Junior Software Engineer - Identity

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

Job summary

This is a backfill for a team member who moved to another team. We need another Junior Software Engineer - Identity who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. 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. Remote position. Most of the team is in New York City, but nobody is required to come in. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

Responsibilities

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• 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
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana

Minimum qualifications

• 0-2 years of professional software development experience
• 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
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript

Nice to have

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

Expected salary range: $104,000 - $120,000/year, plus bonus eligibility.

Compensation and benefits

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%
• Paid holidays
• Employee discount

Kestrelscale provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

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