Software Engineer I (Platform)

About Kowalski Courses

Voiceover is recorded in a closet studio lined with foam. Everyone reviews everyone else's work before it goes to the client. Fridays are meeting-free.

The role

We need another Software Engineer I (Platform) who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

In your first few months you will

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic

What we're looking for

• 1+ years of professional software development experience
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers

Bonus points

• Prior work at an early-stage startup
• Kubernetes and Docker in production

What you get

Pay: $98,000 - $113,000 annually

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with 4% match
• 11 paid holidays
• Profit sharing
• Dental insurance
• Paid sick leave

Start: Immediately.

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