Graduate Backend Developer

Who we are

Customers who call us usually reach someone who wrote the code they are asking about. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

About the role

This is a backfill for a team member who moved to another team. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. Our headquarters is in Miami, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

Day to day

• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling

About you

• 1+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js

Pluses

• Prior work breaking up a monolith
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch

What you get

• Paid in USD
• Monthly internet allowance
• Annual rate review
• Paid time off

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

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