Staff Software Engineer

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts.

The role:

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our team. This is a remote role. Our operations team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. Remote position. Most of the team is in Zürich, but nobody is required to come in. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing.

Your responsibilities:

• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• 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
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback

What you'll need:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• 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
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Why work with us:

• Company pension scheme
• 30 days of annual leave
• Flexible working hours
• Meal allowance

Start: Immediately.

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