About the job

Since 1981, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing. Content moderation runs around the clock, with reviewers in multiple time zones and languages. We started in 1981 and have grown to about 7,800 people. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

The position:

Thicketflow is looking for a Software Engineer III to join a small, steady team. Our Developer Experience team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. Remote position. Most of the team is in St. Paul, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Key responsibilities:

Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it

Minimum qualifications:

5-7 years of professional software development experience
Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure

Also helpful:

Contributions to open source projects
Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
Kubernetes and Docker in production

What you get:

Compensation: $194,000-$250,000/year DOE.

Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one
401(k) with 4% match
Paid parental leave
Short- and long-term disability
Stock options
Gym membership reimbursement

Thicketflow provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

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

Start: Flexible.

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