Principal Software Engineer - Remote

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in London, England and two nearshore delivery centres.

The role:

The Principal Software Engineer - Remote will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. 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.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.

Qualifications:

• 8-10 years of professional software development experience.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.

Preferred:

• Contributions to open source projects.
• Prior work at an early-stage startup.
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.

Rate: LKR 680,000 to LKR 820,000 pcm

Perks and benefits:

• Public holidays observed per your country.
• Flexible hours.
• Monthly internet allowance.
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.

Start: Flexible.

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