Head of Engineering

The company:

Hickorygate Technologies is a 43-person software shop in Arlington. The founders still answer support tickets.

Hickorygate Technologies is looking for a Head of Engineering to join a small, steady team. Our operations team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. This role is fully remote within the US. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed.

Job duties:

• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• 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.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.

Requirements:

• 12+ years of professional software development experience.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Why work with us:

Salary: $305,000 - $355,000 per year

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Professional development budget.
• Annual bonus.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Start: Flexible.

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