Graduate Software Engineer

Most clients live within an hour's drive and come in for reviews twice a year. Our office is in a converted house near downtown Cologne. Still family owned, 50 years on. Quarter-end is busy, and everyone helps with client review prep.

About the role:

Beratung Friedrich is hiring a Graduate Software Engineer to work remotely from India. 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. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. Working hours overlap with Central European Time.

Responsibilities:

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates

Skills and experience:

• 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
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests

Compensation and benefits:

• Paid in USD
• Monthly internet allowance
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise

We may close this posting early once we have enough applications.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Beratung Friedrich GmbH.