Graduate Software Engineer - Python (Remote)

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

Job summary:

This is a backfill for a team member who moved to another team. SMR Cloud is hiring for the Graduate Software Engineer - Python (Remote) role on our Core Services team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day.

Day to day:

Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners. Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green. Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it. Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents. Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags. Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review. Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates. Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.

Minimum qualifications:

0-2 years of professional software development experience. Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests. Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL. Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line. Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers. Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.

Preferred:

Infrastructure as code with Terraform. Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain. Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.

Why work with us:

Company laptop. Paid time off.

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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