Software Developer

More than 11,200 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it.

Position summary

The previous person in this role moved to another team. Velvetset is hiring for the Software Developer role on our Identity team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET.

Duties

• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software development experience
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript

Preferred

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Contributions to open source projects

Perks and benefits

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise
• Monthly internet allowance
• Flexible hours
• Paid time off

Candidates must be eligible to work in Bangladesh.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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