Staff Software Engineer

More than 300 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. We run a marketplace with over 300,000 active sellers and fulfillment centres in four regions. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

Job summary

Edwards Apps is hiring for the Staff Software Engineer role on our Identity team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Our team is spread across 17 countries. Headquarters is in Sheffield. Employment is through our payroll partner in Uruguay. Salary is paid monthly in local currency. Working hours overlap with UK business hours. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

Duties

• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• 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.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.

Preferred

• Contributions to open source projects.
• Kubernetes and Docker in production.
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.

Rate: UYU 175,000 - UYU 215,000 per month

What we offer

• Monthly internet allowance.
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.
• Paid parental leave.
• Annual team retreat.
• Home office setup budget.

We may close this posting early once we have enough applications.

Start: Immediately.

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