Senior Software Engineer

• Codebase ownership — senior developer and technical area owner for the platform and ancillary projects, working alongside the Director of Engineering on architecture decisions
• Releases and deployments — working within Soutron's established release process; understanding the current manual release cycle across 8 production servers and proposing improvements toward automated, pipeline-driven deployments
• Infrastructure awareness — not directly responsible for server administration, but expected to have working knowledge of the infrastructure stack (Debian Linux, Nginx, Apache/mod_perl, MariaDB/Galera, Solr, PowerDNS, Let's Encrypt) and to proactively identify and propose improvements to existing infrastructure patterns
• Engineering process adoption — adopting Soutron's established SDLC, Agile Scrum methodology, Bitbucket-based CI/CD pipelines, and code review practices across the acquired team
• Mentorship & engineering culture — share knowledge with peers, help raise the team's technical standards, and contribute to code review and engineering best practices
• Security and compliance — dependency scanning, penetration testing coordination, MFA rollout, SOC 2 readiness roadmap
• Platform modernization — progressively evolving the stack toward modern patterns (REST API layer, frontend modernization, containerization) without disrupting a live production system

• Perl (essential) —  5+ years of production Perl development; must be comfortable with mod_perl, CPAN module management, Template Toolkit, and navigating large, long-lived Perl codebases; experience modernizing or refactoring legacy Perl is a strong advantage
• Apache Solr (essential) —  3+ years of hands-on Solr experience for search and indexing; understanding of index configuration, query tuning, and cluster management via Zookeeper; Elasticsearch experience considered in addition to, not instead of, Solr
• Infrastructure knowledge — solid understanding of Linux-based server environments (Debian/Ubuntu, Nginx, Apache, SSH, SSL/TLS); able to read, assess, and propose improvements to infrastructure configuration without necessarily owning day-to-day administration
• Relational databases — MariaDB or MySQL; understanding of clustering and replication (Galera experience a plus)
• Full-stack web development — understanding of how server-rendered HTML applications work end-to-end; JavaScript (jQuery era and modern)
• Agile Scrum — proven experience working within an established Agile Scrum methodology; comfortable with sprint planning, standups, story pointing, and sprint reviews
• SDLC practices — experience working within a formal software development lifecycle including code review, branching strategy, CI/CD pipelines, and QA gates
• DevOps fundamentals — CI/CD pipeline setup, branching strategies, automated testing, deployment scripting
• Security awareness — understanding of common web vulnerabilities (XSS, SQL injection, CSRF), CVE scanning, dependency management
• Communication and documentation — ability to produce clear technical documentation; comfortable working with non-technical stakeholders

• Experience inheriting and stabilizing a legacy production codebase
• Background in library technology, cataloging, or information management — familiarity with MARC, Z39.50, SIP/SIP2, ILL, or OPAC concepts is a plus but not required; a willingness to learn the domain is what matters
• Experience with Elasticsearch in addition to Solr
• Go or Python experience (for ancillary tooling and future development)
• REST API design and implementation
• Atlassian suite — Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence
• Containerization — Docker, Kubernetes (for future infrastructure evolution)

• Remote-first. The team is fully distributed. We default to async, keep meetings purposeful, and trust people to manage their own time.
• Small team, real ownership. You won't be lost in a layer of process. Your work ships, and you get credit for it.
• Pragmatic, not dogmatic. We pick tools and patterns that fit the problem. We're modernizing — but we respect the systems our customers depend on today.
• Learning is part of the job. We set aside time for reading, experimentation, and genuine skill growth, not just shipping.

• Competitive salary benchmarked to your market and experience.
• Fully remote working with flexible hours.
• Generous paid time off and public holiday allowance.
• Budget for learning, conferences, books, and equipment.
• Meaningful work on a product that real customers rely on every day.
• The chance to help shape the engineering culture of a growing, investor-backed business.

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