Senior Software Developer - Infrastructure

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Founded in 2008, we now have 230 employees.

Overview:

Heatherward Labs is looking for a Senior Software Developer - Infrastructure to join a small, steady team. Our Payments team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. Our team is spread across 14 countries. Headquarters is in Youngstown. We engage team members in Sri Lanka as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

Your responsibilities:

• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• 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.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.

Minimum qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• 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.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.

$2,250 - $2,600 monthly

Benefits:

• Paid in USD.
• Paid time off.
• Monthly internet allowance.
• Flexible hours.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Sri Lanka.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Within 30 days.

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