Software Engineer II (Search)

More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

Overview

Lilactower Labs is hiring for the Software Engineer II (Search) role on our Billing team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Remote position. Most of the team is in Chicago, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Duties

• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• 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.

What you need

• 3-5 years of professional software development experience.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.

Preferred qualifications

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.
• Prior work at an early-stage startup.

Expected salary range: $79.00-$89.00 per hour, plus bonus eligibility.

What we offer

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• $1,000 home office setup budget.
• Gym membership reimbursement.

Start dates are flexible, usually within a few weeks of an offer.

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Start: Immediately.

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