Software Engineer I

About us

We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios. Downeast Technologies is a 2-person software shop in Erie. The founders still answer support tickets.

The Software Engineer I will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Remote position. Most of the team is in Erie, but nobody is required to come in. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Duties

• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.

What we're looking for

• 1-2 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.

Benefits

Rate: $96,000 - $110,000 per year

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with 4% match.
• Paid sick leave.
• Cell phone reimbursement.
• Annual bonus.
• Professional development budget.

New hires usually start two to three weeks after accepting an offer.

Start: Flexible.

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