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 offers high-volume trading for private investors and Bitcoin balance-sheet services for small and medium-sized businesses.
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About Relai
Relai operates a Bitcoin-only app designed to make buying, selling, saving, sending, and receiving Bitcoin simple for beginners and experienced users. The app supports purchases via bank transfer, credit cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay, alongside recurring auto-invest plans. Its self-custodial wallet gives users control of their Bitcoin and private keys, with a 12-word recovery phrase for restoration. Relai also provides Relai Private for investors trading more than CHF/EUR 100,000 and Relai Business for small and medium-sized businesses adding Bitcoin to their balance sheets. The company states that it operates under regulatory frameworks in the EU and Switzerland.
Skills
About the Role
You will design, develop and maintain high-quality backend microservices in Go, ensuring scalability, reliability and performance. You will implement and maintain APIs (REST or gRPC), troubleshoot and resolve production issues, participate in code reviews and audits, and collaborate with product, DevOps and QA to deliver well-tested solutions. You will contribute to architecture decisions, optimize application performance, and stay current with Go best practices and industry tools.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional backend development experience
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with Go (Golang)
- Proven experience in API development (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 (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
- Company-provided MacBook laptop and iPhone
- Employee participation
- 0% fees on Bitcoin purchases at Relai
- Subscriptions to Blinkist, Spotify and Netflix
