Software Engineer, Developer Tools

Nesbitt Media is an independent agency with 240 employees in offices across the US. Creative reviews happen every Wednesday, and anyone can sit in.

Role overview:

The Software Engineer, Developer Tools will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Remote within the US. The team meets in Baltimore once a quarter, travel covered.

What you'll do:

• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.

Preferred qualifications:

• Contributions to open source projects.
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.

Expected salary range: $148,000-$180,000/year, plus bonus eligibility.

What you get:

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid parental leave.

Nesbitt Media provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

A resume is enough to apply. Cover letters are optional.

Most hires start within two to three weeks of an offer.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Nesbitt Media.