Senior Backend Engineer
About this role
We’re looking for an experienced backend engineer, working on the core technology that powers our platform.About usSince its launch in 2018, Gener8 has been at the forefront of the “open data” movement: the belief that people should be able to control and be rewarded from their own data. Gener8’s consumer products include IOS and Android apps, a web browser and a browser extension. Our products enable people to transparently share their data with Gener8, whilst preserving their privacy, and to earn rewards in return for doing this.On the B2B side, the data products that Gener8 creates enables businesses to make faster, smarter decisions. Our customers include some of the world’s largest Big Tech companies, leading AI companies and prominent organisations in finance and AdTech.About the roleA few of the things in our backlog that you could be working on:Extending, improving and optimising our data APIs that ingest well over 100 million events a month.Creating new data feeds for our commercial partners that deliver valuable data to drive business decisions.Creating brand new APIs and endpoints to support our mobile apps.Improving, upgrading & refining our entire cloud based infrastructureYou’ll be working closely with our existing product and engineering team, including Staff backend engineer and Head of Engineering.On the backend we use Go, PostgreSQL and Redis to serve RESTful and gRPC APIs running on Kubernetes, all hosted on GCP.
What this role is, and what else it is called
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