Senior Software Engineer

Blue Ridge Bank & Trust is a regional bank with over 200 branches and 670 employees across New York. Operations centres in New York City and two other cities handle deposits, card services and loan servicing. Banking holidays are paid days off.

The role:

Blue Ridge Bank & Trust is hiring for the Senior Software Engineer role on our Search team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Our team is spread across 9 countries. Headquarters is in New York City. 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 Eastern time.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.

Preferred qualifications:

• Contributions to open source projects.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Kubernetes and Docker in production.
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.

Salary: €5,800 to €7,500 per month

Benefits:

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise.
• Paid time off.
• Company laptop.
• Monthly internet allowance.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Blue Ridge Bank & Trust.