Junior Software Engineer, Remote

The company

Advisors, operations, compliance and technology teams total roughly 7,000 people. Since 1955, the firm has grown through acquisitions of independent advisory practices.

The Junior Software Engineer, Remote will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Our Payments team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling.

What you'll do

• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• 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.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.

Requirements

• 0-2 years of professional software development experience.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.

Compensation and benefits

Expected salary range: $110,000 - $143,000 annually, plus bonus eligibility.

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Three weeks of PTO to start.
• Vision insurance.
• Paid time off.

Start: Immediately.

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