Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Crossing Hurdles is seeking a Software Engineer for a contract position. The role involves working on software engineering tasks across various projects, including backend and full-stack development, and requires strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Work on challenging software engineering tasks across backend, full-stack, infrastructure, and systems-related projects
• Review, debug, improve, and explain code across different technical environments
• Design or evaluate practical solutions involving APIs, databases, services, integrations, testing, and deployment workflows
• Identify tradeoffs around scalability, maintainability, performance, reliability, security, and developer experience
• Communicate technical reasoning clearly in writing, including why a solution works and what alternatives were considered
• Collaborate with the customer s team on technical reviews, implementation decisions, and problem-solving exercises

Skills

• Have strong hands-on software engineering experience of at least
• Have strong experience in at least one backend or full-stack engineering environment, such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Java, C#, .NET, C++, Go, Ruby, PHP, or similar
• Have experience building, maintaining, or reviewing production-level applications, APIs, services, databases, or integrations
• Have a strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including debugging, testing, code quality, architecture, and technical tradeoffs
• Have the ability to explain complex engineering decisions clearly and objectively
• Be comfortable reading and reasoning through unfamiliar code or technical requirements

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