Senior Software Engineer

Who we are:

The platform hosts certification programs for several professional associations.

The role:

Wheatear Academy is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to work remotely from Italy. 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. This role is fully remote within Italy. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll work on:

• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk

What we're looking for:

• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure

Also helpful:

• Kubernetes and Docker in production

What we offer:

• Private health insurance
• Stock options
• Flexible remuneration plan
• Training budget
• Meal vouchers

Include your expected salary and earliest start date with your application.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Wheatear Academy S.n.c..