Software Engineer

Advisors, operations, compliance and technology teams total roughly 7,000 people. Since 1955, the firm has grown through acquisitions of independent advisory practices.

Role overview

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Software Engineer. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. Our standups are at 9:00 AM Pacific. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

In this role you will

• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents

What you need

• 3-5 years of professional software development experience
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• 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

Preferred

• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain

Salary range: $1,950 to $2,350 per month

What you get

• Flexible hours
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise

We are reviewing applications as they arrive, so apply early.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Pakistan.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

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