Software Engineer

About the role

Fernhill Apps is hiring for the Software Engineer role on our Developer Experience team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in India. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

Main duties

• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 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.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.

Pluses

• Contributions to open source projects.
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.

Perks and benefits

• Flexible hours.

About us

Clients range from single-location retailers to franchise groups with hundreds of stores, all running our point-of-sale and loyalty software. Founded in 2007, the business writes the billing, metering and customer portal software that small water and electric utilities run on. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Fernhill Apps Pvt Ltd.