Junior Software Engineer, Developer Tools

Our advisors handle retirement planning, investment management and estate coordination for about 900 households. Small businesses use our merchant services for card processing, POS terminals and next-day funding. Most staff have been with the firm for more than eight years.

We have an immediate opening for a Junior Software Engineer, Developer Tools in New York City. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. Our Core Services team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. This is a hybrid role. Most of the team is in the New York City office Tuesday to Thursday.

Your responsibilities:

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed

What you'll need:

• 0-2 years of professional software development experience
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL

Pay and benefits:

Pay: $125,000 - $146,000/year

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Three weeks of PTO to start

We read every application and reply within about a week.

Start: Immediately.

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