Go Engineer
Hybrid
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
12-03-2025
Job Specifications
Check out our new blog post - https://cord.co/techhub/architecture/articles/scaling-muzz-social-to-over-a-million-users-in-one-day
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We love Go, HTTP, gRPC and containers!
Come and join our backend team and design, build and support APIs that are requested tens of millions of times per day as well as internal tools that keep our community safe and our business efficient.
We run a modern containerised stack in AWS using a mixture of database technologies (MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Redshift, Elasticsearch) to serve different workloads. Our architecture is event-driven and we're bringing increasingly more machine learning into the hotpath.
Our platform ingests tens of millions analytic events every day which are visualised in our BI tools and we make data-driven decisions daily.
If you're looking to work on complicated technical challenges at scale then this role is for you. Ideally you have several years experience using Go (or another language like Python, Ruby, PHP, NodeJS) in production. You'll be comfortable with Docker, and have some familiarity with modern observability tools such as Prometheus, Alert Manager, Grafana and X-Ray/Tempo/Jaeger.
Why join Muzz?
We’re a profitable Consumer Tech startup, backed by Y Combinator (S17) and based in London. Join our fast growing team and work on an amazing product that’s changing the world.
A great product - We’re the leading app in this space with over 10 million members worldwide and counting!
Level up quickly - Work with talented, generous people on the kinds of challenges you’ll be proud to share.
A diverse team - We have people from all walks of life all adding their unique perspective. Muslims and non-Muslims, cat lovers and dog lovers. Everyone is welcome!
Meaningful equity - We’re all working together to succeed and everyone on the team gets a slice of the pie.
A hackathon every quarter - We value curiosity and building something wacky (but useful!). Every quarter we organise into random teams and together we build, code, and prototype. Prizes and dinner complete the day!
International travel - We fly the whole team to somewhere amazing twice a year to connect and have fun.
Regular socials - Mini golf, hikes, super competitive Catan nights - we’ve done it all. Maybe you’ll be at the next social?
Generous Holiday / PTO - All full-time members get at least 33 days of holiday, regardless of where they live.
Interview Process
Following an initial call you'll meet with some engineers in our backend team and senior management.
You'll also complete a short technical assignment which will be reviewed be senior engineers and we'll provide feedback within 48 hours.
About the Company
Muzz - the worlds biggest and best Muslim marriage app. Over 10 Million members worldwide, over 500,000 successes. Raised a total of $9M and backed by Silicon Valley based Y Combinator. Where Muslims meet. Know more
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