Lead Software Engineer

About JM Apps:

Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product. We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios. Founded in 2022, we now have 17 employees. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

What this job is:

We need another Lead Software Engineer who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. The company is based in Houston, the US. Our team works from several countries. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in India, with a local contract and salary paid in Indian rupees. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

In your first few months you will:

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• 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.

About you:

• 8+ 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.

Also helpful:

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

Why work with us:

• Monthly internet allowance.
• Annual learning budget.
• Equity.
• Paid parental leave.
• Flexible hours.
• Home office setup budget.
• Paid sick days.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Start: Flexible.

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