Senior Software Developer

Who we are:

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day.

We are adding a Senior Software Developer to our operations team. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. Our team is spread across 9 countries. Headquarters is in Rotterdam. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Working hours overlap with Central European Time.

Day to day:

• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.

Benefits:

Rate: $2,250 - $3,100 per month

• Long-term engagement.
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise.
• Company laptop.
• Paid time off.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Rutledge Digital B.V..