Senior Software Engineer, Remote

More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

The position

Lilactower Labs is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Remote to join a small, steady team. 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. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. We keep meetings to a minimum and work mostly async.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners

Minimum qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript

Nice to have

• Contributions to open source projects
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain

Rate: $199,000 - $240,000/year

Pay and benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Three weeks of PTO to start
• 11 paid holidays

Lilactower Labs is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Apply with your resume. A cover letter is optional.

Start: Flexible.

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