Graduate Software Developer - Go

Our advisors handle retirement planning, investment management and estate coordination for about 900 households. We started in 2005 and have grown to about 190 people.

The previous person in this role moved to another team. Our Identity team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. We are headquartered in Los Angeles and have been hiring remotely since 2020. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Pakistan, with a local contract and salary paid in Pakistani rupees. You will need at least 3 hours of overlap with US Pacific time. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• 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.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.

What you'll need

• 1+ years of professional software development experience.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.

Pluses

• Contributions to open source projects.
• Prior work at an early-stage startup.
• Kubernetes and Docker in production.

Benefits

Compensation: PKR 215,000-PKR 280,000 a month

• Annual learning budget.
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.
• Annual salary review.
• Paid parental leave.

Please submit your CV in English.

Please include your notice period and salary expectations.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at FS Asset Management.