Senior Software Engineer (FTC)

Job Description

PLOS, a non-profit organization, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the development and continuous improvement of their digital platforms. This role involves designing, coding, testing, and participating in agile ceremonies within a cross-functional product team. The Senior Software Engineer will also contribute to the overall platform architecture, ensure alignment with the architecture, and support development processes.

• Contributing designs, code, tests, and code reviews
• Participating in agile ceremonies
• Contributing to the overall platform architecture
• Ensuring new work aligns with the architecture
• Establishing and supporting development processes
• Managing platform health and technical debt

Requirements include significant professional software engineering experience in a full-stack environment, ideally with experience using Google Cloud, Python, React, Kubernetes, or similar technologies. The candidate should have hands-on experience developing, shipping, operating, and maintaining web applications, and a passion for delivering testable, instrumented, and reliable code.

• Significant professional software engineering experience in a full-stack environment
• Experience with Google Cloud, Python, React, Kubernetes, or similar technologies
• Hands-on experience developing, shipping, operating, and maintaining web applications
• Passion for delivering testable, instrumented, and reliable code
• Strong track record of using and improving agile software development practices
• Deep understanding and experience of at least one server-side language
• Expertise in cloud-native architectures

PLOS offers a fully remote work environment with a stipend for a home office, private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection, personal accident insurance, a pension with up to 10% employer match, 25 days of holidays, market-competitive maternity and paternity leave, birthday and three winter holidays off, and 2 days of paid time off for volunteering per year.

• Fully remote work environment with stipend
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Personal accident insurance
• Pension with up to 10% employer match
• 25 days holidays
• Market competitive Maternity and Paternity leave
• Birthday and three winter holidays days off
• 2 days paid time off for volunteering per year