Principal Software Engineer

The company

Clients come to us for job training, GED classes, CV help and placement with local employers. We provide emergency shelter, rapid rehousing and case management for families experiencing homelessness. We started in 1979 and have grown to about 130 people.

This role opened up after a team member moved internally. Our operations team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do

• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk

You'll need

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

What you get

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise
• Monthly internet allowance

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Peterson Family Services OÜ.