About the job

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

Role overview:

Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. Torres Labs is hiring for the Software Engineer role on our Billing team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Our team is spread across 11 countries. Headquarters is in Waltham. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.

Required qualifications:

2-4 years of professional software development experience.
Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.

Salary: $4,200 - $5,200 monthly

Benefits:

Long-term engagement.
Monthly internet allowance.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Within 30 days.

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