Head of Engineering

Since 1999, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing. Hollowpath operates consumer websites and apps used by tens of millions of people each month. Founded in 1999, we now have 1,700 employees.

Position summary

Looking for a Head of Engineering who wants to stay somewhere for a while. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET. Please make sure you have dependable internet and backup power.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design

Preferred

• Contributions to open source projects
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ

Compensation: $2,900-$3,600 monthly

Perks and benefits

• Company laptop
• Flexible hours

Duration: 3 months. Start: Flexible.

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