Software Engineer - reliability and monitoring (Chicago, IL)

Westbrook Granite Community Partners is a Chicago charity working with residents on basic needs and opportunity, and we need a Software Engineer to lead our reliability and monitoring. You would join a large organisation of about 968 people based in Chicago. What you will do • Improve monitoring so we hear about problems before customers do. • Build and maintain web features used every day by our staff and customers. • Turn requests about volunteer shifts into simple, maintainable software. • Review teammates' code and share what you learn. • Fix bugs quickly and add tests so they stay fixed. What we are looking for • Proficiency in a mainstream language such as TypeScript, Python, Java or C#. • Comfort with SQL and a relational database. • Two or more years of professional software development. • Care about security and privacy of the data we hold. Nice to have • Cloud deployment experience. • Experience with volunteer shifts. Working arrangement • Contract for nine months, with the possibility of becoming permanent. • On site in Chicago, with some flexibility after the first few months. • We will tell you what to expect at each step of the hiring process.