Senior Software Engineer

Institutional clients include pension funds, endowments and insurance companies. Regulatory oversight is constant, and the compliance department is one of the largest in the company.

Job summary:

We need another Senior Software Engineer who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. This is an in-person role at our San Diego location.

In this role you will:

• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates

Required qualifications:

• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have:

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Kubernetes and Docker in production
• Contributions to open source projects

Compensation: $181,000-$245,000 annually DOE.

What you get:

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%
• Three weeks of PTO to start
• Paid time off
• Employee assistance program
• Gym membership reimbursement
• Referral program

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Start: Flexible.

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