Senior Software Developer

Who we are:

Orders are packed by hand for two carrier pickups a day, and customer emails go to whoever is free. The founders built the first version of the site in 1995 on nights and weekends.

What this job is:

We are adding a Senior Software Developer to our operations team. 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 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 India. You will need a stable internet connection and a backup power source (UPS or inverter).

In your first few months you will:

• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic

About you:

• 5-7 years of professional software development experience
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL

Benefits:

• Learning budget
• Paid leave
• Flexible hours

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Start: Flexible.

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