Principal Software Engineer

Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Nashville and several other countries. Since 1988, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing.

About the role

We are adding a Principal Software Engineer to our operations team. Our operations team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. Our team is spread across 6 countries. Headquarters is in Nashville. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time.

Responsibilities

• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.

Nice to have

• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Contributions to open source projects.
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.
• Kubernetes and Docker in production.

Pay: $12.50 - $14.50 an hour

Why work with us

• Paid time off.
• Company laptop.
• Long-term engagement.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

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