Principal Software Engineer, Remote

Who we are

Our main product is a payroll and timekeeping app for hourly workforces, sold by subscription and supported from Nottingham. Clients range from single-location retailers to franchise groups with hundreds of stores, all running our point-of-sale and loyalty software. We started in 2001 and have grown to about 70 people.

What this job is

We need another Principal Software Engineer, Remote who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation.

What you'll work on

• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.

What we're looking for

• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• 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.

Bonus points

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.

Why work with us

Salary: BDT 235,000 - BDT 320,000 a month

• Public holidays observed per your country.
• Annual salary review.
• Flexible hours.
• Annual team retreat.
• Annual learning budget.

Start: Immediately.

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