Senior Go Developer
Relai is a Swiss-made, Bitcoin-only financial app that lets users buy and sell Bitcoin while retaining self-custody through a personal wallet and recovery phrase. It also provides services for high-volume private investors and businesses adding Bitcoin to their balance sheets.
Funding history
About Relai
Relai operates a Bitcoin-focused app for buying and selling Bitcoin using bank transfers, cards, Apple Pay, or Google Pay. Its self-custodial wallet gives users control of their Bitcoin and a 12-word recovery phrase, while its auto-invest feature supports recurring weekly or monthly purchases. The company also offers Relai Private for large-volume Bitcoin trades and Relai Business for small and medium-sized businesses seeking to hold Bitcoin on their balance sheets.
Skills
About the Role
Design, develop, and maintain high-quality backend microservices in Go, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance. Implement and maintain REST or gRPC APIs, troubleshoot production issues, participate in code reviews and audits, collaborate with product, DevOps, and QA teams, contribute to architecture decisions, optimize performance, and stay current with Go best practices.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional backend development experience
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with Go (Golang)
- Proven experience in API development using REST or gRPC
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tooling
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Solid knowledge of cloud and microservice design patterns
- Ability to write maintainable, high-quality code
- Self-starter capable of independent delivery
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and maintain backend microservices using Go
- Implement and maintain APIs using REST or gRPC
- Collaborate with product managers, DevOps engineers and QA/test engineers
- Participate in code reviews and audits
- Optimize application performance and resource usage
- Contribute to architecture and distributed systems design
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues
- Stay up to date with Go best practices and new tools
Benefits
- 100% remote work across Europe
- Company-provided MacBook laptop and iPhone
- Employee participation
- Yearly professional development budget
- 0% fees on Bitcoin purchases at Relai
- Blinkist, Spotify and Netflix subscriptions