Graduate Software Developer (Developer Tools)

About West Computer Services

Our technicians handle onsite and remote support for medical offices, accounting firms and manufacturers on fixed monthly contracts. Tickets live in ConnectWise and everyone logs time to the quarter hour.

The role

We are backfilling a position after an internal move. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. The company is based in Cologne, Germany. We are a distributed team spread across a few time zones. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET. You will need a stable internet connection and a backup power source (UPS or inverter).

In your first few months you will

• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates

What you bring

• 1+ years of professional software development experience
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up

What you get

Compensation: $8.50 - $10.50 per hour

• Long-term engagement
• Paid in USD
• Monthly internet allowance
• Paid time off

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at West Computer Services GmbH.