Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Our lending business funds equipment, vehicles and working capital for small and mid-sized companies across Sri Lanka. PR Investment Partners manages assets for more than 200,000 clients through 120 offices.

Position summary

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. PR Investment Partners is hiring for the Senior Software Engineer, Platform role on our Developer Experience team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Remote, open to candidates across Sri Lanka. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

Responsibilities

• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of professional software development experience.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.

Nice to have

• Kubernetes and Docker in production.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Contributions to open source projects.
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.

Salary: LKR 350,000 - LKR 430,000 per month

Why work with us

• Flexible hours.

Please submit your CV in English.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at PR Investment Partners (Pvt) Ltd.