Senior Software Engineer

Advisory services include transaction due diligence, valuation, forensic accounting and IT risk. Since 2006, the firm has grown through mergers with regional CPA practices. Busy season means 55-hour weeks from February through April 15, and summers are lighter.

The position

We need another Senior Software Engineer who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. 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. On site, Rockville.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• 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
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Draft short design docs for larger changes and walk the team through the tradeoffs
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• 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

Nice to have

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

The salary range for this role is $190,000 - $245,000 annually. This range reflects base salary only.

Compensation and benefits

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We review applications on a rolling basis.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Black Hills Tax & Accounting, LLC.