Principal Software Engineer

Job summary:

We are adding a Principal Software Engineer to our operations team. 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. Remote, open to candidates across Bangladesh. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

What you'll do:

• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.

Required qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• 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.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.

Preferred:

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.

Why work with us:

Pay: BDT 130,000 - BDT 145,000 per month

• Medical insurance.
• Provident fund.
• Paid leave.
• Two bonuses a year.
• Fuel allowance.

About us:

Our product started as a side project in 2017 and now has a few hundred paying customers, mostly in Dhaka Division. Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product.

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Flexible.

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