Head of Engineering

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems license our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

Role overview:

This role opened up after a team member moved internally. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. Selwyn Digital is hiring for the Head of Engineering role on our Core Services team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. This role is fully remote within the US. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

Key responsibilities:

• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback

Required qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL

Nice to have:

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain
• Prior work at an early-stage startup
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ

Compensation: $245,000 - $315,000 per year DOE.

What we offer:

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid holidays

Selwyn Digital is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

Start: Immediately.

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