Principal Software Engineer

We process billions of card transactions a year for merchants, banks and software platforms. Headquartered in Jerusalem, the company runs operations centres in Jerusalem District and two other locations.

Job summary:

Parcelway is hiring for the Principal Software Engineer role on our Search team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. The company is based in Jerusalem, Israel. The team is distributed across several countries. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Brazil, with a local contract and salary paid in reais. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

Job duties:

• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.

Preferred qualifications:

• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Prior work at an early-stage startup.

What we offer:

• Monthly internet allowance.
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.
• Wellness allowance.
• Annual team retreat.

Shortlisted candidates will hear from us within two weeks.

Start: Immediately.

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