Senior Software Engineer

Wakeley Data Systems is a managed services provider with 360 employees, supporting more than 1,500 client organisations across Estonia. Headquartered in Tartu, the company has grown since 2012 by acquiring regional IT providers. Lunch is usually whatever is closest to the client site.

The role:

The Senior Software Engineer will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. We hire in Belgium through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning.

Job duties:

• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• 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.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• 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.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.

Preferred qualifications:

• Prior work at an early-stage startup.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.

Pay and benefits:

• Flexible hours.
• Paid sick days.
• 20 days paid time off.
• Annual learning budget.
• Co-working space stipend.
• Home office setup budget.

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Immediately.

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