Software Engineer

About PDQ

PDQ, founded in Salt Lake City, UT, USA, makes device management simple, secure, and Pretty Damn Quick through our products Deploy, Inventory, Connect, Detect, SimpleMDM and SmartDeploy. IT teams use our products to reduce complexity, improve efficiency, and enhance control in their unique environments. We are backed by TA Associates and Berkshire Partners, top-tier global private equity firms.

PDQ's Core Values: Honesty, Ownership, Collaboration and Improvement 

Job Description:

• This is an hybrid role and open to candidates in Salt Lake City, UT or within commuting distance of our South Salt Lake City headquarters. 

As a Software Engineer at PDQ, you will be crucial to developing and maintaining PDQ products. As a member of the engineering team, you will have various responsibilities, including implementing new functionality, eliminating bugs, maintaining our code, and growing as an engineer. You will be involved across the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, testing, deploying, monitoring and supporting critical systems.   

What you'll be doing:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software 
• Work across the entire technology stack, from code to infrastructure   
• Work with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools as necessary for building current project work   
• Collaborate with teams to deliver on project priorities within deadlines 
• Work with customers and team members on technical issues including software outages, security risks, maintenance, deployment, customer support tickets  
• Conduct research and prototyping efforts with little oversight 
• Exchange constructive, respectful, and frank code reviews with your peers  
• Collaborates with UX designers to improve the fit-for-purpose of products 
• Preparing for and participating in team meetings 

We're looking for people who have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related degree, or equivalent experience    
• Strong understanding of frameworks and languages associated with PDQ technical stack, including Elixir, React, PostgreSQL, LaunchDarkly 
• 2+ years of experience working on a variety of professional software development projects   
• Possess strong analytic, technical, and problem-solving skills   
• Ability to communicate effectively through written or verbal medium   
• Strong experience with SQL, data, and managing database migrations   
• Hands-on experience using Git version control with branching and pull requests 
• History of applying defensive security strategies for both client and server-side web systems   
• Strong ability to create lightweight proposals, diagrams, specifications, and other analyses from user requirements   
• Excellent debugging skills and pragmatic design experience   
• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks   
• Ability to read code and quickly make sense of an unfamiliar codebase     
• Ability to understand a problem space and make code changes safely   
• Experience engaging with open-source projects and communities 

Who you are:

• Ownership: You take responsibility for projects, drive results, and deliver on commitments 
• Honesty: You demonstrate integrity, transparency, and ethical behavior in all interactions 
• Collaboration: You work effectively with cross-functional teams and foster a culture of teamwork 
• Improvement: You continuously seek opportu