Software Developer (Search)

Merchandising and planning teams set assortments by region and climate. Fernstack & Co. operates more than 400 apparel stores and a large online business. Holiday season means extra hours for everyone.

Position summary:

This is a backfill for a team member who moved to another team. 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. Employment is through our payroll partner in Brazil. Salary is paid monthly in reais. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

In this role you will:

• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners

Required qualifications:

• 2+ years of professional software development experience
• 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
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI

Preferred:

• Contributions to open source projects
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Kubernetes and Docker in production
• Prior work at an early-stage startup

What we offer:

• Annual team retreat
• Annual salary review
• Company laptop
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end

If you are shortlisted, we will reach out to set up a first call.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Fernstack & Co. A/S.