Job description

Sincere is looking for a Senior Go Developer to join our growing team. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience with Go/Golang applications. In this role, you will work exclusively on our most recent acquisition, Timehop. Timehop is an award-winning platform that allows consumers to relive their past memories – photos, videos, and social posts – from this exact day in history. Millions of people start their day reminiscing with Timehop, and swipe through their personal archive of memories from one year ago today to 20 years ago today and beyond.

Technologies

We serve terabytes of data daily with latency in the low milliseconds to millions of unique users every day. To achieve that, we’ve built a platform with Go running atop AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, Aurora RDS – MySQL, DynamoDB, Kinesis, Lambda, CloudFront, S3) among other technologies.

You will:

Help solve a wide range of technical challenges, with a focus on our backend applications that power the Timehop mobile apps
Implement highly available systems using Amazon Web Services
Design services and the APIs that connect them
Collaborate with our iOS and Android teams for client-side support of new features
Participate in code reviews to ensure high-quality code
Develop monitoring and metrics dashboards to surface valuable data and increase visibility for our Product and Business teams
Experience firsthand how engineering fits together with the other pieces of an organization to create a successful business

You are:

Passionate and opinionated about creating great products
An expert in Go/Golang applications
Highly skilled at debugging and root-cause analysis
Well-versed in concurrency and parallelism
Deeply knowledgeable in MySQL, PostgreSQL, or similar RDBMS

Benefits

Do you want to work at a growing company that invests in its team more than the average employer? Sincere is a family of brands with heart. The Company is home to Punchbowl®, Lovebird®, Timehop®, and Memento®, and builds technology that brings you closer and helps show you care to the people who matter the most. With Sincere Foundation, we support organizations that address basic needs, and envision a future where everyone has the opportunity to celebrate, recognize milestones, and honor memories. We provide a fun, casual, and innovative environment where hard work is recognized and rewarded.

What We Offer:

100% Health, Dental & Vision coverage
401K Plan with Profit Share
Annual bonus potential
Health & Wellness stipends
Paid time off plus 12 paid holidays & Summer Fridays
Paid sick time
Paid parental leave
Childcare benefits (dependent care FSA)
Flexibility to work from wherever you will be most effective
In-person, all-expenses-paid Team Summits (2X a year)

PLEASE NOTE: Our team is primarily based in Greater Boston. We will consider applicants who reside anywhere within a 2 hour drive of the city. While this role is remote, we have occasional in-person meetings at the office (every 4-6 weeks typically).