Software Engineer

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Headquartered in Sydney since 2006, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. We started in 2006 and have grown to about 590 people. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

About the role

Galestead Data is looking for a Software Engineer to join a small, steady team. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. The company is based in Sydney, Australia. The team is distributed across several countries. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Core hours overlap with Sydney business hours until mid-afternoon. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

What you'll be doing

• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• 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
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items

What you need

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• 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

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

The salary range for this role is $71.50-$78.50 per hour. This range reflects base salary only.

What you get

• Paid time off
• Monthly internet allowance
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Galestead Data Pty Ltd.