Graduate Software Engineer, C++

Overview

We are adding a Graduate Software Engineer, C++ to our Platform team. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. Remote, open to candidates across Germany. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

What you'll do

• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk

You'll need

• 1+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line

Preferred qualifications

• Prior work at an early-stage startup
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform

What we offer

Salary: €36,000 to €48,000/year

• Company pension scheme
• Holiday pay
• Urban Sports Club membership
• JobRad bike leasing

A bit about us

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Start: Immediately.

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