Graduate Backend Developer

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

Overview:

The previous person in this role moved to another team. Brassline is hiring for the Graduate Backend Developer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Remote within the UK. The team meets in London once a quarter, travel covered. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.

What you need:

• 1-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.

Preferred:

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
• Prior work breaking up a monolith.

Salary: £44,000 to £53,000 pa

Benefits:

• Private medical insurance.
• Company pension.
• 33 days holiday including bank holidays.
• Long service awards.
• Share options.
• Life assurance (4x salary)

Successful applicants will be contacted within a week of the closing date.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Brassline Ltd.