Software Engineer II, Platform

Development, finance, compliance and HR teams in Berlin support program staff in the field. Volunteers number in the thousands, coordinated through a dedicated volunteer services team. Evening and weekend events come up a few times a year.

Overview:

Barleyridge Outreach has an opening for a Software Engineer II, Platform. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. This role is fully remote within Germany. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish.

In this role you will:

• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items

Required qualifications:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• 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
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers

Preferred qualifications:

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ

Salary range: €81,000 - €107,000/year

Benefits:

• Company pension scheme
• Up to 3 days of home office per week
• Meal allowance

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Barleyridge Outreach GmbH.