Senior Software Developer

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts.

Position summary

TWA Technologies is looking for a Senior Software Developer to join a small, steady team. Our operations team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. The company is based in Buffalo, the US. We are a distributed team spread across a few time zones. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Responsibilities

• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.

What you need

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.

Preferred qualifications

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.
• Prior work at an early-stage startup.

Salary: $13.00-$15.50 per hour

What you get

• Long-term engagement.
• Flexible hours.
• Monthly internet allowance.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Flexible.

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