Software Engineer

Headquartered in Raleigh, the company has grown since 2005 by acquiring regional IT providers. Founded in 2005, we now have 900 employees.

The position:

Barleyrun IT has an opening for a Software Engineer. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. Our team is spread across 9 countries. Headquarters is in Raleigh. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• 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
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of professional software development experience
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line

Nice to have:

• Contributions to open source projects
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain
• Kubernetes and Docker in production

Pay: $2,500 - $3,100 monthly

Perks and benefits:

• Paid in USD
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Barleyrun IT, Inc..