About your team:
The API Team is a group of very experienced backend enthusiasts and testers dedicated to building, scaling, and maintaining many of the core areas in Text.
We’re all about creating brand-new products and features, scaling up key functionalities in the LiveChat product, and developing a monitoring system to track how users interact across the Text ecosystem. Every day, we tackle unconventional problems you can’t just google.
Our tech stack:
-Golang
-MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Google Cloud Spanner
-gRPC, Protobuf, Websocket
-Google Cloud Platform, K8s
We’re open to experimenting with new technologies. We analyze each problem and choose the right tools to solve it.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement new features for our Platform Backend Infrastructure.
- Maintain and improve existing services — fix bugs, refactor, and improve things daily.
- Migration services to Google Cloud Platform with scalability in mind.
- Take full ownership of new features, from the initial idea to production deployment.
- Work on large-scale systems that handle massive traffic.
- Your work will shape the entire Text Platform ecosystem.
You may be a good fit for this role if you:
- Have several years of experience in the design and implementation of backend services.
- Are comfortable working with concurrency.
- Have significant experience working on scalable systems.
- Know at least the basics of Golang (our main programming language) — even if it’s just one project, we’re ready to help you grow!
- Understand and work effectively with databases.
- Have at least a few years of experience running projects independently.
- Are not afraid to take full ownership off your work.
