Back End Developer

About Lightmeter: Our mission is to bring the world’s top startup innovations to market via the global reach of email. We connect startups to customers who need them, helping scale their revenue. Our customers love us for the results we help them achieve and the excitement that generates.

We are geeks turned founders with distinctive backgrounds, top-notch education, and an entrepreneurial spirit. We’ve led other early-stage and scale-up startups, including an Open Source email marketing app (an alternative to Mailchimp) and two ride-hailing software apps (alternatives to Uber) with hundreds of thousands of users.

Lightmeter is the all-in-one B2B Delivery Network for sales emails, integrated with CRMs and prospecting apps like Apollo and Instantly. We’re backed by Y-Combinator and venture capital investors.

About this position: We’re a technical company with a technical product that serves non-technical customers - quality engineering is at the core of everything we do.

You will make executive decisions daily, often with incomplete information. You’ll need to factor in business impact in your decision-making, guided by quantitative outcomes. As you demonstrate the need for growth, you will recruit and lead new team members.

You're a fit if:

You’re an impact-driven builder and a problem-solving machine. You have strong opinions on software organization and management. You are a blend of creative experimentation and instinctive structure. You find satisfaction in both disposable PoCs and clean, elegant architecture. You care more about design patterns than the specific language you’re coding in. You’re excited to be an early employee at a bold sales tech startup. You thrive in a fast-paced, variable pressure work environment. You have an insatiable curiosity and are excited by new paradigms. You’re kind, collaborative, and supportive, and expect the same from your team.

Must-haves:3+ years of professional technical experience Excellent English (written and verbal)

Ideal experience:Developing high-performance, distributed systems Working with ambiguous, semi-structured data Experience in a high-growth startup Background in a SaaS business

Desired personal skills:Clear communication of complex concepts Familiarity with a mix of languages and libraries Creative problem-solving abilities Rapid design and testing of new technical concepts Interest in writing concise and effective documentation Collaborative brainstorming Critical thinking under pressure A sense of humor 😁

Key tech stack components: Golang PostgreSQL Kafka GitLab CI/CD A little Python Docker Kubernetes Postfix

About the interview processThe process is split over four primary conversations, usually taking place over one to two weeks.

Meeting 1: 30 minute initial call to touch base and check technical and interpersonal basics. We'll ask about your experience with a variety of technologies, technical concepts, management methodologies, and communication preferences.Meeting 2: 75 minute live working session where you'll be given a challenge and access to a suitable environment, and asked to get as close to solving it as possible. The bad: working live and unprepared is stressful. The good: the time cost to you is limited to 1 hour, and we get to experience how we each handle working under time constraints while communicating about a concrete technical challenge (you get a sense of our competence too).Meeting 3: Final questions about anything that came up previously, plus an introduction to projects you'll be working on during your first 3 months at Lightmeter, followed by a "reality check" presentation from the company to align expectations about day-to-day experience at the company.Meeting 4: In-depth career history interview. This is a comprehensive conversation where we dive deep into your past roles, accomplishments, challenges, and decisions. We’ll explore your entire career journey to understand your patterns of success and areas for growth. This interview gives us a detailed understanding of how your experiences align with the demands of the role, and ensures that we’re making the best match for both you and Lightmeter.Meeting 5: Offer details discussion, and request for references. By this point everything else is settled!

Key Skills

• Golang