Backend Engineer at Unusual Ventures
We’re a close-knit team of 30 people with an ambitious goal to make a cloud-based Postgres toolkit accessible for every developer in building their apps.
We’re looking for someone who has
- 5+ years’ experience developing Golang
- Experience focusing on backend development
- Experience with infrastructure components such as Kubernetes, Dockers, Github CI/CD, and cloud technologies
- Python experience is beneficial
Description
Neon is an open-source company on a mission to create a cloud-native Postgres database as a service for every developer.
We’re a close-knit team of 30 people with an ambitious goal to make a cloud-based Postgres toolkit accessible for every developer in building their apps.
We are building a game-changing open source PostreSQL, and to make this happen we are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer who will contribute to the core technological architecture of Neon's storage.
You’ll have the chance to contribute to an auto-scaling, on-demand database as a service for modern applications, which is an open-source alternative to Amazon Aurora.
About Neon
Neon is the first multi-cloud, open source, fully managed, and serverless Postgres. We aim to provide developers with the best Postgres experience in the cloud.
Neon was created by a team of Postgres hackers, and led by CEO Nikita Shamgunov (co-founder of SingleStore). Neon is built on open-source principles and is focused on giving back to the Postgres and developer communities.
You will:
- Join an experienced Golang team and contribute to the development of new features for the revolutionary product
- Contribute to the overall PostgreSQL community
- Play a key role in ensuring the code is written cleanly and well documented
- Formulate new ideas and methods to contribute to Neon via conversations with internal stakeholders and other software engineers
Our Team
- We are distributed team of 30 people working from North America, Europe, and the Middle East
- We are team built on open sources cultural principles (transparency, contribution, accountability)
- Team with decades of experience building databases and deep knowledge of Postgres internals. We are deeply technical
- We have experienced Postgres committers and hackers on the team (check Heikki, Anastasia, Arseny, Matthias)
- We believe in the efficacy of collaborative open source
- We aim for a diversity of thoughts and backgrounds
- We are keen to be a fast-moving flat org and avoid hierarchical structures
- We are startup with all that it implies:)
Our Investors
- Top-tier investors backed up Neon's vision:
- We raised $54.3m from GGV Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Founders Fund
- Our angels investors are prominent technologists, and ecosystem players. More than 20 awesome angels supported Neon, including Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, Mike Ovitz, Ajeet Singh, Guillermo Rauch, Søren Brammer Schmidt, and Wes McKinney
- Our Board includes Quentin Clark, Glenn Solomon, Joe Morrissey, and Leigh Marie Braswell
Our Offer
- You have an opportunity to be an early employee in the fast-scaling ambitious team
- You can work 100% remote: we'll handle all formalities to arrange work from your home
- We pay top of the market in most parts of the world
- We grant equity (stock options) for all full-time hires
- We offer a competitive benefits package in line with all tech companies (top-notch equipment, unlimited vacations, paid parental leaves, med insurance, and much more)
- We are distributed, yet make our bonds during regular offsites (the last one was in Mexico)
Hiring Process
- We like to keep things and get awesome people fast. Our goal is to get a hiring process done within a week from the moment we reviewed your application.
- The entire hiring process is fully remote.
- Once you have submitted your CV, our team will review it and we can contact you to schedule an initial call with a Talent Acquisition Partner.
- If we move on to the next steps, you will have 3 technical interviews with our Hiring Team. All interviews are 1:1 with our Software Engineers and usually last 45-60 minutes.
- Once all the interviews are over, our team will swiftly analyze the results of all the steps and present the final decision.
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