Software Engineer, Python

The Software Engineer, Python will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Remote within Germany. The team meets in Berlin once a quarter, travel covered. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

Duties:

• 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.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.

About you:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.

Pay and benefits:

• Company pension scheme.
• Holiday pay.
• Up to 3 days of home office per week.
• Christmas bonus.

About the company:

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones.

Start: Immediately.

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