Remote Software Engineer Jobs

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

• Understand and follow our standardized software engineering processes to design, develop, document, review, test, analyze, and release code
• Research, design, and develop new software applications
• Identify areas for modification in existing systems and make improvements.
• Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and deliver high-availability and performance
• Contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review
• Collaborate with other team members, such as product managers, UI/UX designers, engineers, system analysts, and marketing managers, to produce the desired software solutions
• Collaborate with technical authors to create specifications and write operational documentation

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• 3+ years of software engineering experience (we make rare exceptions if you are highly skilled)
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages, frameworks, or libraries, such as React, Node, Python, JavaScript, React Native, PHP, Vue, Java, Golang, Ruby on Rails, Angular, and Django, among others
• Excellent computational problem-solving skills and expert understanding of designing, coding, debugging, and testing procedures
• Excellent understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Experience in web/mobile application development, Unix/Linux environments, distributed/parallel systems, information retrieval, networking, or systems/security software engineering
• Ability to work full-time (40 hours/week) concurrently with US time zones for a minimum of 4 hours/day
• Fluency in English and the communication skills to effortlessly collaborate with engineering managers at U.S. software companies

Preferred skills

• Deep understanding of large systems, complex code bases, and version control systems such as Git
• Understanding of concepts such as local storage, caching, effective memory usage, code optimization, scaling, throughput, etc
• The capability to function and find effective solutions to problems without hand-holding and micromanagement
• Tackle complex tasks by putting to use your problem-solving skills and analytical abilities