Software Engineer III - Remote

About the company:

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Laredo, Texas and two nearshore delivery centers. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year.

The Software Engineer III - Remote will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design.

Main duties:

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.

Who you are:

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.

Preferred:

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Kubernetes and Docker in production.
• Contributions to open source projects.

Compensation and benefits:

The base pay range for this position is $169,000 - $210,000 per year. Actual pay depends on experience, skills and location.

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with 4% match.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Life insurance.
• Paid time off.
• Three weeks of PTO to start.

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: Within 30 days.

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