Software Engineer II (Search)

Trellisbound employs 4,500 people across engineering hubs in London and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

Job summary

We need another Software Engineer II (Search) who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. Our headquarters is in London, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. We engage team members in Türkiye as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. You will need to be available during UK office hours, at least until 3:00 PM GMT. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

In this role you will

• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates

Minimum qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software development experience
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• 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
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up

Preferred

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Kubernetes and Docker in production

$4,900-$6,100/month

Compensation and benefits

• Paid time off
• Long-term engagement
• Monthly internet allowance
• Annual rate review

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

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