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Staff Engineer (Go)

  • Hybrid
    • Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Engineering

Job description

Who are we?

Gain.pro is on a mission to provide global private market visibility. Our industry-leading platform combines advanced AI tech with local-for-local research. It delivers the highest quality information on the companies that matter to you most.

We serve 100% of MBB/Big-4 advisories, clients representing >$500bn of private equity capital and more than 70% of the top-20 global M&A houses. Examples include Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and McKinsey. We lead the market on customer satisfaction, as validated by external research (User Evidence survey 2023).

Gain.pro has been named as one of Europe’s top 50 fastest growing businesses, operating globally with offices in Amsterdam, London, Frankfurt, Warsaw and Bangalore.


The role

The role will be focused on backend development. You'll focus on delivering product features, developing backend APIs, data collection and ingestion services. Your technical knowledge will drive our backend architecture and mentor the engineering team.


The team

Our tech team is based in Amsterdam, where most of us work 2 days a week onsite. We are a lean team of 10 senior engineers and 4 colleagues in Product and Design. Together we operate efficiently and pragmatically, where everyone’s voice is heard. We are rapidly scaling so there's plenty of room to have a big impact and set directions. Apart from a short daily stand-up we keep meetings to a minimum. We do a monthly tech-team social event on Tuesday evenings that you are welcome to join.

Job requirements

Your experience

  • > 8 years of software development
  • > 4 years Go
  • Deep knowledge of Go best practices and standards
  • Strong experience with PostgreSQL or similar SQL databases
  • Experienced deploying Go applications on cloud platforms
  • API and SaaS backend web app development
  • Data scraping, aggregation, processing, and ingestion

Bonus if you have

  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform

  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling, such as Terraform or Pulumi

  • Experience with data pipelines and large-scale data aggregation

  • Experience in FinTech, economics, or private equity

  • An interest in GenAI (we have shipped multiple features and have many more in the pipeline)


What we offer

  • Working with excellent colleagues on a product that is loved by its customers

  • Flexibility and freedom

  • Modern stack

  • Excellent compensation

  • Equipment of your choice

  • Company-wide outings and events

  • Well-funded company that is healthy and fast-growing


Does this sound like a perfect match?

Don't hesitate. Apply now or reach out to our Head of Engineering, Jasper Kuperus. Let's explore the potential for a perfect match!

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Hybrid
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands
Engineering

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