Lead Software Engineer

Larchwater employs 4,800 people across engineering hubs in Huntsville and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems license our asset management platform under multi-year contracts.

Overview

We are creating this position because the workload has grown. We need another Lead Software Engineer who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. Remote, open to candidates across the US. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

What you'll be doing

• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it

Required qualifications

• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred

• Contributions to open source projects
• Kubernetes and Docker in production

Compensation and benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Paid parental leave
• Annual bonus
• Equity
• Flexible schedule

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you need an accommodation during the application process, let us know.

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

No recruitment agencies, please.

Start: Immediately.

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