Software Engineer II (Platform)

Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

Role overview:

Rudderwater has an opening for a Software Engineer II (Platform). Our Core Services team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. Employment is through our payroll partner in the US. Salary is paid monthly in USD. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning.

Duties:

• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• 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
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers

Nice to have:

• Kubernetes and Docker in production
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ

Compensation: $124,000-$163,000/year

What you get:

• Annual learning budget
• Flexible hours
• 20 days paid time off
• Paid parental leave

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Start: Immediately.

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