Junior Software Engineer

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems license our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

Overview

Tillerhall has an opening for a Junior Software Engineer. Our operations team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. We are headquartered in Melbourne and have been hiring remotely since 2020. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in the US, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. You will need some overlap with Australian Eastern time in the mornings.

Day to day

• 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
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic

Required qualifications

• 1-2 years of professional software development experience
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests

Compensation: $115,000 - $133,000 per year DOE.

Pay and benefits

• 20 days paid time off
• Public holidays observed per your country
• Company laptop
• Flexible hours
• Paid parental leave

EOE. We participate in E-Verify.

Start: Immediately.

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