Junior Software Engineer (Go)

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Lahore, Punjab and two nearshore delivery centers. More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

The role:

Looking for a Junior Software Engineer (Go) who wants to stay somewhere for a while. Our Identity team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. We hire in the US through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Few meetings, lots of written updates. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

Your responsibilities:

• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.

Qualifications:

• 1+ years of professional software development experience.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.

Preferred qualifications:

• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Kubernetes and Docker in production.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.

Salary: $101,000 - $129,000 a year

Benefits:

• Home office setup budget.
• Performance bonus.
• Company laptop.
• Public holidays observed per your country.
• Flexible hours.
• Annual salary review.

Hazelvault provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

If this sounds like a fit, apply with a resume. A cover letter is optional.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Hazelvault (Pvt.) Ltd..