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

_Before you apply, please note:

This is a remote role open to candidates residing in Romania.

As a Software Engineer, 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

Developing new features and improvements to our Rust-based Windows and Mac service
Work within CI/CD delivering code as a team daily
Collaborate with teams to deliver on project priorities
Work with customers and team members on technical issues including software outages, security risks, maintenance, deployment, customer support tickets
Conduct research and prototype efforts with autonomy
Exchange constructive, respectful and frank code reviews with your peers

We're Looking For People Who Have

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related degree, or equivalent experience
Experience developing Rust applications with Tokio or multithreaded concurrency patterns
Experience developing cross-platform applications for Windows and macOS (our Rust code runs on both)
Proven ability to build reliable, fault-tolerant networked applications using HTTP and WebSockets
4+ years of experience working on a variety of professional software development projects
Agile development experience
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 opportunities for growth, innovation, and personal development
Passionate about delivering business value by applying your engineering skills
Experience building clean and simple solutions at scale
Possess strong analytic, technical, and problem-solving skills
Ability to communicate effectively through written or verbal medium
Knowledge of Git version control and branching strategies
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

Benefits

PDQ offers all of the great perks and benefits you’d expect from working at a very cool tech company, and some you might not expect, including:

Supplementary health insurance
Paid holidays
Company laptop and accessories provided by PDQ

PDQ is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law. If you would like to request reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process, please contact hr@pdq.com.

The majority of PDQ's full-time roles do not qualify for sponsorship of employment visas such as the H-1B visa. This applies to scenarios where a candidate might possess temporary work authorization during their schooling or after graduation (e.g., CPT, OPT), but would require H-1B visa sponsorship within a few years of employment to retain eligibility for employment.