Software Engineer

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Lahore, Punjab and two nearshore delivery centres. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

Role overview

This is a backfill for a team member who moved to another team. The Software Engineer will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them. You will need a stable internet connection and a backup power source (UPS or inverter).

What you'll do

• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense

Minimum qualifications

• 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
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests

Preferred

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Contributions to open source projects

Why work with us

• Monthly internet allowance
• Flexible hours
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise
• Paid in USD

Let us know your current notice period and salary expectations.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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