About the job

Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it. Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Los Angeles and several other countries. Core hours are 10 to 3, and the rest of the day is flexible.

The role:

The previous person in this role moved to another team. We need another Software Engineer who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. Our headquarters is in Los Angeles, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in India, with a local contract and salary paid in Indian rupees. Our standups are at 9:00 AM Pacific.

Day to day:

Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it

Qualifications:

Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design

Preferred qualifications:

Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
Prior work at an early-stage startup
Kubernetes and Docker in production
Contributions to open source projects

Perks and benefits:

Home office setup budget
Performance bonus
Monthly internet allowance
Co-working space stipend
Flexible hours
24 days paid time off
Annual learning budget

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Start: Immediately.

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