Software Engineer II, Developer Tools

Founded in 2014, the business writes the billing, metering and customer portal software that small water and electric utilities run on. The product is a mobile app plus a React web dashboard, with a Python and PostgreSQL backend on AWS.

About the role

The Software Engineer II, Developer Tools will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Remote within the US. The team meets in Buffalo once a quarter, travel covered. We keep meetings to a minimum and work mostly async. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• 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.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.

What you'll need

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.

What you get

Salary range: $136,000 - $173,000 annually

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Cell phone reimbursement.
• Dental insurance.
• Equity.

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you need an accommodation during the application process, let us know.

Most hires start within two to three weeks of an offer.

Start: Immediately.

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