Lead Software Engineer

About Thicketflow

Since 1981, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing. Content moderation runs around the clock, with reviewers in multiple time zones and languages. We started in 1981 and have grown to about 7,800 people. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

The position

The Lead Software Engineer will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Sweden, with a local contract and salary paid in local currency. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Duties

• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags

Minimum qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers

What you get

Rate: SEK 96,000 to SEK 110,000 monthly

• Monthly internet allowance
• Co-working space stipend
• Annual team retreat
• Home office setup budget
• Annual learning budget
• Company laptop
• Paid parental leave

Start: Immediately.

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