Software Engineer

About Samarasinghe Cloud

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Jaffna, Northern Province and two nearshore delivery centres. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

The Software Engineer will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. 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. Remote within Sri Lanka. The team meets in Jaffna once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.

Skills and experience

• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.

Nice to have

• Kubernetes and Docker in production.
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.

What you get

LKR 210,000 - LKR 280,000 per month

• Medical insurance for you and your family.
• Company laptop.
• Life insurance.
• Internet allowance.
• Learning budget.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Sri Lanka.

Start: Immediately.

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