Senior Software Engineer - Python

About Canalwater Computer Services:

Started by a former school district network admin in 2003, the business has grown almost entirely through referrals. Founded in 2003, we now have 33 employees.

The role:

This is a new position created as the team has grown over the last year. Our Search team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. This position is on site in Chicago.

In your first few months you will:

• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Draft short design docs for larger changes and walk the team through the tradeoffs.

What we're looking for:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.

Nice to have:

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

Benefits:

Pay: $190,000 to $220,000 per year

• Free parking.
• Cell phone reimbursement.
• 401(k) with company match.

A resume is enough to apply. Cover letters are optional.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Canalwater Computer Services LLC.