Head of Engineering

Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Houston and several other countries. More than 6,700 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection.

Overview

The Head of Engineering will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.

What you need

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.

Preferred

• Contributions to open source projects.
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.

$6,900 - $8,700/month

Perks and benefits

• Paid in USD.
• Company laptop.
• Paid time off.
• Annual rate review.

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

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