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

The Senior Software Engineer will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. This role is fully remote within the US. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

In this role you will

• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript

Nice to have

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

$178,000 - $210,000 a year

What we offer

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%
• Three weeks of PTO to start
• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one

Yewgate provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

Agencies: please do not contact us about this role.

Start: Immediately.

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