Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Who we are

Second-generation ownership: the founder's daughter runs the agency now. Personal lines make up about 70 percent of premium. January renewals keep everyone busy for a few weeks.

The role is new and comes from growth in our client base. The Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Duties

Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates. Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents. Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense. Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic. Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners. Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags. Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.

You'll need

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. Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.

What you get

Salary range: $2,050-$2,450 monthly

Long-term engagement. Paid in USD. Paid time off. Annual rate review.

We look at every application, usually within a week.

Please mention your notice period and expected salary.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Immediately.

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