Lead Software Engineer

Certifications include ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, and we hold partner status with Microsoft, Cisco and VMware. Across Texas, the company runs 14 branch offices and a central depot for hardware staging and imaging. Tickets live in ConnectWise and everyone logs time to the quarter hour.

About the role

Looking for a Lead Software Engineer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. Our headquarters is in Houston, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in Australia, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates

Minimum qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design

Preferred qualifications

• Contributions to open source projects
• Prior work at an early-stage startup
• Kubernetes and Docker in production
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform

$245,000-$315,000 per year

Why work with us

• Company laptop
• Monthly internet allowance
• Paid sick days
• 20 days paid time off

You must have full working rights in Australia.

Applications close when we find the right person, so get in early.

Start: Flexible.

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