Software Engineer

Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Houston and several other countries. More than 6,700 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection.

Role overview:

The Software Engineer will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Remote position. Most of the team is in Houston, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

In this role you will:

• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.

Required qualifications:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.

Salary: $146,000 - $170,000 per year

What we offer:

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Gym membership reimbursement.
• Professional development budget.
• Vision insurance.
• Paid holidays.

Velvetridge provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

Start: Flexible.

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