Senior Software Developer - Go

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Founded in 1979, we now have 2,000 employees.

Job summary:

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. Prairieside is hiring for the Senior Software Developer - Go role on our Search team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Our team is spread across 9 countries. Headquarters is in New York City. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Job duties:

Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items. Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk. Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense. Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.

Skills and experience:

7+ years of professional software development experience. Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL. Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript. Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design. Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure. Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.

Why work with us:

Pay: $1,900 - $2,250 per month

Annual rate review. Company laptop. Paid time off. Paid in USD.

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Flexible.

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