Software Engineer (Search)

About Bear Creek Wealth Management

Small business owners and physicians make up a large share of the client list. Bear Creek Wealth Management is a fee-only advisory practice with two advisors, a paraplanner and an office manager. Licensing exams (SIE, Series 7, Series 66) are paid for, with study time during work hours.

Position summary

We need another Software Engineer (Search) who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. Our team is spread across 11 countries. Headquarters is in Elgin. We engage team members in South Africa as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time.

Key responsibilities

• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.

You'll need

• 2+ years of professional software development experience.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.

What you get

Compensation: $5,000 - $5,900 per month

• Flexible hours.
• Annual rate review.
• Paid in USD.

Candidates must be eligible to work in South Africa.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Bear Creek Wealth Management.