Software Developer - Go - Remote

About Wheelwright IT:

Started by a former school district network admin in 2021, the business has grown almost entirely through referrals. We started in 2021 and have grown to about 18 people.

What this job is:

The Software Developer - Go - Remote will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design.

Day to day:

• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.

Nice to have:

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.

What you get:

• Paid parental leave.
• Co-working space stipend.
• Annual salary review.
• Company laptop.
• Annual learning budget.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Zambia.

Start: Immediately.

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