Software Engineer (Platform)

Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Houston and several other countries. More than 6,700 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection.

About the role

The previous person in this role moved to another team. We need another Software Engineer (Platform) who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. Our headquarters is in Houston, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

Duties

• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review

Minimum qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software development experience
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI

Nice to have

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Contributions to open source projects
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain

Salary range: $29.50 to $34.50 per hour

What you get

• Annual rate review
• Long-term engagement

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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