Senior Software Engineer, Developer Tools

We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. Our main product is a payroll and timekeeping app for hourly workforces, sold by subscription and supported from Sofia.

This role opened up after a team member moved internally. The Senior Software Engineer, Developer Tools will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. 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 within Bulgaria. The team meets in Sofia once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Job duties:

• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Pay and benefits:

• Private medical care.
• Life insurance.
• B2B contract option.
• Stock options.
• Meal vouchers.
• Remote work allowance.
• Annual bonus.

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Flexible.

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