Senior Software Engineer

Egreenservices; City of Rochester (NY); On-site; USD 86,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Benefits

Flexible policy

Job summary

Public Affairs Institute in Rochester, NY is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own front-end and backend workflows with a focus on Django and RabbitMQ. The role offers a salary between $86,000 and $118,000 and includes mentorship, benefits, and a flexible policy.

You will build accessible interfaces using Cypress, lead the RabbitMQ workstream, and monitor performance metrics to guide decision-making. On-call rotations and postmortems are part of the responsibilities.

Qualifications

• 5 years of Django experience.
• Experience building accessible front-end interfaces.
• Ability to own and drive the RabbitMQ workstream.
• Comfort with on-call rotations and postmortems.

Responsibilities

• Build responsive, accessible front-end interfaces with Cypress
• Own the senior RabbitMQ workstream that unblocks Rochester, NY roadmap
• Track and report on key performance metrics for technology services
• Push RabbitMQ changes safely behind flags for quick rollbacks
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems

Skills

Django

Cypress

RabbitMQ

Frontend development

Incident response

Tools

Cypress

RabbitMQ

Job description

Help us reimagine how millions of people interact with technology as our newest Senior Software Engineer in Rochester, NY. With ownership, a $86,000 - $118,000 salary, and 5 years of Django to draw on, you'll do your best work at Public Affairs Institute.

Key Responsibilities

• Build responsive, accessible front-end interfaces with Cypress
• Own the senior RabbitMQ workstream that unblocks the rest of Public Affairs Institute's Rochester, NY roadmap
• Track and report on key performance metrics for technology services
• Push RabbitMQ changes safely behind flags so Rochester, NY rollbacks take seconds
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems

What You'll Bring

• 6 years of learning when to trust the process and when to break it
• Comfort being the newest person in the room and the loudest in the notes
• A collaborator's reflex to share credit and absorb blame
• The grit to debug at 4pm on a Friday without complaint
• A communicator who can disagree without making it personal
• A knack for Stress Management that colleagues quietly come to rely on
• Comfort with a Public Affairs Institute pace that rarely sits still

Public Affairs Institute is a Rochester, NY-based company on a service-minded path to redefine the technology industry. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll have a real voice in shaping how the technology team operates.

We trade fair $86,000 - $118,000 for your talent and throw in mentorship, benefits, and a flexibility policy people actually use.