Software Engineer

Merchandising and planning teams set assortments by region and climate. Fernstack & Co. operates more than 400 apparel stores and a large online business. Holiday season means extra hours for everyone.

Position summary:

Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. We need another Software Engineer who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. Our headquarters is in Copenhagen, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

In this role you will:

• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.

Minimum qualifications:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.

Pay and benefits:

• Paid time off.
• Flexible hours.
• Company laptop.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Sri Lanka.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Fernstack & Co. A/S.