Graduate Backend Developer

About the company

Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

The position

This role opened up after a team member moved internally. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. The company is based in Lafayette, the US. We are a distributed team spread across a few time zones. We engage team members in Sri Lanka as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time.

Duties

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python

Who you are

• 1-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills

What we offer

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise
• Paid in USD
• Monthly internet allowance

Candidates must be eligible to work in Sri Lanka.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Immediately.

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