Senior Backend Engineer (Golang)
Job Summary
Job Description
BeReal seeks a Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) to contribute to their rapidly growing social network. Responsibilities include tackling technical challenges related to massive user spikes, developing robust architecture for scalability, collaborating with product and engineering teams, analyzing trade-offs in backend components, and participating in code and design reviews. The ideal candidate will have experience with GCP, Kubernetes, and Golang. This is a hybrid role based in Paris.
Must have:
- Experience with Golang
- GCP, Kubernetes expertise
- Scalable architecture design
- High-performance backend development
- Collaboration with product and engineering teams
Good to have:
- Node.js (NestJS, Nx, Typescript)
- Experience with Spanner, PostgreSQL, Redis
10 skills required
Job Details
Team
At BeReal, we are dedicated to authenticity in social media. By encouraging users to share unfiltered moments, we foster genuine connections and celebrate real life. We are now an international team of 60+ and have 30M+ monthly active users. Backed by Voodoo, our team is fully focused on scaling BeReal into an iconic social network used by hundreds of millions.
Role
We’ve built BeReal with a tiny technology team of world-class engineers and we intend to keep this mindset as we scale it to hundreds of millions of users. To achieve this, we ship new features faster than any other scaled social network while upgrading our infrastructure. We work in small teams of generalists and give each engineer high autonomy to make product related decisions.
- Tackle exciting technical challenges, given the nature of our product, which experiences spikes of millions of users connecting within a 2-minute window.
- Contribute to the development of a robust architecture capable of supporting massive scale as we attract new users and expand to new countries.
- Collaborate with the product and engineering teams to create new features for the app.
- Analyze trade-offs and address technical challenges related to key components of our backend.
- Participate in code and design reviews.
Our Stack
- Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, GitHub actions, and ArgoCD.
- Backend: Go, Node.js (NestJS, Nx, Typescript)
- Frontend: Swift (iOS), Kotlin (Android).
- Database: Spanner, PostgreSQL, Redis.
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