Software Developer

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Chicago, Illinois and two nearshore delivery centres. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

We are replacing a colleague who is moving away. The Software Developer will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design.

Duties

• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• 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.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.

You'll need

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.

Pay and benefits

• Private health insurance.
• Gym membership.
• Meal vouchers.

Start: Within 30 days.

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