Backend Go/Kotlin/Java Developer

Who Are We?

How We Work?

Our hybrid work model (2-3 days in the office) gives us the face-to-face time to have creative conversations, meaningful meetings, make quick decisions and build relationships. At the same time, it offers flexibility you need to focus and do your best work.

Mission and Goals

We're the team responsible for Gen's VPN backends, which consist of over 6,000 servers located at multiple data centers and cloud providers around the world, as well as over 100 backend applications providing services to more than 400 million client applications/devices. We design backend applications that endure heavy traffic, create lightweight and easy-touse APIs, develop apps to assist our Infra team, and facilitate communication with clients and SDKs team. We tackle complex problems, often with unconventional ideas.

We strive to provide the best possible Quality of Service (QoS) for our clients while maintaining high security standards. We value openness, the ability to express your own opinions, and a desire for self-improvement and team enhancement.

Objectives

• Work with Product Managers, Engineering leaders & architects on new requirements.

• Lead complex technical design of the systems architecture & components built using Go, Kotlin/Java.

• Work with other team members (design, architecture, code review, etc.)

• Contribute to the whole application lifecycle (development, testing, deployment, monitoring, maintenance, etc.)

• Continuously maintain, improve existing server components.

• Work with tools like Jira, GitHub, TeamCity, Confluence

• Work in team, as a team

Competencies
 

• Strong experience with Java / Kotlin / GO Experience with backend development

• Experience working SQL & No-SQL databases.

• AWS/GCP/Kubernetes experience is a plus

• Ability to write test-cases, testable code, Unit tests, Integration & Automation suites.

• Ability to communicate in English with the team and stakeholders (B2+)

• Experience with design of REST API services

What we welcome:

• Ruby experience (maintenance of existing components)

• Significant experience in building secure applications

• Docker

• Grafana

• NoSQL (Cassandra) databases

• Elasticsearch

• Kotlin DSL build jobs and integration with TeamCity

• Knowledge of VPN protocol
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Gen is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible environment for all employees. All employment decisions are based on merit, experience, and business needs, without regard to race, color, national origin, age, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical conditions), genetic information, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, military or veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local law. Gen strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based on such protected characteristics and seeks to recruit the most talented candidates from diverse cultures and backgrounds. 

We also consider employment-qualified individuals with arrest and conviction records. In addition, we will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Learn more about pay transparency. 

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