Graduate Software Engineer - Remote

Engagement teams range from three people to more than 200 on multi-year transformation programs. We work with Fortune 500 companies, federal agencies and large health systems. Founded in 1967, we now have 4,700 employees. We write a lot: proposals, status reports, slide decks and final reports.

The role

Our Payments team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. Magpiepost is hiring for the Graduate Software Engineer - Remote role on our Payments team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day.

Main duties

• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• 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.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.

Minimum qualifications

• 1+ years of professional software development experience.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.

Preferred qualifications

• Prior work at an early-stage startup.
• Kubernetes and Docker in production.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.

Compensation: MKD 98,000 - MKD 120,000 per month

What you get

• Monthly internet allowance.
• Home office setup budget.
• Company laptop.
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.
• Annual salary review.

Candidates must be eligible to work in North Macedonia.

Start: Within 30 days.

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