Senior Software Engineer

The company

Hemlockgate manages assets for more than 200,000 clients through 120 offices. Institutional clients include pension funds, endowments and insurance companies.

Overview

The previous person in this role moved to another team. Hemlockgate is hiring for the Senior Software Engineer role on our Identity team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Our headquarters is in Bari, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

Job duties

• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags

What you'll need

• 6+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure

Preferred qualifications

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain
• Prior work at an early-stage startup
• Kubernetes and Docker in production

What we offer

Compensation: $105.50 - $115.50 per hour

• Long-term engagement
• Paid in USD
• Annual rate review

We read every application and reply within about a week.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Hemlockgate S.r.l..