Software Engineer, Developer Tools

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Founded in 1979, we now have 2,000 employees.

Overview

This is a newly created position. Prairieside is hiring for the Software Engineer, Developer Tools role on our Search team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Bangladesh, with a local contract and salary paid in taka. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern.

Day to day

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of professional software development experience
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line

Preferred

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Prior work at an early-stage startup

Compensation and benefits

• Performance bonus
• Company laptop
• Wellness allowance
• Flexible hours
• Annual learning budget

Start: Immediately.

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