Backend Developer (Golang)

About Toggl

Join our growing team to build the world's most-loved productivity tools.

Work life at Toggl:

• Fully remote since 2014 - We believe in working from wherever you can do your best work. That looks different for everyone, which is why we have colleagues from all around the world.
• Driven by a purpose - We're guided by a strong mission, a distinct vision, and shared values. Trust, our key value, shapes the company culture and direction.
• Work freedom - It doesn't matter when you work or how long you work, as long as you get things done. We call this Results and Accountability First at Toggl, or RAFT.
• Small but impactful - Each Toggler has a significant impact on what their role entails, embracing accountability and ownership in their day-to-day.
• Challenging (the good kind) - Our globally distributed and diverse team members are as talented as they are opinionated. You'll work together with the best people — each with their unique skillset and perspective — to tackle real problems.
• And... meetups! As a remote team, we know that virtual calls are not enough and face time is essential. We aim to meet up at least twice a year. And yes, all expenses are covered!

The Position

We are looking for a Backend Developer to join our engineering team as we have too many ideas and not enough developers! The salary for this position is €66,000 annually, plus great benefits (see below). We are committed to increasing salaries every year based on company and individual performance.

You can work from anywhere in Europe.

The Team

Toggl Hire is on a mission to revolutionize the way hiring happens. We are big believers that modern day recruiting should be effortless and enjoyable. That means no more resumes or cover letters, no more endless hours screening through applications, no more interpreting past roles into current experience, no more bias and gut feeling, but informed decisions based on data.

We are a fully remote team, with headquarters in Tallinn, Estonia. We are highly skilled, highly motivated, and most importantly, a fun, friendly bunch. We value transparency, communication and results over effort and excuses. We have regular in-person meetups all over the world!

The engineering team has a Product Manager, a Designer, a Lead Engineer, 3 frontend and 3 backend developers. We also help the other 2 developers focusing on the growth experiments and their Product Manager.

We have been recently named as one of the best remote companies to work at.

The role

As a Backend Developer your main responsibilities will be:

• Working independently with minimal supervision and handholding
• Building and maintaining product features, ensuring performance, security and scalability
• Finding best possible technical solution for new features implementation
• Contributing to technical design and architecture with growth and scalability in mind
• Doing code reviews or researching and implementing new tools when needed.

The main technologies you will be working with are: Golang, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Heroku, AWS, CircleCI.

Requirements

• You have demonstrated strong experience working with large SaaS data infrastructure.
• You take pride in developing blazing fast, reliable, scalable and secure applications.
• You are a great team-player and communicator when working with anyone from engineers to specialists like product managers and when working with other teams, and with your manager and other stakeholders. You are responsive to feedback and always seek to learn and improve.
• You can come up with creative approaches to problem solving and can provide feedback to others on their work, be it your fellow developers, the designer or the product manager
• You always approach new challenges with a critical thinking mindset and make sure to look at the big picture.
• You want to take ownership and work independently while being part of a tight-knit team.
• You have efficient time management skills as well as the eagerness to learn new skills and tools are something you value.
• You have a strong engineering background and enjoy the startup life. You have seen many projects through from conception to delivery.

Our Hiring Process

1. Skills test - a short online quiz to evaluate your skills and knowledge fit for the position.
2. Assignment - a homework assignment and a quick chat to understand your experiences and expectations.
3. Test week - 3-5 days of paid work with our team to experience working together.
4. Leadership interview - an opportunity to touch base with a member of our leadership team to ask each other final questions.

Benefits

• Freedom to choose when and how much you work—we only measure results
• 24 days of paid time off a year, plus your local holidays
• In-person meetups for team-building (expenses covered)
• 4-6 weeks paid sabbatical (depending on tenure)
• Laptop budget up to 2,500€ and it renews every 3 years
• €2,000 budget to set up your home office and an additional €300 every year after 3 years of tenure
• €250 per month for co-working space membership and/or internet service at home
• €4,000 per year contribution to use for training, workshops, and conferences
• €2,000 per year contribution for any equipment or services to improve and/or maintain your physical and mental health
• Support for buying tools you need for doing your best work (even eyeglasses if you need a new pair)