Senior Software Engineer

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day.

The role:

The Senior Software Engineer will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Remote position. Most of the team is in Chicago, but nobody is required to come in. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing. Equipment is provided, including a laptop.

Responsibilities:

• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• 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.

Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of professional software development experience.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.

Preferred:

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.
• Prior work at an early-stage startup.
• Contributions to open source projects.

Salary range: $194,000 to $225,000 a year

Perks and benefits:

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid time off.
• Flexible spending account.
• Home office stipend.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• 11 paid holidays.

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you need an accommodation during the application process, let us know.

If this sounds like a fit, apply with a resume. A cover letter is optional.

Start: Immediately.

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