Staff Software Engineer

More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

The position

Looking for a Staff Software Engineer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. Our Core Services team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. Remote position. Most of the team is in Hoboken, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

What you'll be doing

• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review

What you need

• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line

Pay and benefits

• Flexible spending account

GA Data is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Immediately.

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