Software Engineer - C++

We process billions of card transactions a year for merchants, banks and software platforms. Regulatory oversight is constant, and the compliance department is one of the largest in the company. Dress is business casual, and suits come out for client meetings.

Position summary

The Software Engineer - C++ will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Remote position. Most of the team is in Chicago, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Duties

• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.

Required qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software development experience.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.

Preferred qualifications

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.

Starting pay: $136,000 - $181,000/year, depending on experience and certifications.

Pay and benefits

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution.
• 401(k) with 4% match.
• 11 paid holidays.

Start: Immediately.

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