Lead Software Engineer

About us

Everything runs on a single Rails app and one Postgres database, deployed on Heroku.

About the role

Looking for a Lead Software Engineer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. 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. Our team is spread across 20 countries. Headquarters is in Strasbourg. Employment is through our payroll partner in the US. Salary is paid monthly in USD. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET.

Day to day

• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic

What you bring

• 8-10 years of professional software development experience
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure

Preferred qualifications

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain

What we offer

Salary: $179,000-$200,000 annually

• Flexible hours
• Performance bonus
• 24 days paid time off
• Home office setup budget
• Public holidays observed per your country

Agencies: please do not contact us about this role.

Start: Immediately.

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