Graduate Software Developer

Everything runs on a single Rails app and one Postgres database, deployed on Heroku. We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios. Founded in 2004, we now have 15 employees. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

The role

Kennedy Cloud is looking for a Graduate Software Developer to join a small, steady team. 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. Our operations 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 Brisbane and have been hiring remotely since 2020. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in India, with a local contract and salary paid in Indian rupees. Core hours overlap with Sydney business hours until mid-afternoon. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

In this role you will

• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.

About you

• 1+ years of professional software development experience.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.

Nice to have

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Prior work at an early-stage startup.

Benefits

• 24 days paid time off.
• Annual learning budget.
• Monthly internet allowance.
• Annual salary review.
• Paid parental leave.
• Performance bonus.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Kennedy Cloud.