Software Engineer (Search)

More than 560 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection.

The position

Torchside HQ is hiring for the Software Engineer (Search) role on our Core Services team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Remote, with occasional travel to Gothenburg (a few times a year).

Key responsibilities

• Draft short design docs for larger changes and walk the team through the tradeoffs
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense

Required qualifications

• 3-5 years of professional software development experience
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• 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
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure

Preferred qualifications

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain
• Contributions to open source projects
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ

Perks and benefits

• Private health insurance
• Occupational pension
• Parental leave top-up
• Five weeks of annual leave
• Wellness allowance
• Flexible working hours
• Training budget

This posting may close early if we receive enough applications.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Torchside HQ HB.