Graduate Backend Developer

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. We started in 1992 and have grown to about 4,100 people. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

The role:

Canopycast is hiring for the Graduate Backend Developer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. Hybrid, with three days a week in our Newcastle upon Tyne office.

Your responsibilities:

• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.

What you need:

• 1-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.

Preferred qualifications:

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.

Salary: £37,000 to £48,000 per annum

What we offer:

• Private medical insurance.
• Company pension.
• 28 days annual leave including bank holidays.
• Workplace pension.

Interviews will be held in person at our Newcastle upon Tyne office.

Start: Immediately.

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