Head of Engineering

Large incident response engagements can involve 20 or more responders working in shifts for weeks. Annual revenue from managed services has grown every year since 1995.

Job summary

We need another Head of Engineering who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. 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. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Key responsibilities

• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software development experience
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers

Preferred qualifications

• Kubernetes and Docker in production
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain

What we offer

• Annual rate review
• Flexible hours
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Immediately.

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