Software Engineer

Headquartered in Munich since 2004, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Founded in 2004, we now have 340 employees. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

Position summary

Saddleworth Labs is hiring for the Software Engineer role on our Identity team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Greece, with a local contract and salary paid in euros. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

Responsibilities

• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• 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.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.

What you need

• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.

Preferred qualifications

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Kubernetes and Docker in production.
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.
• Prior work at an early-stage startup.

€3,700 to €4,600 per month

Why work with us

• Paid sick days.
• Public holidays observed per your country.
• Home office setup budget.
• 24 days paid time off.

Start: Within 30 days.

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