Software Engineer - Java

Ferrygrid employs 2,400 people across engineering hubs in London and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

Overview:

The Software Engineer - Java will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. We are headquartered in London and have been hiring remotely since 2020. Employment is through our payroll partner in Pakistan. Salary is paid monthly in Pakistani rupees. You will need to be available during UK office hours, at least until 3:00 PM GMT. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

What you'll be doing:

• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• 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.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• 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.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.

Preferred qualifications:

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Kubernetes and Docker in production.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.

Salary: PKR 460,000 - PKR 590,000 a month

Compensation and benefits:

• 20 days paid time off.
• Annual learning budget.
• Flexible hours.
• Public holidays observed per your country.

If you are shortlisted, we will reach out to set up a first call.

Start: Immediately.

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