Software Engineer II, Go

Role overview

This role opened up after a team member moved internally. We need another Software Engineer II, Go who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. This role is fully remote within the US. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

Responsibilities

• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• 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.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.

You'll need

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.

Benefits

$143,000-$174,000 annually

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid time off.
• Home office stipend.

Company overview

Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product. Customers who call us usually reach someone who wrote the code they are asking about. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

New hires usually start two to three weeks after accepting an offer.

Start: Within 30 days.

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