Software Engineer

The company:

Headquartered in New York City, the firm is employee-owned. Chesapeake Advisory is a management and technology consulting firm with 340 employees worldwide.

Role overview:

Chesapeake Advisory is hiring for the Software Engineer role on our Billing team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. We are headquartered in New York City and have been hiring remotely since 2020. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk

Required qualifications:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up

What we offer:

Rate: $4,600-$5,800/month

• Paid in USD
• Paid time off

We may close this posting early once we have enough applications.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Chesapeake Advisory, LLC.