Software Engineer

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Founded in 2005, we now have 250 employees.

The position

The Software Engineer will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Remote within India. The team meets in Vadodara once a quarter, travel covered.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up

Preferred qualifications

• Kubernetes and Docker in production
• Prior work at an early-stage startup
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ

What you get

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Meal coupons
• Learning budget
• Internet reimbursement

Start: Within 30 days.

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