Software Engineer

More than 450 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection.

Role overview:

This is a backfill for a team member who is relocating. We need another Software Engineer who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. Remote within the US. We meet in person once or twice a year.

What you'll do:

• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• 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
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green

Minimum qualifications:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• 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
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests

What you get:

Pay range: $71.00 to $79.00 an hour. Final offer will depend on experience.

• Referral program

Duration: 6 months. Start: Within 30 days.

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