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Tyk • London, United Kingdom

Mid Go Developer - Portal

Employment type:  Full time

Remote-first

Fully flexible hours

Dog friendly

Job Description

Who are Tyk, and what do we do?

The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services. Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!)

If you’ve banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API’s, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. Founded in 2015 with offices in London - UK, London - Ontario, Atlanta and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe. Brands using Tyk range from Lotte, Bell, Dominos, Starbucks, to RBS and Societe Generale. We have a varied user base hailing from every continent – even Antarctica.

Our Mission

Tyk is on a mission to connect every system in the world. We’ve started by building an API Management platform.

Total flexibility, default remote, radical responsibility

We offer unlimited paid holidays and remote working from anywhere in the world, for everyone, Why? Tyk was founded on the principle of offering flexibility and autonomy to our employees, we believe this allows our employees to achieve their best results. It also means we can build the best possible team, location and working hours are no barrier.

If this sounds like an environment that you believe could work for you then read on to find out more.

Requirements

The role:

You will be responsible for designing and building high quality and customer centric solutions on our Developer Portal. You will work with Senior Product Managers, Technical Leads, UX Designers, QAs, and a team of talented engineers to bring our vision for the Portal platform to life. This role also will play a key part in our continuous improvement journey, building out high levels of pipeline automation, great unit testing, and ensuring we live up to our engineering policies, processes, and standards.

We’d love it if you had line management experience, and are keen to impart some of your knowledge in managing and growing junior engineers - but this is not essential!

We have an exciting multi-year roadmap to help grow Portal into something much more powerful than it is today.

Here’s what you’ll be getting up to:

  • Contributing to strategic direction of Tyk Portal, working with the Senior Product Manager and Technical Lead to suggest new ideas or challenge existing strategy
  • Focusing on creating great quality , low technical debt, and optimal experience solutions for our customers
  • Responsible for ensuring your feature to debt ratio remains healthy
  • Code using well accepted design patterns that allow for future scaling
  • Working with DevSecOps to embed a security first approach to our product iteration and ensure what is released is safe for our customers
  • Takes responsibility for the quality, maintainability and flexibility of code written by you
  • A leader of ensuring we write automated tests for every new capability and bug fix and ensure this culture permeates.
  • Have a clear focus on creating , coding, and testing solutions for non functional use cases - technical debt reduction, documentation improvement, security, stability, bug fix
  • Be an advocate of adhering to Tyk coding standards - ensuring test cases are written, ensuring documentation is written, driving high levels of automation in our pipeline process, ensuring tests are passing before merge
  • Be an advocate of adopting our Scrum process , being an example in working to definition of ready / done, improving estimation, good quality ticket creation, input into grooming etc
  • Be a key shaper and contributor to our continuous improvement agenda - be it the clarity of our user stories, how we estimate, or how we ensure continuous testing, we expect this role to be advocate of continuous improvement
  • Live and adopt a DevOps culture where we have a clear focus on release engineering quality and automation
  • If you are an experienced line manager, or want to grow into management, we’d love you to provide mentorship and line management of junior engineers

Here’s what we’re looking for:

  • Strong backend engineering experience in Go
  • Experience building applications in Go, C, C++
  • Experience using object relational mapping (ORM) in Golang
  • We’d love if it if you had experience of the QoR framework, but not essential
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes or other orchestration tools
  • Strong understanding of developer portal processes and practices
  • Passion for continuously improvement software delivery lifecycle
  • Experience of influencing and guiding product strategies through technical knowledge
  • Hands on development experience with server development
  • Team management and mentorship
  • Deep working understanding of DevOps best practice, particularly in relation to release engineering
  • Good understanding of product management and delivery processes, such as SCRUM and behaviour driven design
  • Good working experience of security first software development
  • Passionate about working on and contributing to Open Source
  • Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)

Benefits

Here’s why you should join us:

  • Everyone has unlimited paid holidays.
  • We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all.
  • Employee share scheme
  • Generous maternity and paternity leave
  • Company retreats

We all share the same vision - we value authenticity, respect, responsibility, independence, honesty, diversity and inclusion and most importantly treating others how you wish to be treated. We look for like-minded people who bring their personalities to work everyday, strive to achieve their personal goals and who are willing to challenge the way we do things, why? - to make what we do even better!

Our values tell the story of Tyk - here’s how:

  • It’s ok to screw up!

We’ve found that it’s often the ‘stupid’ or unexpected ideas that turn out to be the successful ones - so try it, at least we can say we have!

  • The only stupid idea, is the untested one!

It’s in our DNA - starting a business with founders 12 hours apart, giving our gateway away for free - sure, we did that, and we’d do it again!

  • Trust starts with you - make it count!

Trust is a two-way street - instil it from day one!

  • Assume best intent!

We have each other’s back - we’re all on the same team. Think before you speak or act.

  • Make things better!

Always try to leave things better than when you found them - change is constant, inevitable and embraced! Be that change we want to see.

What’s it like to work here?! check it out: https://tyk.io/worklife/

Tyk is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

You can see more about us here https://tyk.io

Company benefits

Enhanced maternity leave – 5 months full pay after completing 26 weeks' work
Enhanced paternity leave
Adoption leave
Shared parental leave
Work from anywhere scheme
Unlimited annual leave
Teambuilding days
Teambuilding holidays
Hofy home office set up
Equity packages
Company shutdown periods
Company wide holidays/offsites
Volunteer days
Location
98%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours
93%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
73%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
83%
Employees feel that they can find the perfect balance of life and work
Role modelling
95%
Employees feel that flexible working is part of the culture
Autonomy
89%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Working at Tyk

Company employees

137

Gender diversity (male:female)

33% female, 67% male

Office locations

London - UK, Atlanta - Georgia, Singapore, Canada

Funding levels

$40 million

Hiring Countries

Canada
Poland
Singapore
United Kingdom
United States

Awards & Achievements

Most flexible companies

Most flexible companies

Flexa100 2024
SaaS & Software

SaaS & Software

Industry awards 2023
2nd – Scaleup companies

2nd – Scaleup companies

Flexa100 2023
2nd – Saas & Dev Software

2nd – Saas & Dev Software

Industry awards 2022