Senior Software Engineer

About the company

Since 2009, the company has run a comparison site for car insurance, mortgages and credit cards. Two million people a month visit our recipe and meal planning site, which earns money from ads and a paid membership. We started in 2009 and have grown to about 60 people. Experiments run constantly, and most product decisions follow A/B test results.

We need another Senior Software Engineer who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. Our team is spread across 20 countries. Headquarters is in Mobile. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time.

Your responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense

Minimum qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design

Bonus points

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain
• Kubernetes and Docker in production

What we offer

• Long-term engagement
• Paid time off
• Paid in USD
• Monthly internet allowance

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

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