Software Engineer II (Go)

Regional offices in London and five other cities support agents and policyholders. Catastrophe teams deploy adjusters within days of a major storm. Founded in 1988, we now have 4,900 employees. Most of the office has been here more than ten years.

Position summary:

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Software Engineer II (Go). Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. 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. The company is based in London, the UK. The team is spread across multiple countries. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Working hours overlap with UK business hours. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

What you'll be doing:

• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• 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
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed

Required qualifications:

• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers

Nice to have:

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain
• Contributions to open source projects
• Kubernetes and Docker in production

Pay and benefits:

• Paid time off
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise

Please submit your CV in English.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Mexico.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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