Junior Software Developer, Java

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.

Role overview:

The role is new and comes from growth in our client base. 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. 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 Central time.

Duties:

Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana. Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items. Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners. Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it. Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic. Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback. Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk. Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.

Minimum qualifications:

1-2 years of professional software development experience. Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers. Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure. BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.

Nice to have:

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

Compensation: $3,600 - $4,700 per month

Pay and benefits:

Annual rate review. Flexible hours. Paid time off. Long-term engagement.

Let us know your current notice period and salary expectations.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

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