety of challenges like helping users find the best communities, creating new engagement loops within the platform and managing a robust payment system used by tens of millions. We have multiple roles available across our Go based software stack, and are looking for engineers who can aid in our goal of helping 1 billion people find community. This is a 100% remote position. Skool has an office in Los Angeles, CA but works as a distributed team.
What you'll do:
- Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity
- Take full ownership designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining Skool backend features, end-to-end
- Build and maintain internal tools and infrastructure
- Communicate and author architectural designs and requirements
- Maintain and advocate for high standards through code review and collaboration between yourself and other engineers
- What we're looking for[Required] You have significant professional experience with GoYou have 8+ years of experience building high-performance, reliable systems in a complex and distributed environment
- You have worked on services using the following: PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch
- You have significant professional experience building and maintaining Web Services
- You have experience in database performance optimization, backend performance optimization, and debugging live production services
- You have a passion for writing maintainable and elegant code
- Why join Skool?
- Over 30M users, 150K communities, $1B in creator revenue + already profitable (!)Fast growing, mission-driven company with a focus on education & community
- We’re a small, collaborative team that likes to have fun while prioritizing balance
- Remote first, industry leading compensation, fully covered medical, dental & vision insurance (including dependents), 401(k) matching, and more!
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