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:

Velvetset is hiring for the Software Developer role on our operations team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. The company is based in Madrid, Spain. The team is spread across multiple countries. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

Duties:

• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items

Minimum qualifications:

• 3-5 years of professional software development experience
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design

Nice to have:

• Prior work at an early-stage startup
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ

Salary: $3,400-$4,100/month

What you get:

• Paid time off
• Flexible hours

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Flexible.

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