Software Engineer II

About the company

Advertising, subscriptions and transaction fees each bring in a significant share of revenue. Canyonkit HQ operates consumer websites and apps used by tens of millions of people each month.

Position summary

Canyonkit HQ is hiring for the Software Engineer II role on our Identity team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. This role is fully remote within the US. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Key responsibilities

• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• 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
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners

About you

• 3-5 years of professional software development experience
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure

Pay and benefits

Expected salary range: $136,000-$181,000/year, plus bonus eligibility.

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one
• 401(k) with company match
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave

If this sounds like a fit, apply with a resume. A cover letter is optional.

Start dates are flexible, usually within a few weeks of an offer.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Canyonkit HQ, LLC.