Lead Software Engineer

Headquartered in Munich since 2004, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Founded in 2004, we now have 340 employees. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

Position summary

We need another Lead Software Engineer who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. We hire in Greece through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• 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.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.

What you need

• 8-10 years of professional software development experience.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.

Nice to have

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

Why work with us

• Annual learning budget.
• 20 days paid time off.
• Annual team retreat.
• Paid sick days.
• Co-working space stipend.
• Public holidays observed per your country.
• Annual salary review.

Start: Flexible.

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