Software Engineer III

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Knoxville, Tennessee and two nearshore delivery centers. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

The role:

Tacklerun Systems is hiring for the Software Engineer III role on our Developer Experience team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Hybrid, with three days a week in our New York City office.

In this role you will:

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Draft short design docs for larger changes and walk the team through the tradeoffs.
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.

Required qualifications:

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.

Preferred:

• Prior work at an early-stage startup.
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Kubernetes and Docker in production.
• Contributions to open source projects.

The salary range for this role is $225,000 - $275,000 annually. This range reflects base salary only.

What you get:

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid holidays.
• Professional development budget.

We review applications on a rolling basis.

Start: Flexible.

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