Graduate Backend Developer

About Ellery Systems:

We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios. Customers who call us usually reach someone who wrote the code they are asking about. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

About the role:

We're looking for a Graduate Backend Developer to join our team. This is a remote role. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. We engage team members in Pakistan as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. Working hours overlap with UK business hours.

Your responsibilities:

Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS. 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. Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB. Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current. Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.

Minimum qualifications:

1+ years of backend development experience in a production enviroment. Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms. Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.

Nice to have:

Elasticsearch or OpenSearch. Prior work breaking up a monolith. Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.

Perks and benefits:

Rate: $850 to $1,050 monthly

Monthly internet allowance. Paid in USD. Flexible hours.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Flexible.

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