Senior Software Developer, Search

Who we are:

Our bench is in the back of a strip-mall storefront, where we image laptops and swap failed drives. Certification exams are paid for, and passing one comes with a raise.

About the role:

We have an immediate opening for a Senior Software Developer, Search in Sliema. 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. We work hybrid out of Sliema, usually three days in, two days remote.

What you'll do:

• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Draft short design docs for larger changes and walk the team through the tradeoffs.

You have:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 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.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.

Desirable:

• Prior work at an early-stage startup.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Contributions to open source projects.

What we offer:

• Private health insurance.
• Meal vouchers.
• Stock options.
• Hybrid working.
• Flexible start and finish times.
• Training budget.

Relocation support is available for the right candidate.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Fortress Computer Services Ltd.