JustWatch
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SeniorSoftwareEngineer(Golang)
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“Senior Software Engineer (Golang) at JustWatch. Skills: Backend engineering, API development, Data serving. Extend content stack. Optimise content stack”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3+ years Go language, 3+ years backend engineering, Relational databases experience, Elasticsearch experience, gRPC experience, Fluent in English
Nice to Have
Postgres experience preferred
What You'll Do.
Optimise content stack
Build embeddable widgets
Scale embeddable widgets
Work with internal teams
Work on bigger projects
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Internal teams; Cross-team projects
Full Job Description
## Description Who we are JustWatch is the world’s leading movie and TV show streaming guide with over 25 million monthly users. We make it easy to see what’s new and popular on your favourite services or search for your favourite flick and see where it’s available. We currently list hundreds of legal streaming services in 139 countries. The title streaming data is the foundation of JustWatch. Everything from the website, our TV and mobile apps to public APIs and data exports is dependent on the quality and freshness of our data. The Content team is a group of dedicated and passionate people working together to build the world’s biggest collection of streaming information to keep millions of users and data partners happy. Who we are looking for We are looking for an experienced backend engineer to join our Content team. The Content team is working on acquiring data (Streaming availability, metadata, etc.) and serving that to internal and external consumers. Curiosity, drive and passion are shared characteristics of all people at JustWatch, and we are looking for these values in every person we are hiring. We are looking for people who are willing to constantly learn through challenging themselves and others. All of us also love to get things done and strongly believe in “done is better than perfect”. Dedication to software craftsmanship and a drive for elegant and simple solutions come in a close second. ## What you will be doing Extend and optimise our content stack, which includes our scraper, content api, database and Elasticsearch. Take end-to-end responsibility over building and scaling the APIs, data exports and embeddable widgets used by our B2B partners. Work closely with other internal teams on bigger projects across teams. ## What we need from you At least 3 years of deep familiarity with the Go language 3+ years of work experience in a backend engineering role Experience with relational databases, preferably Postgres Experience with Elasticsearch, experie
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