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Backend Engineer

Typeform turns average forms & surveys into a powerful brand communication tool for your business.

Typeform

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Who we are

Typeform is a refreshingly different form builder. We help over 150,000 businesses collect the data they need with forms, surveys, and quizzes that people enjoy. Designed to look striking and feel effortless to fill out, Typeform drives 500 million responses every year—and integrates with essential tools like Slack, Zapier, and Hubspot.

About the Role

As a Backend Engineer at Typeform, you'll be responsible for contributing code to microservices written in GoLang, utilizing HTTP calls for inter-process communications (IPC), and implementing Kafka or SNS/SQS as middleware. Working closely with our Product Team, you’ll champion engineering excellence, as you create beautiful and secure features and functionalities for our customers, which enhances their user experience.

Things you will do:

  • Contributing code to projects that require backend work (in Golang)
  • Improve existing code bases to be more scalable and reliable
  • Reacting to monitoring alerts and triaging accordingly to resolve issues (even after hours)
  • Proposing solutions to code or architectural problems in a high-traffic environment
  • Doing Root-Cause-Analysis (RCA) exercises and leading/contributing to postmortems for incidents.
  • Helping and training peers
  • Being part of an on-call rota to react to any alerts our monitoring system raises during and outside office hours.

What you already bring to the table:

  • University degree in a related field
  • Experience in a high-traffic distributed architecture
  • Experience writing architectural documentation
  • Experience with our core technologies: GoLang, Cloud providers, and Messaging systems
  • Excellent written and spoken English skills

Extra awesome:

  • Experience working in a remote company or a startup.
  • Previous working experience with Kafka, Terraform, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch

*Typeform drives hundreds of millions of interactions per year, powering conversational, human-led experiences all over the world. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and do not tolerate discrimination and harassment of any kind, regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We believe that by celebrating our differences, we can win together.

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About the job

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May 28, 2024

Posted on

Mar 29, 2024

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid-level

Location requirements

Hiring timezones

EMEA +/- 0 hours

About Typeform

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Typeform turns average forms & surveys into a powerful brand communication tool for your business. Create forms, surveys, quizzes (and so much more) to grow your audience, improve just about anything, and validate (or invalidate) your best ideas.

Founded circa 2012 in Barcelona, Typeform was founded by two designers: David Okuniev and Robert Muñoz. Their mission? Make online forms a little more human. Today, Typeform works on the future of online forms. Will it be voice? Video? Fingerprint sensors? Stay tuned.

Why work at Typeform?

Good question. Here’s a few reasons...

Great culture

Humble. Creative. Friendly. Talented. These are the people we hire and this is how our working culture is shaped.

Over 30 nationalities

Typeform is a melting pot of nationalities. Every day we learn something new about somewhere new.

Make yourself at home

Quiet spaces. Social spaces. Outdoor spaces. Our office is designed for you—we’ll even buy you slippers to walk around in.

Flexible working hours

Some of us are morning people, some of us are night owls. We focus on results, not what time you arrive.

¿Me entiendes?

Moving to a new country can be scary. With our free Spanish & English lessons, you’ll feel at home in no time.

Private health insurance

As well as happy, we want you to be healthy. That’s why you get the best medical care with our health insurance.

Fuel for thought

Enjoy a healthy balanced lunch, and grab fresh fruit, juices, and coffee whenever you want. Oh, and our reception’s a bar—with beer.

Discounted gym access

Like to exercise your muscles as much as your brain? Access 100s of gyms around Barcelona for next to nothing.

Keep on learning

With our resource library and a learning & development structure, you’ll have everything you need to help you grow.

Employee benefits

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Wellness benefits

Discounted gym access.

Company events

We have wonderful events!

Employee assistance program (EAP)

We offer mental health support.

Healthcare benefits

We have private health insurance.

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