Software Engineer (Search)

Headquartered in Melbourne since 2012, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. Southern Cross Systems employs 840 people across engineering hubs in Melbourne and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

The role

Southern Cross Systems is hiring a Software Engineer (Search) to work remotely from Switzerland. 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. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will need some overlap with Australian Eastern time in the mornings.

Responsibilities

• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.

Nice to have

• Contributions to open source projects.
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Prior work at an early-stage startup.

Salary range: CHF 650 - CHF 775/day

What you get

• Company laptop.
• Long-term engagement.
• Flexible hours.
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise.

We review applications as they come in.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Southern Cross Systems.