Junior Software Engineer

About St. Louis Digital:

Two million people a month visit our recipe and meal planning site, which earns money from ads and a paid membership. Since 2006, the company has run a comparison site for car insurance, mortgages and credit cards. We ship small changes daily rather than big quarterly releases.

About the role:

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Junior Software Engineer. Our Integrations team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. Remote within the US. The team meets in St. Louis once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

What you'll work on:

• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.

What you bring:

• 1+ years of professional software development experience.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits:

Compensation: $96,000 to $120,000/year

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with 4% match.
• 11 paid holidays.
• $1,000 home office setup budget.
• Life insurance.

No agencies or third-party recruiters, please.

Start: Immediately.

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