Graduate Backend Developer

Meadowhaven HQ operates consumer websites and apps used by tens of millions of people each month. More than 350 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

Job summary

Meadowhaven HQ is hiring a Graduate Backend Developer to work remotely from Poland. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Remote position. Most of the team is in Warsaw, but nobody is required to come in.

Main duties

• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.

Qualifications

• 0-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.

Salary: PLN 9,900 - PLN 11,500 per month

What you get

• Private medical care.
• Extra annual leave days.
• Remote work allowance.

Start: Immediately.

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