Software Developer, Infrastructure

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day.

About the role

Rutledge Digital is hiring for the Software Developer, Infrastructure role on our Integrations team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. The company is based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The team is distributed across several countries. Employment is through our payroll partner in Costa Rica. Salary is paid monthly in local currency. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Main duties

• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags

Qualifications

• 2-4 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
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up

Nice to have

• Contributions to open source projects
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ

Rate: CRC 2,600,000-CRC 3,100,000 per month

Pay and benefits

• Public holidays observed per your country
• Paid sick days
• Annual learning budget
• Paid parental leave
• Co-working space stipend
• Flexible hours
• Annual team retreat

This posting may close early if we receive enough applications.

We will only contact shortlisted applicants.

Start: Within 30 days.

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