Senior Software Engineer

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

Overview:

The previous person in this role moved to another team. 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. Remote, open to candidates across the UK. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing.

Responsibilities:

• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.

Minimum qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.

What you get:

Pay: £96,000 to £118,000 pa

• Healthcare cash plan.
• Pension scheme with 5% employer contribution.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Workplace pension.

We are a Disability Confident employer.

This role is subject to a basic DBS check.

Unfortunately we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Start: Flexible.

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