Head of Engineering

BHH Apps is hiring a Head of Engineering to work remotely from Pakistan. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time.

Main duties

• 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
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items

What you'll need

• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests

Desirable

• Contributions to open source projects
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform

Pay and benefits

Salary: $2,600 - $3,400/month

• Company laptop
• Paid in USD
• Monthly internet allowance
• Annual rate review

Who we are

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at BHH Apps, LLC.