Lead Software Engineer

Headquartered in Mississauga, the company has grown since 1995 by acquiring regional IT providers. Company vehicles are provided for techs who drive to client sites.

Overview:

We are creating this position because the workload has grown. 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. We engage team members in the US as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

What you'll be doing:

• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners

What you need:

• 8-10 years of professional software development experience
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure

Preferred:

• Contributions to open source projects
• Kubernetes and Docker in production
• Prior work at an early-stage startup

Expected salary range: $109.00-$122.00 an hour, plus bonus eligibility.

Compensation and benefits:

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise
• Annual rate review

Goldcrest provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

This position requires a background check.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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