Senior Software Engineer

About St. Petersburg Labs:

Our main product is a payroll and timekeeping app for hourly workforces, sold by subscription and supported from St. Petersburg.

What this job is:

The Senior Software Engineer will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Remote within the US. The team meets in St. Petersburg once a quarter, travel covered. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

In your first few months you will:

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags

About you:

• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI

Pluses:

• Kubernetes and Docker in production
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ

Compensation and benefits:

Compensation: $169,000-$210,000 annually DOE.

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Paid time off
• Annual bonus
• Life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability
• 401(k) with company match

Start: Within 30 days.

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