GoLang Backend Engineer

Yoti

  • London
  • £55,000-60,000 per year
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 2 days ago
Who we areBorn in 2014, Yoti is a digital identity and biometric technology company that makes it safer for people to prove who they are. The Yoti app was designed with privacy at its core, giving people a secure way to prove their identity and share third-party credentials with organisations and other people.Today, we have over ten million app downloads around the world. We’ve expanded our offering to a suite of business solutions that span identity verification, age verification and estimation, e-signing, AI anti-spoofing technologies and we continue to think of innovative new offerings.From day one, we’ve been working to fix an outdated identity system. This is not a journey we make on our own but with policy advisors, think tanks, researchers, academics, humanitarian bodies, our users and everyday people. We are committed to solving identity problems through grassroots research and social purpose initiatives.More about this Team and ProjectThe team currently have multiple projects that they work on. The main project is an internal tool used to assist humans to verify documents; an IAM project is for access control to a system and a couple of smaller projects.The team is cross functional, with multiple Frontend and Backend developers, along with QAs and a Product Owner. You will work closely with all these people while working in an agile sprint based environment across Europe and Asia. The projects are all written in Go using microservices, with a React based frontend. You will focus on one project to start with and slowly expand until you are comfortable with all.Your experience
  • Experience in Go required, with professional experience in Go/C/Node/Java using good OOP principles
  • Comfortable with setting up development and production environments
  • Experience with Docker, Nginx, Postgres and log management technology
  • PostreSQL databases
  • Solid grasp of REST and RESTful API design.
  • A belief in DevOps & micro-services architecture.
  • Testing good practices: unit and integration testing
  • Working understanding of transactional and multi-threaded systems.
  • Message queue systems.
  • Exposure to a team-based working environment
  • Source control systems (GIT) and associated working practises
  • Experience working in an agile environment
  • Strong team spirit.
  • Experience working in an agile environment
Interview ProcessStage 1 - Call with the Talent Acquisition team (30 minutes)Stage 2 - Call with the Team Lead (30 minutes)Stage 3 - Technical AssessmentStage 4 - Final Interview (In-person if London based)What’s in it for you?
  • Flexible working
  • Performance based discretionary annual bonus
  • Share Options
  • Internal Share Market
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Pension
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Electric Car Scheme
  • 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
  • 5 fully paid Selfie Days - for your own personal development, volunteering, charity events, etc
  • Team and company activities, Social clubs.
  • Continuous learning opportunities (Annual Training budgets, conferences etc)
This is a great opportunity to join a company that is leading the way for innovative and responsible identity verification. We’re looking for people who can adapt to a fast-paced environment, as well as champion our brand and what we stand for. We value a positive attitude and people who have a collaborative, creative and transparent approach to solving problems.We believe in equal opportunitiesIt takes a diverse community of passionate, talented and committed people to build a simpler, more secure way of proving identity. We’re an equal opportunity employer, so we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, with different outlooks and experiences.We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and we’re committed to making our recruitment process as inclusive and accessible as possible.If you have a disability or long-term condition and need any adjustments or support during the application or interview process, please let us know — we’ll do everything we can to support you and to enable you to bring your best self to our hiring process.Pre-employment checksIf your application is successful please be aware that as part of our pre-employment checks:
  • We will check your details against fraud prevention databases
  • We will check identity; address match; PEPs and sanctions; bank validation, verification, fraud checks, negative data (CCJ, bankruptcy)
  • If our investigations identify fraud or other criminal offences both when applying for a job and during your employment, we will record the details on the relevant fraud prevention databases. This information may be accessed from the UK and other countries and used by law enforcement agencies and other organisations to prevent fraud.
  • Please contact
to get information on which fraud prevention databases we use.Talent PoolIf we consider that you might be suitable for other roles in the future, we will keep your details so we can contact you about these other roles. If you do not want us to keep your details for this purpose, please e-mail or let us know at any stage of the recruitment process. For more information please read our .

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