Software Engineer

Position summary

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Software Engineer. Our operations team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. Our headquarters is in Minneapolis, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. You will need a stable internet connection and a backup power source (UPS or inverter).

Day to day

• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• 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
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk

You'll need

• 3-5 years of professional software development experience
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design

Preferred

• Prior work at an early-stage startup

Perks and benefits

$2,250 - $2,600 monthly

• Flexible hours
• Long-term engagement

About Saddleforge Labs

Small accounting firms in Minnesota use our engagement letter and e-signature tool, and most heard about us from a colleague. We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios.

Please submit your CV in English.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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