Software Engineer II, Go

Two million people a month visit our recipe and meal planning site, which earns money from ads and a paid membership. Since 2006, the company has run a comparison site for car insurance, mortgages and credit cards. We ship small changes daily rather than big quarterly releases.

The Software Engineer II, Go will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Remote position. Most of the team is in St. Louis, but nobody is required to come in. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:

• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed

YOU'LL NEED:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design

WHAT YOU GET:

Salary range: $128,000-$175,000 per year

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Paid holidays
• Cell phone reimbursement

We read every application and reply within about a week.

Start: Flexible.

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