Back End (Golang) Team Leader

About The Position

Join the team building the new generation of distributed NoSQL database: Scylla Cloud, our Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS).

Scylla Cloud provides managed Scylla clusters with automatic backup, upgrades, repairs, performance optimization, security hardening, 24*7 maintenance, monitoring and support — all for a fraction of the cost of other DBaaS offerings. Scylla Cloud lets you prototype quickly, get into production fast and, once in production, scale smoothly over time.

A drop-in replacement compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB, Scylla Cloud customers are building innovative solutions across a range of industries.

Responsibilities:

• As a team leader you will help introduce and guide work methodologies, technologies, mentor and ramp up new developers, and be the go-to person in the areas you are an expert at.
• Lead the GO developers team and work closely with the Cloud Team leader.
• Writing technical design docs, tracking tasks and deadlines, help and troubleshooting
• The Go developer tech lead will stay hands on and develop 60% of his position.

Requirements

• At least 7 years experience as a developer in the hi-tech industry
• Experience of at least 3 years development using Go
• Experience in Open Source development is an advantage
• Experience working in a remote position
• Team Player with an ability to work independentlyStrong communication skills
• Proven record of leadership of development teams, including coordination of team members and successful delivery of projects
• Experienced working in collaborative virtual teams (Slack chat, Zoom conferencing, Google G Suite applications or equivalent)
• A developer-level understanding of Linux and related applications and utilities.
• Experience with modern developer and devops environments, tools, and practices (Docker, Kubernetes, blue/green deployments, database migrations, etc.)
• Proficient in one or more distributed NoSQL databases (Scylla, Cassandra, DataStax Enterprise, Amazon DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, Google Cloud Bigtable, MongoDB, Couchbase, Aerospike, etc.)
• Experience with modern public cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Experience using public source code repositories (Github, Gitlab)
• English- Fluent

Advantages:

• Hands-on experience with Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solutions.