Software Developer (Platform)

Annual revenue from managed services has grown every year since 1984. Pebblegrid protects more than 4,000 organisations, from regional hospitals to Fortune 500 manufacturers.

The position

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Software Developer (Platform). 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 is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT.

What you'll be doing

• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense

Required qualifications

• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up

Nice to have

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain
• Contributions to open source projects
• Prior work at an early-stage startup

Compensation: $9.00-$10.00/hr

What you get

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise
• Company laptop

Duration: 9 months. Start: Immediately.

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