checkly - Senior Backend Engineer (remote, UTC-3 to UTC+3)
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Requirements
• You have deep experience in building applications in a professional product (SaaS) environment, with TypeScript (Go is a plus). Our platform runs services in both TypeScript and Go — you will work across both stacks and can ramp up on Go after joining. • You’re excited about developer tooling, and testing frameworks like Playwright. • You have experience building distributed systems on AWS/GCP or bare metal servers. • You want business impact and the visibility that a startup offers. • You like to work in a growing company with experienced founders. • You assume good intentions and are a great communicator in spoken and written English. • You're autonomous and self-motivated in a remote environment. You genuinely enjoy getting to know your colleagues and helping others. • You are able to contribute across the stack and are quick to pick up on new stuff and enjoy the process of learning new things. • You love making software! • FULLY remote role, within the UTC-3 to UTC+3 time zones.
Responsibilities
• Harden & expand our backend • Our backend runs on Hapi.js, Golang and a mix of AWS and bare metal server monitoring infrastructure, distributed around the globe. We ran over 2.5 billion checks already and are ramping up for a lot more. • To give you a clear idea of what the job could entail, here are some examples of the work we’ve done lately or will start soon: • Own and evolve our uptime monitoring platform, driving new capabilities to customers observe and protect the most critical parts of their infrastructure at scale. • Work with infra to deploy our own Clickhouse instance to capture check run logs and metadata. Design and implement an API on this datastore that allows customers to run reports on their check runs. • Work with a customer to hunt down a bug that lets certain checks fail in their private location infrastructure. • You will improve our status pages product to elevate it toward an industry-leading standard of reliability, transparency, and real-time communication. • You'll work on scaling our current backend platform to meet the demands of our growing business, and participate in our on-call rotation to keep everything running smoothly around the clock.
Benefits
• Transparent salary because your salary shouldn't be dictated by how good a negotiator you are (more info below). • Remote-first https://blog.checklyhq.com/we-scored-10-5-on-gitlabs-12-steps-to-better-remote-test/, flexible work hours https://www.notion.so/Remote-first-working-hours-75c4fb08dc49400cabee6a3a9b827cc5?pvs=21, async-first https://www.notion.so/Async-by-default-Async-1-0-Checkly-b9dd37bec51d436bae6635ffce8c6730?pvs=21 (low meeting, high productivity) and transparent culture https://www.notion.so/b130664febf94ae9b320bd4a78370f2e?pvs=21. • Become part of a fast-growing, international, and remote team where your work matters—your impact won’t get lost in layers of bureaucracy. • Stock options. • 27 days of paid vacation + your local public holidays. • Paid sick leave & up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave. • $1,500 learning, visiting and wellness budget. • Co-working budget or home office setup. • Bi-annual company retreats. • Find out more here https://www.notion.so/Benefits-Perks-ad474bec3a5d4d17bfbb43ebae3fec9c?pvs=21. • Fair, competitive, and transparent pay is very important for us. Therefore we work with a standardized salary calculator https://pay.checklyhq.com/ that includes several factors such as seniority level as well as location. • For this role, the range is • €88k-€107k for someone in a similar cost of market as UK, Germany etc. • €79k-€97k for someone in a similar cost of market as Spain, Poland, Ukraine etc. • If this sounds interesting, please apply! Studies by several different sources have shown that on average men will apply for a job if they meet 60% of the application requirements. Women, non-binary people and POC will seek to match a much higher percentage of requirements before applying. If you're not sure you're the right fit, apply anyway and let us know what you bring to the table. We'd love to hear from you! • We're all about being transparent and setting clear expectations. That's why we've put together our hiring playbook https://www.notion.so/Checkly-Hiring-Playbook-54bc05178d3b4118a15effe885f96d1a?pvs=21 and open-sourced our employee handbook https://www.notion.so/Checkly-s-Employee-Handbook-f262e36a64d641af8588a1c09bc0ff48?pvs=21. There you'll find a sneak peek of who we are, how we work and what you can expect in our hiring process.
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