Software Engineer I - Remote

Advisors, operations, compliance and technology teams total roughly 7,000 people. Since 1955, the firm has grown through acquisitions of independent advisory practices.

The role:

Switchgrass is hiring a Software Engineer I - Remote to work remotely from the US. 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. Remote position. Most of the team is in Las Vegas, but nobody is required to come in. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning.

Key responsibilities:

• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green

Minimum qualifications:

• 1-2 years of professional software development experience
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL

Pay: $108,000 - $142,000/year

What we offer:

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid parental leave
• Home office stipend

EOE. We participate in E-Verify.

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

Start: Immediately.

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