Software Engineer II

Waltham Planning Group manages assets for more than 200,000 clients through 120 offices. Since 1926, the firm has grown through acquisitions of independent advisory practices. We started in 1926 and have grown to about 107,800 people.

Position summary:

We need another Software Engineer II who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

Key responsibilities:

• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical 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
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL

Preferred qualifications:

• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Contributions to open source projects
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain

Expected salary range: $186,000 - $220,000 per year, plus bonus eligibility.

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with 4% match
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave

Waltham Planning Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

Start: Immediately.

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