Software Developer

Headquartered in Brisbane, the company has grown since 2004 by acquiring regional IT providers.

The position

We're looking for a Software Developer to join our team. This is a remote role. 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. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will need some overlap with Australian Eastern time in the mornings.

Day to day

• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review

Required qualifications

• 3-5 years of professional software development experience
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Kubernetes and Docker in production
• Prior work at an early-stage startup

Pay and benefits

• Paid time off
• Long-term engagement

Shortlisted candidates will hear from us within two weeks.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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