Software Engineer II

Headquartered in Prague, the company has grown since 1984 by acquiring regional IT providers. Our field services team covers retail chains, hospitals and banks, dispatching technicians to over 4,000 sites.

The role

Bittern Data Systems is hiring a Software Engineer II to work remotely from Czechia. 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. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Czechia. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

What you'll do

• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• 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
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• 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

Required qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design

Preferred qualifications

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Kubernetes and Docker in production
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain

Salary: CZK 110,000 - CZK 135,000 per month

Perks and benefits

• Private medical care
• Extra annual leave days
• Language courses
• Annual bonus
• Cafeteria benefit system

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Within 30 days.

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