Senior Software Engineer

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Senior Software Engineer. 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 are headquartered in New York City and have been hiring remotely since 2020. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern.

Responsibilities

• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design

Benefits

Pay: $2,100-$2,500 per month

• Paid in USD
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise
• Paid time off
• Monthly internet allowance

The company

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Pakistan.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at BHH Apps, LLC.